The classic races: Kitzbuehel, Wengen, Holmenkollen, the Vasaloppet and more.

Status on 24 October 2026

Every race on this page has finished its 2026 edition (or its 2025-26 edition, for the Four Hills and the Tour de Ski). The 2026-27 editions are upcoming. FIS's Nordic calendar puts Holmenkollen on 12 to 14 March 2027, and the Tour de Ski starts at Les Rousses, France, on 1 January 2027. The 2027 dates for Kitzbuehel and Wengen were not recorded in the research, because the text of FIS's alpine calendar documents came out jumbled when extracted, and the 2027 Vasaloppet date was not collected. See the 2026-27 season for the calendar as far as it is known.

Hahnenkamm, Kitzbuehel (23 to 25 January 2026)

FIS's downhill report confirms that Odermatt won the super-G the day before. A search summary of FIS's super-G report adds that it was his first win on the Streif and his 17th World Cup super-G win; those two details are unconfirmed. Feller's slalom win is recorded in a FIS article of 6 July 2026, headlined as Kitzbuehel honouring him with a personal gondola.

The Kitzbueheler Ski Club, which organises the Hahnenkamm, has written about the origins of alpine racing itself: in a 2017 article it dates the agreement at Oslo that let downhill and slalom races be organised under FIS to 26 February 1930, and says a copy of the first 1930 downhill and slalom rulebook, long thought lost, was found by Raoul Imseng in a supplement to an old edition of the Swiss yearbook Der Schneehase. That history is on alpine skiing and the Olympics.

Lauberhorn, Wengen (16 to 17 January 2026)

FIS says Odermatt became the first skier to win four World Cup downhills at Wengen in the race's 59-year history, passing Beat Feuz and Franz Klammer. Franzoni's super-G win rests on a search summary of a FIS report, so it is unconfirmed. Franzoni went on to win the downhill at Kitzbuehel a week later and Olympic downhill silver in February (see Milano Cortina 2026).

Holmenkollen, Oslo (14 March 2026)

All three were on Saturday 14 March 2026. FIS reported that Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo was absent from the men's 50 km after a head injury from a fall at Drammen. The ski jumping result is from FIS's official results list.

Where Holmenkollen came from. The Norwegian encyclopedia Store norske leksikon (SNL) says the Husebyrennet, held from 1879 to 1891, was the forerunner of the Holmenkollen races, and that the event moved to the Holmenkollbakken hill in 1892. SNL says Skiforeningen, founded on 4 January 1883, ran the Husebyrennet from 1883 and the Holmenkollen races from 1892 to 2018, gave up ownership of the organising company in autumn 2018, and that Norges Skiforbund, the Norwegian Ski Federation, took over responsibility in 2018. SNL says women first raced at Holmenkollen in a 10 km cross-country race in 1954, over 5 km from 1966, and in ski jumping from 2000.

Vasaloppet (1 March 2026)

The 102nd Vasaloppet was held on Sunday 1 March 2026 over 90 km from Berga by, Salen, to Mora. The results are the organiser's.

ISHA's compiled timeline dates the founding of the Vasaloppet to 1922 and says it commemorates an episode of 1521 to 1522 involving Gustav Vasa, ski troops and two men from Mora, citing Nikkila (1960).

Four Hills, Tour de Ski and Planica (2025-26)

• Four Hills Tournament: the title of a FIS video says Domen Prevc (SLO) took the golden eagle, presented at Bischofshofen on 6 January 2026. Only the video title was seen, so this is unconfirmed. The four stops are Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen.
• Tour de Ski: Jessie Diggins (USA) won the women's Tour, her third. FIS's season review implies that Klaebo won the men's Tour without naming him, so that is unconfirmed. For 2026-27 the Tour starts at Les Rousses on 1 January 2027, its first French stop, goes on to Oberstdorf and finishes with the final climb of the Alpe Cermis in Val di Fiemme (FIS, 11 May 2026).
• Planica, March 2026: a search summary of FIS's report says Marius Lindvik (NOR) won the season's final individual ski flying event; that is unconfirmed. The report's headline says Kamil Stoch and Manuel Fettner retired there. Planica closes the 2026-27 ski jumping season at the end of March 2027, per FIS's calendar.

The Arlberg-Kandahar: one origin, two dates

ISHA's compiled timeline says Arnold Lunn co-founded the Arlberg-Kandahar race. The date of the first race is given two ways: 31 March to 1 April 1928 at St Anton, in ISHA's timeline (citing Lunn, 1952, and Amski, 1966), or 3 to 4 March 1928, in a snow-forecast.com article and in Wikipedia, both seen only as search summaries. We could not settle which is right.

The season-long standings these races count towards are on World Cup 2025-26.