2012–13 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The 47th World Cup season began on 27 October 2012, in Sölden, Austria, and concluded on 17 March 2013, at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.[1][2] The overall titles were won by Marcel Hirscher of Austria and Tina Maze of Slovenia.

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13
Discipline Men Women
Overall Austria Marcel Hirscher Slovenia Tina Maze
Downhill Norway Aksel Lund Svindal United States Lindsey Vonn
Super-G Norway Aksel Lund Svindal Slovenia Tina Maze
Giant slalom United States Ted Ligety Slovenia Tina Maze
Slalom Austria Marcel Hirscher United States Mikaela Shiffrin
Nations Cup Austria Austria Austria Austria
Nations Cup Overall Austria Austria
Competition
Locations 19 20
Individual 34 35
Mixed 1 1
Cancelled 2 2
Rescheduled 1
2013 World Cup Champions
Marcel Hirscher won the overall title for the second successive year, the first man to do so since Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003.
Tina Maze became the first Slovenian to win an overall World Cup title, and the first skier to score more than 2,000 points in a season.

A break in the schedule was for the biennial World Championships, held 4–17 February in Schladming, Austria. Changes for the 2013 season included the awarding of World Cup points for the slalom crystal globe for the limited field city events (parallel slalom),[3] not just in the overall standings. Also, a crystal globe trophy was no longer awarded for the combined event, as many organizers considered the event difficult to market,[4] but its results still counted in the overall rankings.[5]

Maze became the first Slovenian to win an overall World Cup title; she clinched it on 24 February after her eighth victory of the season, a super-combined race at Méribel, France.[6] Her victory in a downhill race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany on 2 March gave her wins in all five disciplines for the season, and she became the first racer in World Cup history to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.[7] The previous record of 2,000 points was held by Hermann Maier, set during the 2000 season.[8]

Maze broke various statistical records in this season, including the highest number of podiums in a season (24, record previously held by Maier (22) and by Hanni Wenzel and Pernilla Wiberg for ladies (18)), highest number of top 5 finishes (31, previously Maier and Wiberg (24)), highest number of points after first 10 races (677, previously Katja Seizinger, 643), largest percent of possible points won (69%, previously 61% by Wiberg), and the highest margin over the runner-up (1313, compared to 743 for Maier and 578 for Lindsey Vonn).[9] Maze finished on podium in all giant slalom events, previously achieved only by Vreni Schneider in 1989. She is also the first woman to remain at the top of the overall standings throughout the season - a feat previously achieved only by Bode Miller in 2005.[9] In addition to the overall title, Maze won the super-G and giant slalom titles, finished at the top of the combined list by winning both races in the season, and finished second in the downhill and slalom. Those titles went respectively to two Americans, Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin.[5] Vonn's season ended with a knee injury on 5 February at the World Championships, but she held on to win the downhill title by a single point after the final race was cancelled. Three days after turning 18, Shiffrin won the final slalom race at Lenzerheide on 16 March to overtake Maze and win that discipline's season title by 33 points.

The men's overall title wasn't decided until the World Cup finals at Lenzerheide. A runner-up finish in the giant slalom on 16 March gave Hirscher his second consecutive overall title, the first male to achieve this feat since Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003.[10] Hirscher also won the slalom title, while the downhill and super-G titles went to Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, the sixth and seventh discipline titles for the former two-time overall champion. The giant slalom title went to American Ted Ligety, who won six of the eight GS races for his fourth season title in that discipline.[11]

Calendar

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Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, KB – Classic Combined, SC – Super combined, CE – City Event (Parallel)[12]
Race Season Date Place Type Winner Second Third Details
1488 1 28 October 2012     Sölden GS 356    Ted Ligety   Manfred Mölgg   Marcel Hirscher [1]
1489 2 11 November 2012     Levi SL 422    André Myhrer   Marcel Hirscher   Jens Byggmark [2]
1490 3 24 November 2012     Lake Louise DH 425    Aksel Lund Svindal   Max Franz   Marco Sullivan
  Klaus Kröll
[3]
1491 4 25 November 2012   SG 167    Aksel Lund Svindal   Adrien Théaux   Joachim Puchner [4]
1492 5 30 November 2012     Beaver Creek DH 426    Christof Innerhofer   Aksel Lund Svindal   Kjetil Jansrud [5]
1493 6 1 December 2012   SG 168    Matteo Marsaglia   Aksel Lund Svindal   Hannes Reichelt [6]
1494 7 2 December 2012   GS 357    Ted Ligety   Marcel Hirscher   Davide Simoncelli [7]
1495 8 8 December 2012     Val-d'Isère SL 423    Alexis Pinturault   Felix Neureuther   Marcel Hirscher [8]
1496 9 9 December 2012   GS 358    Marcel Hirscher   Stefan Luitz   Ted Ligety [9]
1497 10 14 December 2012     Val Gardena SG 169    Aksel Lund Svindal   Matteo Marsaglia   Werner Heel [10]
1498 11 15 December 2012   DH 427    Steven Nyman   Rok Perko   Erik Guay [11]
1499 12 16 December 2012     Alta Badia GS 359    Ted Ligety   Marcel Hirscher   Thomas Fanara [12]
1500 13 18 December 2012     Madonna di Campiglio SL 424    Marcel Hirscher   Felix Neureuther   Naoki Yuasa [13]
1501 14 29 December 2012     Bormio DH 428    Hannes Reichelt
  Dominik Paris
  Aksel Lund Svindal [14]
1502 15 1 January 2013     Munich CE 003    Felix Neureuther   Marcel Hirscher   Alexis Pinturault [15]
1503 16 6 January 2013     Zagreb SL 425    Marcel Hirscher   André Myhrer   Mario Matt [16]
1504 17 12 January 2013     Adelboden GS 360    Ted Ligety   Fritz Dopfer   Felix Neureuther [17]
1505 18 13 January 2013   SL 426    Marcel Hirscher   Mario Matt   Manfred Mölgg [18]
1506 19 18 January 2013     Wengen SC 117    Alexis Pinturault   Ivica Kostelić     Carlo Janka [19]
1507 20 19 January 2013   DH 429    Christof Innerhofer   Klaus Kröll   Hannes Reichelt [20]
1508 21 20 January 2013   SL 427    Felix Neureuther   Marcel Hirscher   Ivica Kostelić [21]
1509 22 25 January 2013     Kitzbühel SG 170    Aksel Lund Svindal   Matthias Mayer   Christof Innerhofer [22]
1510 23 26 January 2013   DH 430    Dominik Paris   Erik Guay   Hannes Reichelt [23]
1511 24 27 January 2013   SL 428    Marcel Hirscher   Felix Neureuther   Ivica Kostelić [24]
1512 25 27 January 2013   KB 118    Ivica Kostelić   Alexis Pinturault   Thomas Mermillod-Blondin [25]
1513 26 29 January 2013     Moscow CE 004    Marcel Hirscher   André Myhrer   Ivica Kostelić [26]
2013 World Championships (5–17 February)
1514 27 23 February 2013     Garmisch-Partenkirchen DH 431    Christof Innerhofer   Georg Streitberger   Klaus Kröll [27]
1515 28 24 February 2013   GS 361    Alexis Pinturault   Marcel Hirscher   Ted Ligety [28]
1516 29 2 March 2013     Kvitfjell DH 432    Adrien Théaux   Aksel Lund Svindal   Klaus Kröll [29]
1517 30 3 March 2013   SG 171    Aksel Lund Svindal   Georg Streitberger   Werner Heel [30]
1518 31 9 March 2013     Kranjska Gora GS 362    Ted Ligety   Marcel Hirscher   Alexis Pinturault [31]
1519 32 10 March 2013   SL 429    Ivica Kostelić   Marcel Hirscher   Mario Matt [32]
13 March 2013     Lenzerheide DH cnx  fog
14 March 2013   SG cnx  strong winds
1520 33 16 March 2013   GS 363    Ted Ligety   Marcel Hirscher   Alexis Pinturault [33]
1521 34 17 March 2013   SL 430    Felix Neureuther   Marcel Hirscher   Ivica Kostelić [34]

Ladies

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Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, SC – Super combined, CE – City Event (Parallel)[13]
Race Season Date Place Type Winner Second Third Details
1388 1 27 October 2012     Sölden GS 355    Tina Maze   Kathrin Zettel   Stefanie Köhle [35]
1389 2 10 November 2012     Levi SL 401    Maria Höfl-Riesch   Tanja Poutiainen   Mikaela Shiffrin [36]
1390 3 24 November 2012     Aspen GS 356    Tina Maze   Kathrin Zettel   Viktoria Rebensburg [37]
1391 4 25 November 2012   SL 402    Kathrin Zettel   Marlies Schild   Tina Maze [38]
1392 5 30 November 2012     Lake Louise DH 353    Lindsey Vonn   Stacey Cook   Maria Höfl-Riesch
  Tina Weirather
[39]
1393 6 1 December 2012   DH 354    Lindsey Vonn   Stacey Cook     Marianne Kaufmann-Abderhalden [40]
1394 7 2 December 2012   SG 185    Lindsey Vonn   Julia Mancuso   Anna Fenninger [41]
1395 8 7 December 2012     St. Moritz SC 092    Tina Maze   Nicole Hosp   Kathrin Zettel [42]
1396 9 8 December 2012   SG 186    Lindsey Vonn   Tina Maze   Julia Mancuso [43]
1397 10 9 December 2012   GS 357    Tina Maze   Viktoria Rebensburg   Tessa Worley [44]
1398 11 14 December 2012     Val-d'Isère DH 355      Lara Gut   Leanne Smith     Nadja Kamer [45]
15 December 2012   SG cnx  heavy snow; replaced in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 1 March 2013[14]
1399 12 16 December 2012     Courchevel GS 358    Tina Maze   Kathrin Zettel   Tessa Worley [46]
1400 13 19 December 2012     Åre GS 359    Viktoria Rebensburg   Anna Fenninger   Tina Maze [47]
1401 14 20 December 2012   SL 403    Mikaela Shiffrin   Frida Hansdotter   Tina Maze [48]
1402 15 28 December 2012     Semmering GS 360    Anna Fenninger   Tina Maze   Tessa Worley [49]
1403 16 29 December 2012   SL 404    Veronika Velez-Zuzulová   Kathrin Zettel   Tina Maze [50]
1404 17 1 January 2013     Munich CE 003    Veronika Velez-Zuzulová   Tina Maze   Michaela Kirchgasser [51]
1405 18 4 January 2013     Zagreb SL 405    Mikaela Shiffrin   Frida Hansdotter   Erin Mielzynski [52]
1406 19 12 January 2013     St. Anton DH 356    Alice McKennis   Daniela Merighetti   Anna Fenninger [53]
1407 20 13 January 2013   SG 187    Tina Maze   Anna Fenninger     Fabienne Suter [54]
1408 21 15 January 2013     Flachau SL 406    Mikaela Shiffrin   Frida Hansdotter   Tanja Poutiainen [55]
1409 22 19 January 2013     Cortina d'Ampezzo DH 357    Lindsey Vonn   Tina Maze   Leanne Smith [56]
1410 23 20 January 2013   SG 188    Viktoria Rebensburg   Nicole Schmidhofer   Tina Maze [57]
1411 24 26 January 2013     Maribor GS 361    Lindsey Vonn   Tina Maze   Anna Fenninger [58]
1412 25 27 January 2013   SL 407    Tina Maze   Frida Hansdotter   Kathrin Zettel [59]
1413 26 29 January 2013     Moscow CE 004    Lena Dürr   Veronika Velez-Zuzulová   Mikaela Shiffrin [60]
2013 World Championships (5–17 February)
1414 27 23 February 2013     Méribel DH 358    Carolina Ruiz Castillo   Maria Höfl-Riesch   Marie Marchand-Arvier [61]
1415 28 24 February 2013   SC 093    Tina Maze   Nicole Hosp   Michaela Kirchgasser [62]
1416 29 [nb 1]1 March 2013     Garmisch-Partenkirchen SG 189    Tina Weirather   Tina Maze
  Julia Mancuso
[63]
1417 30 2 March 2013   DH 359    Tina Maze   Laurenne Ross   Maria Höfl-Riesch [64]
1418 31 3 March 2013   SG 190    Anna Fenninger   Maria Höfl-Riesch   Julia Mancuso [65]
1419 32 9 March 2013     Ofterschwang GS 362    Anna Fenninger   Tina Maze   Viktoria Rebensburg [66]
1420 33 10 March 2013   SL 408    Tina Maze     Wendy Holdener   Mikaela Shiffrin [67]
13 March 2013     Lenzerheide DH cnx  fog
14 March 2013   SG cnx  strong winds
1421 34 16 March 2013   SL 409    Mikaela Shiffrin   Bernadette Schild   Tina Maze [68]
1422 35 17 March 2013   GS 363    Tina Maze   Tessa Worley     Lara Gut [69]

Nation team event

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Event key: PG – Parallel giant slalom
Race Season Date Place Type Winner Second Third Details
7 1 15 March 2013     Lenzerheide PG 004    Germany
Lena Dürr
Veronique Hronek
Viktoria Rebensburg
Fritz Dopfer
Felix Neureuther
  Sweden
Therese Borssén
Frida Hansdotter
Maria Pietilä Holmner
Jens Byggmark
Mattias Hargin
André Myhrer
  Italy
Elena Curtoni
Denise Karbon
Daniela Merighetti
Cristian Deville
Stefano Gross
Davide Simoncelli
[70]

Men's standings

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Ladies' standings

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Nations Cup

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Super giant slalom from Val-d'Isère was rescheduled to Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 1 March 2013[14]
  2. ^ a b Crystal globes were not officially awarded in the discipline, in 2013.

References

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  1. ^ "Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13: Men" (PDF). FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Fédération Internationale de Ski. 29 May 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13: Ladies" (PDF). FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Fédération Internationale de Ski. 29 May 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  3. ^ "World Cup City Events Get Slalom Ranking Points". Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Skiing plans to revive Alpine super-combined event". Archived from the original on 18 March 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  5. ^ a b "FIS-Ski - Cup Standings". Archived from the original on 21 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  6. ^ "Maze wins overall World Cup". Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo!. Reuters. 24 February 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Maze wins Garmisch downhill and breaks 2,000 points". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 2 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  8. ^ New York Daily News, "Tina Maze is the Slovenian beauty who'll be Lindsey Vonn's biggest adversary at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014", Nathaniel Vinton, 16 March 2013.
  9. ^ a b Vsi rekordi in obrazi Tine Maze :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija
  10. ^ "FIS-Ski - FIS World Cup". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  11. ^ "FIS-Ski - Cup Standings". Archived from the original on 17 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  12. ^ "FIS: Alpine World Cup 2013 men's schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  13. ^ "FIS: Alpine World Cup 2013 ladies' schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  14. ^ a b "Audi FIS Ski World Cup 2012/13: Official Communications". FIS-Ski.com. International Ski Federation. 24 January 2013. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
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