2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

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2021 women's overall World Cup
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The women's overall in the 2021 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 31 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), and parallel (PAR). The sixth discipline, Alpine combined (AC), had all three of its events in the 2020–21 season cancelled, The tentative women's season schedule included 37 events (plus two team parallels, including one to take place at the season finals),[1] but the final women's schedule cut the number of events to 34 (and only one team parallel) due to the continuing disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Among the changes were the elimination of the three Alpine combined races (Val d'Isére, St. Anton, Crans Montana) to eliminate the mixing of speed skiers and technical skiers in those events, as well as the elimination of two (St. Moritz, Davos) of the three parallels (and one of the team parallels (Lech/Zürs)) in favor of other races. Ultimately, only three of the races in this schedule -- one downhill, one Super-G, and one giant slalom -- were canceled during the season, as discussed later.

In addition to the disruption resulting from the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the season was interrupted by the 2021 World Ski Championships, which were held from 8–21 February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

The last four events of the season were scheduled to take place at the World Cup finals, scheduled for Wednesday, 17 March through Sunday, 21 March in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship are eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that athletes who have scored at least 500 points in the overall classification are eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of standing in that discipline for the season.

The season championship was a battle between the two skiers with the most victories on the season (six): the technical ace Petra Vlhová from Slovakia (four slaloms, two giant slaloms) and the speed ace Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland (four Super-Gs, two downhills). Heading into the finals, Vlhová had a 93-point lead over Gut-Behrami. Since Gut-Behrami no longer skies in the slalom discipline due to a series of injuries, she needed a strong performance in the two speed races scheduled during the finals, in which she had a predicted advantage over Vlhová, to make up the gap. However, on 17 March, the downhill final (the first event in the finals) had to be cancelled after three days of heavy snowfall.[3] On 18 March, the Super-G final was also cancelled, eliminating both speed finals and providing a distinct edge to a technical skier like Vlhová.[4] And then the bad weather moved out before the slalom finals, and in the that final, Vlhová placed sixth, which gave her 40 points, enough to clinch overall victory before the giant slalom.[5]

Standings[edit]

# Skier DH
7 races 		SG
6 races 		GS
8 races 		SL
9 races 		 PAR 
1 race 		Total
Slovakia Petra Vlhová 164 158 342 652 100 1,416
2  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami 383 525 288 0 60 1,256
3  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin 143 107 389 491 0 1,130
4 United States Mikaela Shiffrin 0 0 420 655 0 1,075
5 Austria Katharina Liensberger 0 0 198 690 15 903
6 Italy Marta Bassino 44 228 546 13 45 876
7 Italy Federica Brignone 96 323 372 40 36 867
8  Switzerland  Corinne Suter 410 310 33 0 0 753
9 Italy Sofia Goggia 480 86 170 0 4 740
10  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 0 47 62 415 11 535
11 Austria Tamara Tippler 211 272 0 0 0 483
12 France Tessa Worley 0 88 391 0 0 479
13 Czech Republic Ester Ledecká 206 236 11 0 0 453
14 Italy Elena Curtoni 206 136 90 0 0 432
15 Austria Ramona Siebenhofer 194 8 173 0 3 378
16 Sweden Sara Hector 0 0 196 125 50 371
17 United States Breezy Johnson 330 37 0 0 0 367
18 Norway  Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 179 182 0 0 0 361
19 New Zealand Alice Robinson 0 36 278 0 12 326
20 Germany Kira Weidle 265 51 0 0 0 316
21 United States Paula Moltzan 0 0 38 185 80 303
22 Italy Laura Pirovano 220 48 5 0 0 273
23 Norway  Kristin Lysdahl 0 0 20 227 16 263
24 Canada Marie-Michèle Gagnon 128 125 0 0 0 253
25 Slovenia Meta Hrovat 0 0 234 8 10 252
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2021, after all events[6]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Provisional World Cup calendar for women" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Official World Cup calendar for women" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  3. ^ Associated Press (17 March 2021). "Goggia, Feuz win World Cup downhill titles after races cancelled". CBC. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  4. ^ Associated Press (18 March 2021). "More World Cup races canceled, good for Vlhova, Pinturault". Associated Press. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  5. ^ Poggi, Alessandro (20 March 2021). "Vlhova clinches historic overall World Cup title for Slovakia, Liensberger takes slalom globe". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Official FIS women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

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