The women's downhill in the 2019 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eight events, including the season finals in Soldeu, Andorra. Defending discipline champion Sofia Goggia of Italy fractured her ankle prior to the start of the season and missed five of the eight events, ending her chances to repeat.[1] In addition, 2018 runner-up Lindsey Vonn of the USA, who had closed the prior season by winning all of the final four downhills and needed only four more victories to equal Ingemar Stenmark's all-time World Cup victory record, began the season injured and announced her planned retirement at the end of the season,[2] but was hampered during her comeback by her cumulative injuries,[3] and finally retired immediately after the conclusion of the 2019 World Ski Championships.[4]
2019 Women's downhill World Cup
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Among this wide=open field, Austrian skier Nicole Schmidhofer grabbed the lead in the discipline going into the next-to-last race of the season at Crans Montana in Switzerland, where a bizarre timing mishap occurred. In a race won by Goggia after her return, Schmidhofer was originally announced as placing third in the downhill, but before the podium, the placings were controversially changed and Schmidhofer was demoted to fourth behind Goggia and two Swiss skiers, Joana Hählen and Lara Gut-Behrami.[5] However, three days later, the official standings were again changed as, after a review of the adjustments made due to a timer misplacement, it turned out that four Swiss skiers (including both Hählen and Gut-Behrami) had been given incorrect adjustments, and Schmidhofer was moved up to second, giving her a 90-point lead with one race to go, virtually clinching the discipline championship for the season.[6] Schmidhofer then secured the title for 2019 at the season finals in Soldeu, Andorra when her nearest rival, fellow Austrian Ramona Siebenhofer, failed to win the race.[7]
The season was interrupted by the 2019 World Ski Championships, which were held from 4–17 February in Åre, Sweden. The women's downhill was held on 10 February.
Standings edit
| # | Skier | 30 Nov 2018 Lake Louise 
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1 Dec 2018 Lake Louise
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18 Dec 2018 Val Gardena/Gröden 
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18 Jan 2019 Cortina d'Ampezzo
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19 Jan 2019 Cortina d'Ampezzo
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27 Jan 2019 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 
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23 Feb 2019 Crans Montana 
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13 Mar 2019 Soldeu 
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Total |
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|
 Nicole Schmidhofer
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100 | 100 | 26 | 22 | 80 | 36 | 80 | 24 | 468 |
| 2 | Stephanie Venier
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50 | 29 | 36 | 60 | 20 | 100 | 45 | 32 | 372 |
| 3 | Ramona Siebenhofer
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20 | 40 | 60 | 100 | 100 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 354 |
| 4 |  Ilka Štuhec
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40 | 18 | 100 | 80 | 60 | 45 | DNF | DNS | 343 |
| 5 | Kira Weidle
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60 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 50 | 60 | 20 | 29 | 307 |
| 6 | Corinne Suter
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22 | 32 | 14 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 60 | 60 | 288 |
| 7 | Sofia Goggia
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DNS | 80 | 100 | 40 | 220 | ||||
| 8 | Nicol Delago
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12 | 45 | 80 | DNF | 24 | DNF | 22 | 36 | 219 |
| 9 | Michelle Gisin
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80 | 60 | 13 | 18 | 36 | DNS | 207 | ||
| 10 | Nadia Fanchini
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DNF | 36 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 32 | 50 | 201 |
| 11 | Mirjam Puchner
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0 | 4 | 40 | 12 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 100 | 189 |
| 12 | Viktoria Rebensburg
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15 | 13 | DNS | 24 | 45 | DNS | 80 | 177 | |
| 13 | Cornelia Hütter
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26 | 80 | DNS | 29 | 40 | DNF | DNS | 175 | |
| 14 |  Romane Miradoli
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15 | 14 | 20 | 45 | 15 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 169 |
| 15 |  Tina Weirather
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45 | DNF | 24 | 0 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 26 | 139 |
| 16 | Joana Hählen
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32 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 50 | DNF | 138 |
| 17 | Tamara Tippler
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0 | 3 | 15 | 36 | 20 | DNF | 14 | 45 | 133 |
| 18 | Lara Gut-Behrami
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18 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 40 | DNS | 128 |
| 19 | Jasmine Flury
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11 | 11 | 50 | 12 | 12 | DNF | 29 | 0 | 125 |
| 20 | Ricarda Haaser
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8 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 29 | 10 | 16 | 116 |
| 21 | Federica Brignone
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6 | 15 | DNS | 7 | 22 | DNF | 36 | 18 | 104 |
| 22 | Michaela Wenig
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0 | 2 | 45 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 97 |
| 23 |  Ragnhild Mowinckel
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3 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 24 | DNS | 85 |
| 24 |  Ester Ledecká
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10 | 26 | 2 | 14 | 32 | 0 | DNS | 0 | 84 |
| 25 |  Mikaela Shiffrin
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29 | 50 | DNS | 79 | |||||
| References | [8] | [9] | [10] | [11] | [12] | [13] | [14] | [15] | ||
- Winner
- 2nd place
- 3rd place
- DNF = Did Not Finish
- DNS = Did Not Start
- Updated at 18 March 2019, after all events.[16]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Zaccardi, Nick (20 October 2018). "Sofia Goggia, Olympic downhill champion, to miss chunk of World Cup season". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ Hodgetts, Rob (21 November 2018). "Lindsey Vonn injures knee, delays season start". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ Masters, James (24 January 2019). "Lindsey Vonn 'hopeful' of comeback after retirement talk". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ Schad, Tom (1 February 2019). "U.S. skier and Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn announces retirement". USA Today. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ Staff (23 February 2019). "Goggia wins controversial downhill in Switzerland". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ AFP (26 February 2019). "Crans-Montana timing chaos - podium changed three days later". France 24. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ Associated Press (13 March 2019). "Feuz, Schmidhofer secure downhill titles at World Cup Finals". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lake Louise Ladies' DH (CAN)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lake Louise Ladies' DH (CAN)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val Gardena/Gröden Ladies' DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Cortina d'Ampezzo Ladies' DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Cortina d'Ampezzo Ladies' DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Garmisch-Partenkirchen Ladies' DH (GER)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Crans-Montana Ladies' DH (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Grandvalira Soldeu – El Tarter Ladies' DH (AND)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
- ^ "Official FIS 2019 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.