U.S. Ski Team Announces Pairs For Team Combined Event

The Stifel U.S. Ski Team has announced the 12 skiers who will compete in the brand new team combined event debuting at the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships Feb. 11-12.

The Stifel U.S. Ski Team has a data-driven selection criteria for the team combined, which includes matching the top downhill skier with the top slalom skier based off of season-best results, then moving down the list of athletes to create four potential teams.

Highlighting the team will be the newly crowned 2025 downhill World Champion Breezy Johnson who will be paired with the most successful alpine skier in the modern era of World Championships, Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin, who has 14 World Championships medals to her name, is returning from a brutal injury that left her sidelined from competition the past two months. Both Shiffrin and Johnson will look to add to their medal count this week.

Headlining the men’s side will be super-G Olympic silver medalist Ryan Cochran-Siegle and slalom specialist Ben Ritchie. Cochran-Siegle is a consistent force in the downhill discipline and Ritchie has shown consistency and speed in slalom this season.

“I think it will be really cool to have this experience with another teammate,” said Cochran-Siegle. “Skiing is a very individual sport but we also spend so much time as a team working together, so being at the bottom and cheering on your teammate will be really unique.”

The event consists of two runs: a downhill and a slalom run. The fastest combined time from both the downhill and slalom wins the event. The rules outline that a maximum of four teams with two competitors can compete. The teams are formed by athletes of the same nation and same gender. No changes to the pairs can be made after the draw of the race is complete. The combined time results will dictate the winners of the event - the prize money will also be divided equally among the pair.

“We are very excited about this new combined event,” said Chief of Sport Anouk Patty. “These pairs are an extremely talented group of skiers and together they will be unstoppable.”

TEAM COMBINED PAIRS (name, discipline)

Women’s Teams
USA Team 1: Breezy Johnson (downhill) & Mikaela Shiffrin (slalom)
USA Team 2: Lauren Macuga (downhill) & Paula Moltzan (slalom)
USA Team 3: Lindsey Vonn (downhill) & AJ Hurt (slalom)
USA Team 4: Jackie Wiles (downhill) & Katie Hensien (slalom)