2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

2023 Women's Overall World Cup
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The women's overall competition in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (9 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (11 races). The fifth and sixth disciplines, parallel (PAR). and Alpine combined (AC), had all events in the 2022–23 season cancelled, either due to the schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic (AC)[1] or due to bad weather (PAR).[2] The original schedule called for 42 races,[3] but in addition to the parallel, two downhills and a super-G were cancelled during the season.[4][5]

The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France, which are located in Les Trois Vallées, from 6–19 February 2023.

Season summary

From the very first race of the season, defending champion (and four-time overall champion) Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States seized the lead in the standings due to her abilities in all four disciplines. After the first thirteen races, she had built over a 300-point lead over 2021 overall champion Petra Vlhová of Slovakia. In addition, with her victory in a slalom at Semmering, Austria on December 29, Shiffrin, 27, became only the third skier (and second woman) to win 80 World Cup races, as well as the first ever to win 50 races in a single discipline.[6]

After 24 races, almost two-thirds of the season, Shiffrin held a lead of over 500 points over Vlhová, with 2016 overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland close behind in third; however, the focus of the moment was on Shiffrin's quest to break Lindsey Vonn's all-time women's record of 82 World Cup victories (which she had already tied) and then Ingemar Stenmark's all-time overall record of 86 such victories.[7] She shattered Vonn's record with victories in back-to-back giant slaloms in Kronplatz on 24-25 January, increasing her overall lead (now with Gut-Behrami in second) to over 600 points.[8]

By the end of January, which was the time for the break for the 2023 World Ski Championships, Shiffrin had 11 wins on the season (1 in super-G and 5 each in giant slalom and slalom) and 85 wins for her career.[9] Shiffrin's fifth-place finish in a downhill at Kvitfjell on 4 March was sufficient to clinch the season championship, although there were still seven races left in the season.[10] The overall title represented Shiffrin's fifth, tying her with Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli, who also won five, and placed her behind only two Austrians: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who won six in the 1970s, and Marcel Hirscher, who won eight in a row in the 2010s.[10]

Shiffrin's later victories in both a giant slalom and a slalom at Åre, Sweden (her sixth of the season in each discipline) enabled her to equal and then break Ingemar Stenmark's all-time overall record of 86 World Cup wins (with 87), as well as tying Vreni Schneider's all-time women's record of 20 giant slalom victories (to go along with her all-time record 53 slalom wins, plus 5 super-Gs, 5 parallels, 3 downhills, and 1 combined).[11][12][13] And to top the season off a week later, Shiffrin won the giant slalom at finals, breaking Schneider's women's career victory record in that discipline with 21 and also breaking Lindsey Vonn's record for career World Cup podiums with 138 (in only her 249th World Cup start).[14]

Indicative of the degree of specialization in the World Cup this season (despite the end of the COVID separation between the speed skiers and the technical skiers) is that Shiffrin was the only skier, male or female, to place in the top 25 in all four disciplines, and only four women and one man even scored points in all four disciplines: Shiffrin, Federica Brignone (#4), Michelle Gisin (#13), and Franziska Gritsch (#23) among the women, and Marco Schwarz (#7) among the men.

Finals

The last events of the season took place at the World Cup finals, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 through Sunday, 19 March 2023 in Soldeu, Andorra. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship in each discipline were eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that any skier who has scored at least 500 points in the overall classification was eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of her standing in that discipline for the season.

Standings

# Skier DH
9 races 		SG
8 races 		GS
10 races 		SL
11 races 		Total
United States Mikaela Shiffrin 221 240 800 945 2,206
2  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami 272 413 532 0 1,217
3 Slovakia Petra Vlhová 9 0 486 630 1,125
4 Italy Federica Brignone 218 368 476 7 1,069
5 Italy Sofia Goggia 740 176 0 0 916
6 Norway  Ragnhild Mowinckel 226 366 311 0 903
7  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 0 74 129 655 858
8 Italy Marta Bassino 34 200 515 0 749
9 Italy Elena Curtoni 308 358 0 0 666
10 Sweden Sara Hector 0 0 393 243 636
11 Slovenia Ilka Štuhec 551 51 0 0 602
12  Switzerland  Corinne Suter 309 259 3 0 571
13  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin 140 198 61 153 552
14 Austria Cornelia Hütter 165 347 0 0 512
15 United States Paula Moltzan 0 0 209 297 506
16 France Tessa Worley 0 172 328 0 500
17 Germany Lena Dürr 0 0 0 493 493
18 Sweden Anna Swenn-Larsson 0 0 0 470 470
19 Austria Mirjam Puchner 273 189 0 0 462
20 Norway  Thea Louise Stjernesund 0 0 236 170 406
21 Slovenia Ana Bucik 0 0 146 259 405
22 Germany Kira Weidle 250 151 0 0 401
23 Austria Franziska Gritsch 3 96 120 172 391
24  Switzerland  Joana Hählen 220 166 0 0 386
25 Canada Valérie Grenier 0 30 354 0 384
26 Norway  Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 246 106 0 0 352
27 Croatia Leona Popović 0 0 0 349 349
28  Switzerland  Jasmine Flury 185 157 0 0 342
29 Austria Nina Ortlieb 229 107 0 0 336
30 Austria Ramona Siebenhofer 111 149 64 0 324
31 New Zealand Alice Robinson 34 72 207 0 313
32 Austria Stephanie Venier 113 163 0 0 276
33 Norway  Mina Fürst Holtmann 0 0 136 127 263
34 Austria Katharina Truppe 0 0 37 222 259
35 United States Breezy Johnson 222 27 0 0 249
36 France Laura Gauché 150 97 0 0 247
37 France Romane Miradoli 82 161 3 0 246
38 Sweden Hanna Aronsson Elfman 0 0 0 240 240
39 Austria Katharina Liensberger 0 0 94 138 232
40 Germany Emma Aicher 48 59 0 110 217
41 Croatia Zrinka Ljutić 0 0 18 190 208
42 Italy Laura Pirovano 136 71 0 0 207
43 Poland Maryna Gasienica-Daniel 0 1 199 0 200
44 Norway  Maria Therese Tviberg 0 0 94 103 197
45  Switzerland  Priska Nufer 139 44 0 0 183
46 United States Isabella Wright 154 22 0 0 176
47 Czech Republic Martina Dubovská 0 0 0 168 168
48 Austria Tamara Tippler 89 71 0 0 160
Austria Ricarda Haaser 0 22 138 0 160
50 Canada Laurence St. Germain 0 0 0 158 158
51 Canada Ali Nullmeyer 0 0 0 156 156
52  Switzerland  Camille Rast 0 0 48 97 145
53 Austria Nicole Schmidhofer 15 120 0 0 135
54 Germany Jessica Hilzinger 0 0 0 133 133
55 Austria Christina Ager 94 29 0 0 123
56 Canada Amelia Smart 0 0 0 117 117
57 Italy Nicol Delago 105 9 0 0 114
58 France Coralie Frasse Sombet 0 0 101 0 101
59  Switzerland  Elena Stoffel 0 0 0 95 95
60  Switzerland  Andrea Ellenberger 0 0 93 0 93
61 Slovenia Neja Dvornik 0 0 22 64 86
62 Austria Stephanie Brunner 0 0 84 0 84
63 France Nastasia Noens 0 0 0 80 80
64 Austria Julia Scheib 0 0 79 0 79
65 Italy Roberta Melesi 0 40 38 0 78
66 Canada Marie-Michèle Gagnon 20 57 0 0 77
67 Austria Katharina Huber 0 0 8 66 74
68 Sweden Estelle Alphand 0 0 71 0 71
69  Switzerland  Mélanie Meillard 0 0 0 70 70
70 United States Nina O'Brien 0 0 68 0 68
71  Switzerland  Nicole Good 0 0 0 67 67
72 Austria Ariane Rädler 44 21 0 0 65
73  Switzerland  Stephanie Jenal 32 32 0 0 64
Germany Andrea Filser 0 0 0 64 64
 Switzerland  Aline Danioth 0 0 0 64 64
76 Italy Marta Rossetti 0 0 0 61 61
77 Austria Elizabeth Kappaurer 0 0 60 0 60
78 Albania  Lara Colturi 0 0 53 6 59
79  Switzerland  Delia Durrer 48 7 0 0 55
80  Switzerland  Juliana Suter 27 24 0 0 51
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2023, after all 38 events and 4 cancellations[1]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Bentley, Leann (6 November 2022). "Men's and Women's Parallel Events in Lech/Zürs Canceled". US Ski and Snowboard. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. ^ "FIS Alpine Skiing – Calendar Women" (PDF). fis-ski.com. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  4. ^ Associated Press (25 October 2022). "Matterhorn Alpine skiing World Cup downhills canceled". NBC Sports. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  5. ^ Associated Press (25 February 2023). "Women's World Cup downhill canceled after fog delays". Washington Times. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  6. ^ Olympic Talk (29 December 2022). "Mikaela Shiffrin gets 80th World Cup win, 50th slalom win, can reach Vonn record next week". NBC Sports. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  7. ^ Associated Press (22 January 2023). "Ragnhild Mowinckel wins Cortina super-G; Mikaela Shiffrin's record chase moves on". NBC Sports. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  8. ^ Associated Press (25 January 2023). "Mikaela Shiffrin adds to record total with 84th win in another GS". Boston.com. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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