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 221240800945 2,206
2  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami 2724135320 1,217
3 Slovakia Petra Vlhová 90486630 1,125
4 Italy Federica Brignone 2183684767 1,069
5 Italy Sofia Goggia 74017600 916
6 Norway  Ragnhild Mowinckel 2263663110 903
7  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 074129655 858
8 Italy Marta Bassino 342005150 749
9 Italy Elena Curtoni 30835800 666
10 Sweden Sara Hector 00393243 636
11 Slovenia Ilka Štuhec 5515100 602
12  Switzerland  Corinne Suter 30925930 571
13  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin 14019861153 552
14 Austria Cornelia Hütter 16534700 512
15 United States Paula Moltzan 00209297 506
16 France Tessa Worley 01723280 500
17 Germany Lena Dürr 000493 493
18 Sweden Anna Swenn-Larsson 000470 470
19 Austria Mirjam Puchner 27318900 462
20 Norway  Thea Louise Stjernesund 00236170 406
21 Slovenia Ana Bucik 00146259 405
22 Germany Kira Weidle 25015100 401
23 Austria Franziska Gritsch 396120172 391
24  Switzerland  Joana Hählen 22016600 386
25 Canada Valérie Grenier 0303540 384
26 Norway  Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 24610600 352
27 Croatia Leona Popović 000349 349
28  Switzerland  Jasmine Flury 18515700 342
29 Austria Nina Ortlieb 22910700 336
30 Austria Ramona Siebenhofer 111149640 324
31 New Zealand Alice Robinson 34722070 313
32 Austria Stephanie Venier 11316300 276
33 Norway  Mina Fürst Holtmann 00136127 263
34 Austria Katharina Truppe 0037222 259
35 United States Breezy Johnson 2222700 249
36 France Laura Gauché 1509700 247
37 France Romane Miradoli 8216130 246
38 Sweden Hanna Aronsson Elfman 000240 240
39 Austria Katharina Liensberger 0094138 232
40 Germany Emma Aicher 48590110 217
41 Croatia Zrinka Ljutić 0018190 208
42 Italy Laura Pirovano 1367100 207
43 Poland Maryna Gasienica-Daniel 011990 200
44 Norway  Maria Therese Tviberg 0094103 197
45  Switzerland  Priska Nufer 1394400 183
46 United States Isabella Wright 1542200 176
47 Czech Republic Martina Dubovská 000168 168
48 Austria Tamara Tippler 897100 160
Austria Ricarda Haaser 0221380 160
50 Canada Laurence St. Germain 000158 158
51 Canada Ali Nullmeyer 000156 156
52  Switzerland  Camille Rast 004897 145
53 Austria Nicole Schmidhofer 1512000 135
54 Germany Jessica Hilzinger 000133 133
55 Austria Christina Ager 942900 123
56 Canada Amelia Smart 000117 117
57 Italy Nicol Delago 105900 114
58 France Coralie Frasse Sombet 001010 101
59  Switzerland  Elena Stoffel 00095 95
60  Switzerland  Andrea Ellenberger 00930 93
61 Slovenia Neja Dvornik 002264 86
62 Austria Stephanie Brunner 00840 84
63 France Nastasia Noens 00080 80
64 Austria Julia Scheib 00790 79
65 Italy Roberta Melesi 040380 78
66 Canada Marie-Michèle Gagnon 205700 77
67 Austria Katharina Huber 00866 74
68 Sweden Estelle Alphand 00710 71
69 Switzerland Melanie Meillard 00070 70
70 United States Nina O'Brien 00680 68
71  Switzerland  Nicole Good 00067 67
72 Austria Ariane Rädler 442100 65
73  Switzerland  Stephanie Jenal 323200 64
Germany Andrea Filser 00064 64
 Switzerland  Aline Danioth 00064 64
76 Italy Marta Rossetti 00061 61
77 Austria Elizabeth Kappaurer 00600 60
78 Albania  Lara Colturi 00536 59
79  Switzerland  Delia Durrer 48700 55
80  Switzerland  Juliana Suter 272400 51
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2023, after all 38 events and 4 cancellations[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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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