What is a Crystal Globe?
The Crystal Globe is the trophy of the FIS World Cup — awarded since the circuit began in the 1966–67 season. The large globe goes to the overall points champion of a season; small globes go to the winners of each individual discipline: downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom in alpine skiing, and the equivalent discipline standings in cross-country, ski jumping, freestyle and snowboard.[1] [2]
How is it won?
By points, across a whole winter. The top thirty finishers in each World Cup race score on a fixed scale — 100 for a win down to 1 for thirtieth — and the globes go to whoever accumulates the most by the World Cup Finals in March. A season runs to some forty races across a dozen countries, so the globe rewards durability and range in a way a single championship race cannot.[2] [3]
Recent winners
In 2025–26, Marco Odermatt won a fifth consecutive men's overall globe, and Mikaela Shiffrin a record-equalling sixth women's overall title — matching Annemarie Moser-Pröll — finishing 1,410 points clear of Emma Aicher in a season that also carried her past 100 career World Cup wins.[3] [4]
Why does it matter?
Because in skiing the World Cup is the professional season and the globe is its title. World championship and Olympic golds are won on a single day; a Crystal Globe records who was best across an entire winter, on the same published points system used to seed every race in the sport.[1] [2]
References
- FIS — Alpine Ski World Cup. Accessed August 2026.
- FIS — World Cup rules and points. Accessed August 2026.
- FIS — record-equalling sixth overall title caps Shiffrin's season. Accessed August 2026.
- Olympics.com — Alpine Ski World Cup 2025-26 standings. Accessed August 2026.