2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

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]

2023 Women's Overall World Cup
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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

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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

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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

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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "CUP STANDINGS WORLD CUP Season 2023 Women Overall". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  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.
  9. ^ AFP (29 January 2023). "Shiffrin misses chance to equal all-time record as Duerr wins slalom". MSN.com. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  10. ^ a b Guardian sport (4 March 2023). "Shiffrin misses out on record-tying win but clinches fifth overall World Cup title". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  11. ^ Agencies (10 March 2023). "Mikaela Shiffrin surges into history with record-tying 86th World Cup win". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  12. ^ OlympicTalk (11 March 2023). "Mikaela Shiffrin breaks Alpine skiing World Cup wins record". NBC Sports. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  13. ^ Bachman, Rachel (11 March 2023). "'Mikaela Shiffrin Becomes Winningest Alpine Skier Ever, Male or Female". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  14. ^ OlympicTalk (19 March 2023). "Mikaela Shiffrin finishes World Cup with one more win, two more records and a revelation". NBC Sports. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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