2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill

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2024 Women's Downhill World Cup
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The women's downhill in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eight events, including the final.[1] The tentative schedule called for eleven events, but a new event, the team combined, which was scheduled for 16 February 2024 in Crans Montana, was cancelled and converted into an additional downhill on the final schedule, increasing the planned schedule to twelve. However, as discussed below in the season summary, cancellations reduced that number during the season. The season champion was Cornelia Hütter of Austria, ending a string of three straight season triumphs by Sofia Goggia of Italy, who was injured just after the midpoint of the season but still finished third.

Season summary[edit]

The first two downhills of the season were scheduled for 18 and 19 November 2023 on the "Gran Becca" course on the Matterhorn, which crosses an international border between the start (Zermatt, in Switzerland) and the finish (Cervinia, in Italy); the course name comes from the local dialect in Valtournenche, in which the Matterhorn is called “Gran Becca”, meaning “big peak”.[2] However, the first downhill of the season was cancelled due to high winds on the Matterhorn, and its rescheduling or replacement is currently not planned.[3] The scheduled race the next day also was cancelled due to high winds, and its rescheduling or replacement is also not planned, reducing the season to ten events.[4]

As a result, the first downhill was held in St. Moritz, Switzerland on 9 December, and visibility deteriorated so badly during the break after the first 30 skiers that the remainder of the race was canceled after 35 skiers; three of the five after the break failed to finish.[5] However, the race was official since the 30 skiers had already gone, and it resulted in an upset victory for two-time defending overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S. (only her fourth downhill win of her all-time record 91 total victories).[5] However, Shiffrin only competed in one of the next four downhills, in Cortina, in which she crashed and was injured,[6] and those four downhills were won by four different skiers from four different countries: Jasmine Flury of Switzerland;[7] three-time defending discipline champion Sofia Goggia of Italy;[8] Stephanie Venier of Austria;[9] and Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway.[10] The wide distribution of results left Goggia in the overall lead at the halfway point of the season, with an 89-point lead over Venier with four races to go.

The following downhill, scheduled for the first week of February in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was then cancelled due to warm weather, giving the many injured skiers on the World Cup circuit another week to recover.[11] However, even the time off didn't affect the proliferation of injuries, with discipline leader Goggia requiring immediate surgery after breaking two bones in her right leg while doing giant slalom training in Italy, putting her on the sidelines for the rest of the season along with Swiss skiers Joana Hählen and Corinne Suter and Canadian skier Valérie Grenier, while Shiffrin also was still out after her crash in Cortina.[12] In the first race back after Goggia's injury, at Crans Montana in Switzerland, Swiss star Lara Gut-Behrami became the sixth different winner in six races for the season, and her victory moved her to within 41 points of Goggia's season lead. and three other racers -- Venier, Flury, and Cornelia Hütter of Austria -- closed to within 100 points.[13] The next day, a seventh different winner, Marta Bassino of Italy, took advantage of an early start time on a melting course to claim the top step of the podium ahead of Brignone and Gut-Behrami; however, Gut-Behrami took over the season lead in the discipline (with just two races to go), giving her the current lead in three of the four disciplines as well as the overall lead.[14]

The next-to-last downhill of the season, in Kvitfjell, was scheduled for 2 March, but both planned training runs, on 29 February and 1 March, were cancelled by heavy snowfall, which meant the downhill could not be run (as at least one training run prior to the race is required); instead, the race was converted to a super-G to replace one of the two races in that discipline cancelled the prior week.[15]

Finals[edit]

The World Cup finals in women's downhill were held on Saturday, 23 March 2024 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. For the first time since the finals began in 1993, the downhill was the last event of the finals instead of the first, with the women's race being held on Saturday and the men's on Sunday. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup downhill discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline (Victoria Olivier of Austria), plus any skiers who had scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, were eligible to compete in the discipline final, and only the top 15 earned World Cup points. Due to injuries, six qualified skiers (Goggia, Shiffrin, Flury, Hählen, Grenier, and Laura Gauché of France) missed the finals, and one non-qualified skier with 500 points (Alice Robinson) opted to compete, so the final consisted of 21 racers.

Gut-Behrami carried a lead of 68 points over Venier and 72 points over Hütter into the final, so she only needed to tie for eighth (worth 32 points) to clinch the season title. Hütter, skiing twelfth, moved into first by half a second, but Gut-Behrami, skiing just two racers later, played it too safe and was almost two seconds behind, giving Hütter only the second downhill win of her career (about six-and-one-half years after her first, at Lake Louise in 2017) and the discipline crown for the season.[16]

Standings[edit]

Rank Name
18 Nov 2023
Zermatt/Cervinia

 Switzerland 
Italy
19 Nov 2023
Zermatt/Cervinia

 Switzerland 
Italy
9 Dec 2023
St. Moritz

 Switzerland 
16 Dec 2023
Val d'Isère

France
13 Jan 2024
Zauchensee

Austria
26 Jan 2024
Cortina d'Ampezzo

Italy
27 Jan 2024
Cortina d'Ampezzo

Italy
3 Feb 2024
Garmisch

Germany
16 Feb 2024
Crans Montana

 Switzerland 
17 Feb 2024
Crans Montana

 Switzerland 
2 Mar 2024
Kvitfjell

Norway
23 Mar 2024
Saalbach

Austria 		Total
Austria Cornelia Hütter x 50 60 15 32 36 x 80 24 x 100 397
2  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami x 20 24 40 80 45 x 100 60 x 0 369
3 Italy Sofia Goggia x 80 50 100 60 60 x DNS 350
4 Austria Stephanie Venier x 36 DNS 80 100 45 x 26 14 x 45 346
5 Italy Federica Brignone x 60 32 18 DNF 22 x 40 80 x 29 281
6  Switzerland  Jasmine Flury x 13 100 24 22 24 x 80 12 x DNS 275
7 Austria Mirjam Puchner x 45 26 60 29 20 x 16 15 x 40 251
8 Slovenia  Ilka Štuhec x 18 45 22 10 12 x 29 26 x 80 242
9 Italy Marta Bassino x 26 12 0 24 29 x 45 100 x 0 236
10 Italy Laura Pirovano x 7 14 20 40 18 x 50 45 x 22 216
11 Austria Ariane Rädler x 15 36 36 11 15 x 32 40 x 26 211
12 Norway  Ragnhild Mowinckel x 2 18 6 16 100 x 22 36 x 0 200
13 Italy Nicol Delago x 11 11 60 12 13 x 15 16 x 60 198
14 United States Jacqueline Wiles x DNS 6 18 20 80 x 20 20 x 20 184
15 Germany Kira Weidle x 29 20 45 15 DNF x 9 13 x 32 163
16 Norway  Kajsa Vickhoff Lie x 16 22 DNF 36 32 x 24 32 x 0 162
17 France Laura Gauché x 8 9 29 18 50 x 18 29 x DNS 161
18 Austria Christina Ager x 10 3 6 60 14 x 0 5 x 50 148
 Switzerland  Priska Nufer x 14 40 26 DNF 16 x 36 0 x 16 148
20  Switzerland  Joana Hählen x 6 80 13 26 DNF DNS 125
21  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin x 32 11 32 DNF DNS x 5 0 x 36 116
22 United States Mikaela Shiffrin x 100 DNS DNF DNS 100
23 Czech Republic Ester Ledecká x 9 15 7 DNS DNF x 14 18 x 24 87
24 Bosnia and Herzegovina Elvedina Muzaferija x DNF 0 0 0 6 x 13 50 x 0 69
25 Canada Valérie Grenier x DNS 60 DNF DNS 60
26  Switzerland  Delia Durrer x 12 16 12 2 10 x 3 2 x NE 57
27 Germany Emma Aicher x 40 7 DNF DNF DNS x 8 DNF x NE 55
28  Switzerland  Corinne Suter x 24 29 DNF DNF DNS NE 53
29 United States Isabella Wright x 22 2 14 13 DNF x DNF DNF x NE 51
30 Italy Teresa Runggaldier x DNS 0 0 5 11 x 10 24 x NE 50
Austria Christine Scheyer x 4 13 11 9 DNF x 2 11 x NE 50
32 France Romane Miradoli x DNS 0 0 26 x 12 9 x NE 47
33 United States Lauren Macuga x DNS 0 0 15 8 x 11 8 x NE 42
34 Italy Nadia Delago x 5 5 9 8 9 x 0 0 x NE 36
35 New Zealand Alice Robinson x DNS 0 DNS x 1 4 x 18 23
36 Austria Sabrina Maier x 0 0 10 DNF DNS x 6 4 x NE 20
37 Austria Michelle Niederwieser x DNS 8 8 1 DNF x DNS x NE 17
38  Switzerland  Stephanie Jenal x DNS 4 DNF 3 x 0 7 x NE 14
39  Switzerland  Noémie Kolly x DNS DNF DNS x 7 6 x NE 13
40 United States Keely Cashman x DNS 1 0 4 7 x DNS x NE 12
41 France Karen Smadja-Clément x DNS 0 DNF 0 6 x 4 1 x NE 11
42 Austria Emily Schöpf x DNS 0 0 DNS x 0 10 x NE 10
43 Canada Stefanie Fleckenstein x 3 4 DNS x NE 7
Italy Roberta Melesi x DNS 7 DNS x 0 DNS x NE 7
45 Austria Ricarda Haaser x DNS 6 DNS x 0 0 x NE 6
46  Switzerland  Jasmina Suter x DNS 0 DNS 0 4 x 0 0 x NE 4
47 Italy Vicky Bernardi x DNS 3 DNS x 0 0 x NE 3
United States Tricia Mangan x DNS DNF DNF 3 0 x DNF 0 x NE 3
Austria Lena Wechner x DNS 0 2 DNF 1 x DNS 0 x NE 3
50 Austria Nadine Fest x DNF 0 DNS DNF 2 x 0 0 x NE 2
51 Sweden Lisa Hörnblad x DNS 0 1 DNF 0 x 0 0 x NE 1
 Switzerland  Juliana Suter x 1 DNS NE 1
References [3] [4] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [11] [22] [23] [15] [24]

Legend[edit]

  •   Winner (100 points)
  •   2nd place (80 points)
  •   3rd place (60 points)
  • DNF = Did not finish
  • DSQ = Disqualified
  •   Did not start (DNS)
  •   Not eligible for finals (NE)
  •   Race canceled (x)
  • Updated on 23 March 2024, after all events.[25]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "FIS CALENDAR & RESULTS - World Cup Women DH". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. ^ "The Ultimate Guide to the Zermatt Ski World Cup and the Gran Becca Slope". Zermatterhorn. 21 October 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b Associated Press (18 November 2023). "Strong winds cancel women's World Cup downhill race at Matterhorn mountain". MSN.com. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  4. ^ a b Southby, Ben (19 November 2023). "WEATHER CAUSES MORE TROUBLE IN ZERMATT-CERVINIA AS WOMEN'S DOWNHILL WORLD CUP RACE CANCELLED FOR SECOND SUCCESSIVE DAY". Eurosport. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  5. ^ a b Olympic Talk (9 December 2023). "Mikaela Shiffrin wins rare downhill for 91st World Cup victory". NBC Sports. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  6. ^ Associated Press (26 January 2024). "Mikaela Shiffrin taken away by ambulance after crash in Cortina during a World Cup downhill". NBC News. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  7. ^ Sportsbeat (16 December 2023). "JASMINE FLURY ADDS WORLD CUP SUCCESS IN VAL D'ISERE TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE - 'IT WAS A WILD RUN'". Eurosport. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  8. ^ Staff (13 January 2024). "Alpine ski World Cup 23/24: Sofia Goggia claims first downhill win of the season at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee - Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  9. ^ Dampf, Andrew (26 January 2024). "Stephanie Venier wins Cortina downhill, while Canada's Grenier part of three-way tie for bronze". CBC. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  10. ^ Dampf, Andrew (27 January 2024). "Norway's Mowinckel wins alpine ski downhill race ahead of US skier Wiles". 9 News Denver. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  11. ^ a b Associated Press (29 January 2024). "Warm temperatures prompt cancellation of World Cup ski races in Garmisch and Chamonix". MSN.com. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  12. ^ Associated Press (5 February 2024). "Top skier Sofia Goggia has season-ending surgery on right leg after training crash". CBC. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  13. ^ Staff (16 February 2024). "Alpine ski World Cup 23/24: Lara Gut-Behrami wins home Crans Montana Friday downhill on shortened course". Olympics.com. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  14. ^ Associated Press (17 February 2024). "Italian skier Marta Bassino dominates World Cup downhill. Overall leader Gut-Behrami finishes third". MSN.com. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  15. ^ a b Lange, Peter (1 March 2024). "Saturday Switch: Kvitfjell Women's World Cup Downhill Transforms into Super-G". skiracing.com. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  16. ^ Associated Press (23 March 2024). "Huetter wins World Cup downhill race to clinch her 1st title and deny Gut-Behrami her 4th of season". MSN.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  17. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup St. Moritz Women's DH (SUI)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  18. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val d'Isère Women's DH (FRA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  19. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Zauchensee Women's DH (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  20. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Cortina d'Ampezzo Women's DH (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  21. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Cortina d'Ampezzo Women's DH (ITA)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  22. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Crans-Montana Women's DH (SUI)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  23. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Crans-Montana Women's DH (SUI)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  24. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Saalbach Women's DH (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  25. ^ "Official FIS women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.

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