1976–77 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The 11th World Cup season began in December 1976 in France and concluded in March 1977 in Spain. Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden won his second of three consecutive men's overall titles. Rosi Mittermaier, the defending women's overall champion, retired after the 1976 season, but Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who had won the previous five overall titles, returned from her 1976 sabbatical. However, Lise-Marie Morerod of Switzerland won the women's overall title.

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 1976/77
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Ingemar Stenmark	Lise-Marie Morerod
Downhill	Franz Klammer	Brigitte Totschnig
Giant slalom	Heini Hemmi	Lise-Marie Morerod
Slalom	Ingemar Stenmark	Lise-Marie Morerod
Nations Cup	Austria	Austria
Nations Cup overall	Austria
Competition
Locations	18	17
Individual	33	27

No individual championship was awarded in the Combined discipline, even though both men and women held three combined events, the same as the prior year. The combined discipline championship would not return until 1980.

Calendar

Men

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, KB – Combined, PS – Parallel slalom (Nations Cup ranking only)

Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third
230	1	10 December 1976	Val d'Isère	GS 075	Phil Mahre	Ingemar Stenmark	Klaus Heidegger
231	2	12 December 1976		GS 076	Heini Hemmi	Piero Gros	Phil Mahre
232	3	17 December 1976	Val Gardena	DH 069	Franz Klammer	Herbert Plank	Erik Håker
233	4	18 December 1976		DH 070	Franz Klammer	Josef Walcher	Bernhard Russi
234	5	19 December 1976	Madonna di Campiglio	SL 081	Fausto Radici	Piero Gros	Gustav Thöni
235	6	2 January 1977	Ebnat-Kappel	GS 077	Heini Hemmi	Christian Hemmi	Gustav Thöni
236	7	3 January 1977	Laax	SL 082	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt	Walter Tresch
237	8	8 January 1977	Garmisch	DH 071	Franz Klammer	Ernst Winkler	Peter Wirnsberger
238	9	9 January 1977		GS 078	Klaus Heidegger	Heini Hemmi	Willi Frommelt
239	10	9 January 1977	Berchtesgaden	SL 083	Ingemar Stenmark	Klaus Heidegger	Alois Morgenstern
240	11	15 January 1977	Kitzbühel	DH 072	Franz Klammer	Rene Berthod	Bernhard Russi
241	12	16 January 1977		SL 084	Ingemar Stenmark	Piero Gros	Franco Bieler
242	13	16 January 1977		KB 007	Gustav Thöni	Walter Tresch	Anton Steiner
243	14	22 January 1977	Wengen	DH 073	Franz Klammer	Sepp Ferstl	Bernhard Russi
244	15	23 January 1977		SL 085	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt	Klaus Heidegger
245	16	23 January 1977		KB 008	Walter Tresch	Gustav Thöni	Sepp Ferstl
246	17	24 January 1977	Adelboden	GS 079	Heini Hemmi	Ingemar Stenmark	Klaus Heidegger
247	18	30 January 1977	Morzine	DH 074	Bernhard Russi	Josef Walcher	Ernst Winkler
248	19	31 January 1977		DH 075	Josef Walcher	Herbert Plank	Bernhard Russi
249	20	6 February 1977	St. Anton	SL 086	Ingemar Stenmark	Klaus Heidegger	Paul Frommelt
250	21	18 February 1977	Laax	DH 076	Franz Klammer	Sepp Ferstl	Bernhard Russi
251	22	6 February 1977   18 February 1977	St. Anton (SL) Laax (DH)	KB 009	Sepp Ferstl	Peter Lüscher	Franz Klammer
252	23	25 February 1977	Furano	GS 080	Hans Hinterseer	Manfred Brunner	Ernst Good
253	24	27 February 1977		SL 087	Klaus Heidegger	Ingemar Stenmark	Bruno Nöckler
254	25	5 March 1977	Sun Valley	SL 088	Phil Mahre	Ingemar Stenmark	Steve Mahre
255	26	6 March 1977		GS 081	Ingemar Stenmark	Christian Hemmi	Heini Hemmi
256	27	12 March 1977	Heavenly Valley	DH 077	Josef Walcher	Werner Grissmann	Bernhard Russi
257	28	13 March 1977		DH 078	Bartl Gensbichler	Ernst Winkler	Peter Fischer
258	29	17 March 1977	Voss	GS 082	Klaus Heidegger	Piero Gros	Phil Mahre
259	30	18 March 1977		SL 089	Ingemar Stenmark	Piero Gros	Christian Neureuther
260	31	20 March 1977	Åre	SL 090	Ingemar Stenmark	Franco Bieler	Gustav Thöni
261	32	21 March 1977		GS 083	Ingemar Stenmark	Klaus Heidegger	Miloslav Sochor
262	33	25 March 1977	Sierra Nevada	GS 084	Ingemar Stenmark	Heini Hemmi	Christian Hemmi
Nations Cup		26 March 1977	Sierra Nevada	PS ncr	Manfred Brunner	Klaus Heidegger	Bruno Nöckler

Ladies

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, KB – Combined, PS – Parallel slalom (Nations Cup ranking only)

Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third
224	1	9 December 1976	Val d'Isère	GS 074	Lise-Marie Morerod	Abbi Fisher	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
225	2	11 December 1976	Courmayeur	GS 075	Brigitte Totschnig	Lea Solkner	Hanni Wenzel
226	3	15 December 1976	Cortina d'Ampezzo	DH 061	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Elena Matous	Brigitte Totschnig
227	4	16 December 1976		SL 084	Lise-Marie Morerod	Hanni Wenzel	Claudia Giordani
228	5	16 December 1976		KB 007	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Lise-Marie Morerod	Hanni Wenzel
229	6	20 December 1976	Zell am See	DH 062	Brigitte Totschnig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Nicola Spieß
230	7	21 December 1976		DH 063	Brigitte Totschnig	Marie-Theres Nadig Nicola Spieß
231	8	3 January 1977	Oberstaufen	SL 085	Lise-Marie Morerod	Hanni Wenzel	Patricia Emonet
232	9	8 January 1977	Pfronten	DH 064	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Marie-Theres Nadig	Irene Epple
233	10	11 January 1977	Garmisch	DH 065	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Bernadette Zurbriggen	Marie-Theres Nadig
234	11	18 January 1977	Schruns	DH 066	Bernadette Zurbriggen	Evi Mittermaier	Marie-Theres Nadig
235	12	19 January 1977		SL 086	Lise-Marie Morerod	Fabienne Serrat	Pamela Behr
236	13	19 January 1977		KB 008	Hanni Wenzel	Lise-Marie Morerod	Monika Kaserer
237	14	20 January 1977	Arosa	GS 076	Lise-Marie Morerod	Kathy Kreiner	Monika Kaserer
238	15	25 January 1977	Crans-Montana	DH 067	Brigitte Totschnig	Evi Mittermaier	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
239	16	26 January 1977		SL 087	Perrine Pelen	Lise-Marie Morerod	Fabienne Serrat
240	17	26 January 1977		KB 009	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel
241	18	28 January 1977	St. Gervais	SL 088	Perrine Pelen	Patricia Emonet	Monika Kaserer
242	19	29 January 1977	Megève	GS 077	Monika Kaserer	Lise-Marie Morerod	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
243	20	1 February 1977	Maribor	SL 089	Claudia Giordani	Monika Kaserer	Perrine Pelen
244	21	2 February 1977		GS 078	Lise-Marie Morerod	Monika Kaserer	Fabienne Serrat
245	22	26 February 1977	Furano	SL 090	Regina Sackl	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Claudia Giordani
246	23	27 February 1977		GS 079	Monika Kaserer	Lise-Marie Morerod	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
247	24	5 March 1977	Sun Valley	SL 091	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani	Monika Kaserer
248	25	6 March 1977		GS 080	Lise-Marie Morerod	Kathy Kreiner	Abbi Fisher
249	26	12 March 1977	Heavenly Valley	DH 068	Brigitte Totschnig	Evi Mittermaier	Doris de Agostini
250	27	24 March 1977	Sierra Nevada	GS 081	Lise-Marie Morerod	Ingrid Eberle	Ursula Konzett
Nations Cup		26 March 1977	Sierra Nevada	PS ncr	Christa Zechmeister	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Men

Overall

The Men's overall World Cup 1976/77 was most likely also divided into two periods, but no racer had a point deduction.

Place	Name	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	339	0	124	215	0
2	Klaus Heidegger	Austria	250	0	129	121	0
3	Franz Klammer	Austria	203	180	0	0	23
4	Piero Gros	Italy	165	0	76	89	0
5	Bernhard Russi	Switzerland	148	148	0	0	0
6	Gustav Thöni	Italy	145	0	29	71	45
7	Heini Hemmi	Switzerland	133	0	130	3	0
8	Josef Walcher	Austria	115	115	0	0	0
9	Phil Mahre	United States	100	0	75	27	0
10	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	99	0	4	95	0
11	Sepp Ferstl	West Germany	97	46	0	0	51
12	Franco Bieler	Italy	92	0	26	66	0
13	Walter Tresch	Italy	89	15	0	29	45
14	Hansi Hinterseer	Austria	82	0	53	29	0
15	Christian Hemmi	Switzerland	69	0	68	1	0

Downhill

In men's downhill World Cup 1976/77 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Franz Klammer won 5 races in a row and won the cup with maximum points. Together with the last 4 downhill races last season 1975/76, he won 9 downhill races in a row, and Klammer won his third Downhill World Cup in a row. Austrian skiers won 9 races out of 10.

Place	Name	Country	Total	3	4	8	11	14	18	19	21	27	28
1	Franz Klammer	Austria	125	25	25	25	25	25	(11)	(11)	(25)	(8)	-
2	Josef Walcher	Austria	101	-	20	(8)	-	11	20	25	-	25	(6)
3	Bernhard Russi	Switzerland	85	(11)	15	(11)	15	15	25	15	(15)	(15)	(11)
4	Ernst Winkler	Austria	64	-	-	20	8	-	15	1	(1)	(1)	20
5	Herbert Plank	Italy	56	20	4	-	4	-	8	20	-	-	-
6	Sepp Ferstl	West Germany	46	-	-	-	3	20	3	-	20	-	-
7	Werner Grissmann	Austria	45	(3)	11	-	-	4	-	-	6	20	4
8	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	35	4	(1)	15	6	2	-	8	-	-	(1)
	René Berthod	Switzerland	35	-	-	-	20	4	-	6	3	-	2
10	Peter Fischer	West Germany	34	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	2	11	15
11	Bartl Gensbichler	Austria	29	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	25

Giant slalom

In men's giant slalom World Cup 1976/77 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Due to the tiebreak rules then in effect, Ingemar Stenmark failed to win his third Giant slalom World Cup in a row, as the reigning Olympic Champion Heini Hemmi, who scored the same number of retained points (115), achieved the better sixth result throughout the season in that event (3rd place at Sun Valley).

Place	Name	Country	Total	1	2	6	9	17	23	26	29	32	33
1	Heini Hemmi	Switzerland	115	-	25	25	20	25	-	(15)	-	-	20
2	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	115	20	(6)	(3)	-	20	-	25	-	25	25
3	Klaus Heidegger	Austria	100	15	(8)	(11)	25	15	(8)	-	25	20	(2)
4	Phil Mahre	United States	72	25	15	-	11	-	-	(3)	15	-	6
5	Piero Gros	Italy	70	11	20	8	(2)	(3)	-	11	20	(1)	-
6	Christian Hemmi	Switzerland	65	2	-	20	(1)	8	-	20	-	(2)	15
7	Hansi Hinterseer	Austria	53	6	-	6	8	-	25	-	8	-	-
8	Willi Frommelt	Liechtenstein	40	4	2	-	15	-	11	(2)	8	-	(1)
9	Manfred Brunner	Austria	32	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	4	4	4
10	Gustav Thöni	Italy	29	-	3	15	-	-	3	-	-	8	-

Slalom

In men's slalom World Cup 1976/77 the best 5 results count. Nine racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Ingemar Stenmark won five races in a row and won the cup with maximum points. He won seven races out of ten and won his third Slalom World Cup in a row!

Place	Name	Country	Total	5	7	10	12	15	20	24	25	30	31
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	125	-	25	25	25	25	25	(20)	(20)	(25)	(25)
2	Klaus Heidegger	Austria	91	11	-	20	(11)	15	20	25	-	(11)	(8)
3	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	77	(2)	20	(8)	(6)	20	15	(2)	11	-	11
4	Piero Gros	Italy	76	20	(3)	(6)	20	-	8	(4)	-	20	8
5	Gustav Thöni	Italy	63	15	11	-	(8)	11	-	11	-	-	15
6	Franco Bieler	Italy	58	(4)	(4)	-	15	-	11	-	6	6	20
7	Fausto Radici	Italy	53	25	8	4	(4)	8	-	8	(1)	-	-
8	Christian Neureuther	West Germany	30	-	-	3	-	2	6	-	4	15	(2)
9	Walter Tresch	Switzerland	29	-	15	-	-	6	-	-	-	8	-
10	Hansi Hinterseer	Austria	28	6	1	11	2	-	(1)	-	8	-	-
11	Alois Morgenstern	Austria	27	8	-	15	3	1	-	-	-	-	-
12	Phil Mahre	United States	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-

Combined

After the first ever Combined World Cup 1975/76, in this season 1976/77 there were no special discipline world cup for Combined awarded. All three results only count for the Overall World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total	13	16	22
1	Sepp Ferstl	West Germany	51	11	15	25
2	Walter Tresch	Switzerland	45	20	25	-
	Gustav Thöni	Italy	45	25	20	-
4	Franz Klammer	Austria	23	8	-	15
5	Peter Lüscher	Switzerland	20	-	-	20
6	Hans Enn	Austria	19	-	11	8
7	Leonhard Stock	Austria	16	4	8	4
8	Anton Steiner	Austria	15	15	-	-
	Michael Veith	West Germany	15	-	4	11
	Peter Müller	Switzerland	15	3	6	6

Ladies

Overall

The Women's overall World Cup 1976/77 was divided into two periods. From the first 16 races the best 8 results count and from the last 11 races the best 7 results count. Six racers had a point deduction.

Place	Name	Country	Total
1	Lise-Marie Morerod	Switzerland	319
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	246
3	Monika Kaserer	Austria	196
4	Brigitte Totschnig	Austria	186
5	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	150
6	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	133
7	Perrine Pelen	France	132
8	Claudia Giordani	Italy	121
9	Fabienne Serrat	France	85
10	Bernadette Zurbriggen	Switzerland	78
11	Evi Mittermaier	West Germany	77
12	Regina Sackl	Austria	74
13	Kathy Kreiner	Canada	65
14	Nicola Spieß	Austria	61
15	Lea Sölkner	Austria	59

Downhill

In women's downhill World Cup 1976/77 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had point a deduction, which are given in (). Austrian skiers won 7 races out of 8.

Place	Name	Country	Total	3	6	7	9	10	11	15	26
1	Brigitte Totschnig	Austria	115	15	25	25	(11)	(6)	(11)	25	25
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	110	25	20	-	25	25	-	15	(8)
3	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	81	(2)	(2)	20	20	15	15	11	(11)
4	Evi Mittermaier	West Germany	74	6	-	(3)	-	8	20	20	20
5	Bernadette Zurbriggen	Switzerland	63	-	-	6	8	20	25	4	-
6	Nicola Spieß	Austria	60	11	15	20	6	(1)	8	-	-
7	Irene Epple	West Germany	43	3	(1)	(2)	15	11	6	8	-
8	Elena Matous	Iran	33	20	8	4	-	-	1	-	-
9	Brigitte Schroll	Austria	26	4	11	8	-	3	-	-	-
10	Cindy Nelson	United States	22	8	3	11	-	-	-	-	-

Giant slalom

In women's giant slalom World Cup 1976/77 the best 5 results count. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Lise-Marie Morerod won 5 races and won the cup with maximum points.

Place	Name	Country	Total	1	2	14	19	21	23	25	27
1	Lise-Marie Morerod	Switzerland	125	25	-	25	(20)	25	(20)	25	25
2	Monika Kaserer	Austria	93	(4)	-	15	25	20	25	8	-
3	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	60	15	4	(1)	15	-	15	(3)	11
4	Kathy Kreiner	Canada	59	8	8	20	-	-	3	20	(3)
5	Abbi Fisher	United States	39	20	-	-	4	-	-	15	-
	Brigitte Totschnig	Austria	39	-	25	-	1	-	2	11	-
7	Lea Sölkner	Austria	36	2	20	-	2	11	-	1	(1)
8	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	31	-	15	-	-	8	8	-	-
	Becky Dorsey	United States	31	1	-	8	3	-	11	-	8
	Fabienne Serrat	France	31	-	-	4	6	15	-	-	6

Slalom

In women's slalom World Cup 1976/77 the best 5 results count. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().

Place	Name	Country	Total	4	8	12	16	18	20	22	24
1	Lise-Marie Morerod	Switzerland	106	25	25	25	20	-	-	-	11
2	Perrine Pelen	France	98	(3)	-	8	25	25	15	(4)	25
3	Claudia Giordani	Italy	86	15	-	(2)	11	(8)	25	15	20
4	Monika Kaserer	Austria	65	4	11	(3)	(4)	15	20	-	15
5	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	57	20	20	11	3	-	-	3	-
6	Regina Sackl	Austria	56	11	8	4	-	-	8	25	-
7	Fabienne Serrat	France	49	-	4	20	15	4	6	-	(2)
8	Patricia Emonet	France	41	-	15	-	6	20	-	-	-
9	Pamela Behr	Austria	40	-	-	15	8	11	-	6	-
10	Christa Zechmeister	West Germany	30	-	6	6	(2)	3	11	-	4

Combined

After the first ever Combined World Cup 1975/76, in this season 1976/77 there were no special discipline world cup for Combined awarded. All three results only count for the Overall World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total	5	13	17
1	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	55	15	25	15
2	Lise-Marie Morerod	Switzerland	48	20	20	8
3	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	45	25	-	20
4	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	36	-	11	25
5	Monika Kaserer	Austria	32	6	15	11
6	Cindy Nelson	United States	11	11	-	-
7	Claudia Giordani	Italy	10	8	2	-
8	Christa Zechmeister	West Germany	8	-	8	-
	Danièle Debernard	France	8	4	4	-
	Lea Sölkner	Austria	8	-	6	2

Nations Cup

Overall

Place	Country	Total	Men	Ladies
1	Austria	1973	1001	972
2	Switzerland	1153	602	551
3	Italy	688	567	121
4	West Germany	381	200	181
5	Liechtenstein	370	193	177
6	Sweden	364	364	0
7	France	311	1	310
8	United States	300	144	156
9	Canada	69	4	65
10	Iran	39	0	39
11	Czechoslovakia	24	24	0
12	Norway	21	21	0
13	Yugoslavia	15	15	0
14	Japan	4	4	0
15	Australia	3	3	0
16	Bulgaria	1	1	0

Men

Place	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB	Racers	Wins
1	Austria	1001	533	218	177	73	14	13
2	Switzerland	602	237	251	34	80	12	5
3	Italy	567	58	149	313	47	8	2
4	Sweden	364	0	142	222	0	3	10
5	West Germany	200	97	0	32	71	4	1
6	Liechtenstein	193	0	74	113	6	3	0
7	United States	144	6	94	40	4	6	2
8	Czechoslovakia	24	0	20	4	0	2	0
9	Norway	21	19	0	2	0	2	0
10	Yugoslavia	15	0	3	12	0	1	0
11	Japan	4	0	0	4	0	1	0
12	Canada	4	0	0	0	4	2	0
13	Australia	3	3	0	0	0	1	0
14	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
	France	1	0	1	0	0	1	0

Ladies

Place	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB	Racers	Wins
1	Austria	972	378	281	218	95	11	12
2	Switzerland	551	178	179	106	88	5	10
3	France	310	1	72	220	17	5	3
4	West Germany	181	123	6	43	9	7	0
5	Liechtenstein	177	19	46	57	55	2	1
6	United States	156	31	93	21	11	8	0
7	Italy	121	0	15	96	10	1	1
8	Canada	65	3	62	0	0	1	0
9	Iran	39	33	6	0	0	1	0

External links

• FIS-ski.com – World Cup standings - 1977
• 1977 World Cup at SVT's open archive (in Swedish)