Premiere of new Mixed Competition: Congress confirms introduction of new discipline for World Cup and World Championships 2025

Lake Placid (FIL/14 June 2024) At the request of the FIL Sports Commission, the 72nd FIL Congress 2024 in Lake Placid voted in favor of the introduction of a new FIL race series for the World Cup and World Championships 2025 in Whistler.

In the 2024/2025 season, the Sprint World Cup will be replaced by the new "Mixed World Cup" as a test.

In the Mixed World Cup, a man and a woman will compete in the singles and, respectively, a men's and women's doubles team will compete in a separate mixed relay. Each discipline uses its usual starting height. The first sled starts as usual in its event, the second sled starts after the athlete of the first sled touches the pad at the finish line. The gate for the second sled will open automatically as in the Team Relay. The touchpad at the finish should have a different shape than in the team relay.

For the first time, mixed teams of two nations are allowed if they cannot field a mixed team of their own.

Premiere for Mixed Singles and Mixed Doubles 2024/2025

The premiere of the Mixed World Cup will take place during the first EBERSPAECHER World Cup of the 2024/2025 season from November 30 to December 1, 2024 in Lillehammer, Norway. Two more Mixed World Cups in the disciplines Singles and Doubles will follow. The second Mixed Singles and Mixed Doubles World Cup will be held in Altenberg (Germany) on January 11 and 12, 2025, and the third and final Mixed World Cup will take place at the 8th EBERSPAECHER World Cup in PyeongChang, Korea, from February 15 to 16, 2025.

The Mixed World Championships will make their debut as a Mixed Singles and Mixed Doubles event at the 53rd FIL World Championships in Whistler, Canada, on February 7 and 8, 2025. The Mixed World Championships will thus replace the Sprint World Championships for the first time, which were introduced as a test event at the 46th FIL World Championships in Königssee, Germany, in 2016. The first Sprint World Champions to be entered in the history books were Martina Kocher (SUI), Felix Loch (GER) and Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt (GER).