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2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill

The men's downhill competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eleven events, including the season finale in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

2016 Men's downhill World Cup
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Two-time discipline champion Aksel Lund Svindal from Norway got off to a fantastic start, winning four of the first five downhills of the season . . . and even winning the downhill run on the Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland for the first time in his career (in his tenth attempt).[1] Unfortunately, in the very next downhill race a week later, at the Streif downhill run in Kitzbühel (where Svindal had won a Super-G two days before), Svindal crashed and suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in his right knee, ending his season.[2] Because of poor visibility and dangerous winds, which already had led the course to be shortened before the race even started, the Streif downhill was stopped after just 30 skiers, the minimum number for the race to be deemed official -- but it already had produced three serious crashes among the best downhillers in the world.[2][3]

However, the surprise winner on the Streif was Peter Fill of Italy, who had started the day 245 points behind Svindal but picked up 100 for the win.[4] After four more downhills, and heading into the finals, Fill and Svindal were tied on points (436) with Italy's Dominik Paris only four points behind.[5] In the finals at St. Moritz, although both skied cautiously, Fill placed tenth, scoring 26 points, but Paris finished nineteenth and failed to score any points (as only the top 15 score at the finals), thus allowing Fill to become the first ever Italian man to win the downhill crystal globe.[6]

Standings edit

Rank Name
28 Nov 2015
Lake Louise

 
4 Dec 2015
Beaver Creek

 
 
29 Dec 2015
Santa Caterina

 
16 Jan 2016
Wengen

   
23 Jan 2016
Kitzbühel

 
 
6 Feb 2016
Jeongseon

 
20 Feb 2016
Chamonix

 
12 Mar 2016
Kvitfjell

 
16 Mar 2016
St. Moritz

    		Total
    Peter Fill 80 32 50 DNF 29 100 24 50 45 26 26 462
2    Aksel Lund Svindal 100 100 100 36 100 DNF DNS 436
3   Dominik Paris 36 11 20 0 50 15 20 80 100 100 0 432
   Kjetil Jansrud 29 80 60 4 22 18 14 100 10 45 50 432
5     Beat Feuz DNS 24 80 60 45 60 45 100 414
6   Steven Nyman 15 16 29 5 15 DNF 26 60 80 60 80 386
7   Adrien Théaux 24 26 6 100 36 32 45 32 40 29 0 370
8   Guillermo Fayed 50 60 80 29 9 10 9 26 50 DNS 323
9     Carlo Janka 45 45 7 22 32 60 5 36 8 20 32 312
10   Hannes Reichelt 13 50 5 80 80 DNF DNF 22 26 0 20 296
11   Travis Ganong 60 22 20 14 0 13 40 9 DNS 32 40 250
12   Erik Guay 26 24 45 DNS 18 24 DNF 3 32 15 60 247
  Christof Innerhofer 22 36 0 50 45 12 50 10 1 5 16 247
   Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 16 15 DNF DNF 16 40 100 DNF 24 36 0 247
15   Johan Clarey 20 9 24 15 8 50 DNF 16 22 26 45 235
16   Romed Baumann 12 0 15 45 14 22 15 29 11 14 22 199
17   Boštjan Kline 7 4 0 9 7 8 80 24 14 8 24 185
18   Vincent Kriechmayr 1 18 36 40 13 36 0 2 5 2 29 182
19   David Poisson 4 0 0 60 40 29 16 14 3 7 DNS 173
20   Valentin Giraud Moine 0 DNS 16 8 0 DNS DNF 13 18 80 36 171
21   Manuel Osborne-Paradis 1 0 22 DNF 0 16 10 0 36 50 18 153
22   Andrew Weibrecht 7 45 14 DNF 10 20 14 15 13 11 0 149
23   Klaus Kröll 18 3 13 12 60 DNF 1 7 15 16 0 145
24   Otmar Striedinger 3 20 1 13 12 26 3 40 20 DNF 0 138
25   Andreas Sander 0 0 8 26 20 14 32 4 7 22 0 133
References [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNF = Did Not Finish
  • DNS = Did Not Start
  • Updated at 19 March 2016, after all events.[18]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Associated Press (16 January 2016). "Aksel Lund Svindal captures elusive World Cup downhill win at Lauberhorn". CBC. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b Zaccardi, Nick (23 January 2016). "Aksel Lund Svindal crashes hard, tears ACL". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. ^ Willemsen, Eric (23 January 2016). "Skiing: World Cup leader Svindal blows out knee in downhill crash". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. ^ Associated Press (23 January 2016). "Kitzbuehel races: Peter Fill wins abbreviated Kitzbuehel downhill race". CBC. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  5. ^ AFP (12 March 2016). "Paris wins downhill as Fill misses out". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  6. ^ Hodgetts, Rob (16 March 2016). "FIS Alpine World Cup: Peter Fill wins downhill shootout in St. Moritz". CNN. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lake Louise Men DH (CAN)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  8. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Beaver Creek Men DH (USA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  9. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val Gardena/Gröden Men DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  10. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Santa Caterina Men DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  11. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Wengen Men DH (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  12. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kitzbühel Men DH (AUT)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  13. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Garmisch-Partenkirchen Men DH (GER)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  14. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Jeongseon Men DH (KOR)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  15. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Chamonix Men DH (FRA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  16. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kvitfjell Men DH (NOR)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  17. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup St. Moritz Men DH (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  18. ^ "CUP STANDINGS - ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP 2016". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

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