Copper Halfpipe World Cup – Women
● Eileen Gu (CHN) won the first 2025/26 Halfpipe World Cup event in Secret Garden ahead of Zoe Atkin (GBR) in second and Indra Brown (AUS) in third.
● Eileen Gu (CHN), the reigning Olympic champion, is the most successful Halfpipe World Cup athlete. She has recorded 15 wins, 17 podiums and 18 top-10 results from the 18 World Cup events she has contested. Gu has two Halfpipe Crystal Globes.
● Eileen Gu (CHN) has won the last six consecutive Halfpipe World Cup events she has contested.
● Eileen Gu’s (CHN) win in Secret Garden allowed her to take the lead for most overall Freeski Park & Pipe World Cup victories with 19. Gu has 15 wins in Halfpipe and three in Slopestyle. Tess Ledeux (FRA, 17) has recorded 13 wins in Slopestyle and four wins in Big Air.
● Eileen Gu’s (CHN) top-three finish in Secret Gardens puts her atop the all-time list for the most Halfpipe World Cup podiums with 17. Rachel Karker (CAN) has one less.
● Eileen Gu (CHN) won last year’s Copper event ahead of Zoe Atkin (GBR) in second and Cassie Sharpe (CAN) in third.
● Eileen Gu’s (CHN) has been the most successful women’s skier in Copper, winning here three times to date: 2021/22, 2023/24, 2024/25. Brita Sigourney (USA) and Marie Martinod (FRA) have two wins each.
● Zoe Atkin (GBR) is the current Halfpipe World Champion and last season’s joint Crystal Globe winner. Secret Garden was Atkin’s 11th Halfpipe World Cup podium; she needs one more to join Virginie Faivre (SUI) and Brita Sigourney (USA) in fifth place on the all-time list of most World Cup podiums.
● Zoe Atkin (GBR) finished within the top 10 in 19 of her 20 Halfpipe World Cup starts. Her worst result was 14th place in her first World Cup debut in Copper during the 2018/19 season.
● Zoe Atkin (GBR) shared her 2024/25 Halfpipe Crystal Globe with Li Fanghui, as both athletes finished the World Cup season with a victory, two second place finishes, and fifth place result. The best four Halfpipe World Cup results of an athlete’s season count towards their end-of-season ranking. It was the first time in FIS Freeski history that two athletes ended up in an unbreakable tie for the Crystal Globe.
● Indra Brown (AUS) claimed a podium spot in Secret Garden in her first-ever Halfpipe World Cup start. At 15 years of age, Brown became the youngest Australian ever to secure a World Cup podium finish.
● Indra Brown’s Secret Garden result is the fifth Halfpipe World Cup podium finish for Australia, men or women. Two of the four previous podiums belong to Davina Williams (second in Apex in February 2007 and torrid in Inawashiro in February 2008) and Amy Sheehan (two third-place finishes in Calgary and Breckenridge in 2013/14).
● Amy Fraser (CAN) finished fourth in Secret Garden. This is her 18th consecutive Halfpipe World Cup top-10 finish since Calgary in December 2021, which is also the longest running streak for top-10 results.
● Team USA have not recorded a win in the nine most recent Copper Halfpipe World Cup events. The last U.S. skier to win here was Brita Sigourney in December 2013.
● Brita Sigourney is also the last U.S. athlete to record a Halfpipe World Cup win on home snow, at Mammoth Mountain in 2017/18.
