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French prodigies win world junior speed ski championships

The world championship for junior klists, which took place this Friday, March 21, 2025, was marked by the victories of two French youngsters. On the women’s side, 20-year-old Pauline Sabatut, from the Pyrenees, secured her victory with a run at 170.51 kph. For her, it was a fine end-of-season achievement, but above all the culmination of several years’ training, combining physical preparation, mental work and video analysis of her performances. Having skied at speed since the age of 13, she sees this title as a crowning achievement and a further motivation to move up to the S1 category, while retaining the pleasure of skiing.

On the men’s side, Enzo Vita, a 17-year-old Risoulin novice in the world of speed skiing, struggled to achieve his feat, but has no intention of stopping there. Determined, he intends to return next season to defend his title and continue his progress.

Italians Simone Origone and Valentina Greggio triumph this season

Simone Orig one wins his 16th Crystal Globe today, marking 20 years of an exceptional career. With 5 victories on the 7 stages of the 2025 circuit, he is ahead of France’s Bastien Montès and Simon Billy, 2024 world champion and world speed ski record holder. Meanwhile, Valentina Greggio wins her 7th Crystal Globe after dominating the entire 2025 season. The world’s fastest skier to date, she now totals 51 World Cup victories and 72 podiums since her debut in 2014.

Category S1 – Italian leaders impose their domination

Once again, Italy’s Valentina Greggio broke all records, always several kilometers ahead of her rivals, France’s Cléa Martinez and Sweden’s Agnès Abrahamsson. On the men’s side, Italy also dominated with Simone Origone in the lead, although the gap was tighter with France’s Simon Billy, Bastien Montes and the Czech Republic’s Palan Radim.

S2J category – young French talents shine on the podiums

In the young speed ski prodigy category, the French shine on the podium with Risoul locals Enzo Vita and Andrea Beligni, alongside Clément Sol and Canadian Eaton Frederik. On the women’s podium, Frenchwoman Pauline Sabatut was joined by Sweden’s Villemo Andersson and Amanda Ribbegardh.

S2 category – battle at the top

Czech Petr Koudela topped the men’s podium, followed by Sweden’s Vojtech Sedlak and Canada’s Michael Schneider. In the women’s category, Ludivine Toche came out on top, several kilometers ahead of her French rival Mareva Claud Lapique.