FIS Snowboard World Cup - Big Air Kreischberg 2025: Preview, schedule, and how to watch live
The 2024-25 Big Air season is nearing the business end of the competition. With just two stages left, the battle for the Crystal Globe in the men's and women's fields are too close to call.
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The penultimate round of the 2024-25 FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup takes place this weekend in Kreischberg, Austria, from 9-11 January. The best Big Air athletes will compete for valuable points that will go a long way in determining this season's Crystal Globe winners.
Here's everything you need to know ahead of the competition, including the full schedule and how to watch the action live.
Kreischberg Big Air 2025 World Cup Schedule
All times local (CEST).
9 January
Women's qualification
10 January
Men's qualification
**11 January
**18.00: Snowboard Big Air Finals Men/Women
Athletes to watch at the FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup Kreischberg
Women
Fukada Mari (JPN): 18-year-old Fukada Mari continues to stake her claim as the preeminent talent in women's snowboarding as she leads the World Cup standings with 260 points. The Japanese has racked up three podium finishes from three events, including a superb victory in Chur in October. After finishing second overall in 2023-24, Fukada controls her own destiny heading into the final two events of the season—but she'll need to be on top of her game to ward off Mia Brookes (GBR), who is right on her tail with 245 points.
Regardless of her final position, Fukada has already shown why she's one of Japan's medal favourites for the Big Air competition at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
Mia Brookes (GBR): For those unacquainted with Great Britain's snowboarding phenom Mia Brookes, in 2023, she became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history when she earned slopestyle gold in Georgia, aged just 16. But the Cheshire native is equally adept in Big Air and has piled the pressure on Fukada with back-to-back World Cup wins; her final trick in Klagenfurt last week (a cab 1440 melon) scored her a massive 95.75 to finish ahead of the Japanese and close the gap in the women's standings to just 15 points.
And while she trails Fukada in Big Air, Brookes is second in the slopestyle competition and first in the Overall Park&Pipe category. If she can maintain her form in the closing stages of the World Cup, Brookes will be in line to receive a considerable amount of silverware.
Men
Hasegawa Taiga (JPN): Reigning world champion Hasegawa picked up his second win of the season in Klagenfurt, unravelling a front 1800 indy that netted him 90 points for a total 179.75—the top score of the night that crucially kept him ahead of Italy’s Ian Matteoli, who trails the Japanese by 19 points on the overall season’s standings.
Ian Matteoli (ITA): After an inconsequential 2023-24 campaign where he finished 14th, Matteoli has burst onto the Big Air scene with two podium finishes and a fourth-place result in Chur to kick off his third World Cup season. The 19-year-old Italian made international headlines when he landed the world's first 2160 on a snowboard last February, and looks primed to finish on the final Big Air World Cup podium for the first time this year.
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Fans around the world can tune in to catch all the action live. The event will be streamed on the FIS official website and available through various broadcasters depending on your region.