The women's overall competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 40 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL) (which included one city event), and Alpine combined (AC) (which included one super-combined). A city event is a slalom conducted on a two-lane artificial ramp erected in a major city (for example, Stockholm this season, as well as Moscow, Munich, and Oslo); a super-combined (run at Val d'Isère in December 2015) consists of a downhill followed by a one-run slalom, as opposed to an Alpine combined (the other combined race currently contested), which consists of a Super-G followed by a one-run slalom.
2016 women's overall World Cup
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At the start of the season, the three still-active prior overall women's champions -- two-time defending champion Anna Fenninger of Austria (2014–15), Tina Maze of Slovenia (2013), and Lindsey Vonn of the USA (2008–10, 2012) -- were all inactive. Fenninger had to miss the entire season due to a serious knee injury in October.[1] Maze, an all-discipline skier who had been runner-up behind Fenninger in 2015, took a full-year hiatus before deciding whether to continue or permanently retire.[2] And Vonn was still recovering from, first, her season-ending injury in early 2015, and then a dog bite, and she didn't return until December 2015.[3] Then, in early December, just a handful of events into the season, Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA, overall fourth last season and slalom discipline champion for the last three seasons, suffered an injury during practice at Åre,[4] which caused her to miss the two months at the heart of the season; she did not return until mid-February (and promptly dominated the competition, although it was too late to contend for the season crown).[5]
With all of the injuries, Vonn, who herself missed more time due to injuries in late December, nevertheless had opened a narrow lead in the overall standings. When the World Cup went to Andorra in late February, Vonn had already won the Downhill discipline for the season and was leading in the Overall, Super-G and Combined disciplines for the season. However, on February 27, during the Super-G in Soldeu, Vonn crashed again near the end of her run while leading. She still raced the next day in the Combined event, although failing to podium, but on Monday a complete medical evaluation in Barcelona revealed multiple significant (not hairline, as she had thought) fractures in her knee from the Super-G crash, which ended her season at once.[6]
After Vonn's injury, 24-year-old Lara Gut of Switzerland, Vonn's closest pursuer, grabbed the overall lead and ended up as the season champion by almost 300 points.[7]
Appropriately, the World Cup season finals were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the first time since the World Cup season finals began in 1993, although five of the previous eleven finals were held in Switzerland (all at Lenzerheide).
Standings edit
| # | Skier | DH 9 races |
SG 8 races |
GS 9 races |
SL 11 races |
AC 3 races |
Tot. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
 Lara Gut
|
394 | 481 | 472 | 15 | 160 | 1,522 |
| 2 |  Lindsey Vonn
|
580 | 420 | 120 | 15 | 100 | 1,235 |
| 3 |  Viktoria Rebensburg
|
264 | 293 | 590 | 0 | 0 | 1,147 |
| 4 |  Tina Weirather
|
244 | 436 | 321 | 15 | 0 | 1,016 |
| 5 |  Frida Hansdotter
|
0 | 0 | 204 | 711 | 0 | 915 |
| 6 | Wendy Holdener
|
0 | 7 | 51 | 561 | 198 | 817 |
| 7 |  Cornelia Hütter
|
387 | 400 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 811 |
| 8 |  Federica Brignone
|
9 | 276 | 425 | 27 | 50 | 787 |
| 9 |  Nina Løseth
|
0 | 0 | 292 | 373 | 0 | 665 |
| 10 | Mikaela Shiffrin
|
0 | 18 | 98 | 500 | 32 | 648 |
| Fabienne Suter
|
463 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 648 | |
| 12 | Eva-Maria Brem
|
0 | 0 | 592 | 55 | 0 | 647 |
| 13 |  Veronika Velez-Zuzulová
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 626 | 0 | 626 |
| 14 | Nadia Fanchini
|
300 | 171 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 618 |
| 15 | Michaela Kirchgasser
|
0 | 4 | 179 | 280 | 153 | 616 |
| 16 |  Marie-Michèle Gagnon
|
0 | 8 | 174 | 271 | 145 | 598 |
| 17 | Kajsa Kling
|
218 | 215 | 63 | 0 | 44 | 540 |
| 18 | Laurenne Ross
|
224 | 250 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 526 |
| 19 | Maria Pietilä-Holmner
|
0 | 0 | 204 | 292 | 0 | 496 |
| 20 |  Šárka Strachová
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 493 | 0 | 493 |
| 21 | Johanna Schnarf
|
160 | 216 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 466 |
| 22 | Larisa Yurkiw
|
407 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 465 |
| 23 | Elena Curtoni
|
188 | 153 | 82 | 0 | 32 | 455 |
| 24 | Petra Vlhová
|
0 | 0 | 18 | 389 | 0 | 407 |
| 25 | Francesca Marsaglia
|
102 | 145 | 88 | 0 | 65 | 400 |
- Leader
- 2nd place
- 3rd place
- Updated at 19 March 2016, after all events[8]
See also edit
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's combined
- 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall
References edit
- ^ Associated Press (22 October 2015). "Fenniger Out for Season after Crash in Austria". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ "Tina Maze temporarily suspends her career". RTV. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ "Lindsey Vonn: Back on the slopes after suffering dogfight injury". CNN.com. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ Staff (12 December 2015). "Skiing-Olympic champ Shiffrin heads home with knee injury". Reuters. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ Staff (8 February 2016). "Mikaela Shiffrin announces mid-February return to the World Cup". Ski-Racing Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ Hall, Gabbi (2 March 2016). "Lindsey Vonn ends season early after revised injury diagnosis". Ski-Racing Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ Majendie, Matt (15 March 2016). "Lara Gut: Family affair pushes Swiss skier to new heights". Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ "Official FIS 2016 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.