2016 women's overall World Cup
  • Lara Gut of Switzerland, season champion
Previous: 2015 Next: 2017

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.

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

# Skier DH
9 races		 SG
8 races		 GS
9 races		 SL
11 races		 AC
3 races		 Tot.
 Switzerland  Lara Gut 39448147215160 1,522
2 United States Lindsey Vonn 58042012015100 1,235
3 Germany Viktoria Rebensburg 26429359000 1,147
4 Liechtenstein Tina Weirather 244436321150 1,016
5 Sweden Frida Hansdotter 002047110 915
6  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 0751561198 817
7 Austria Cornelia Hütter 3874000024 811
8 Italy Federica Brignone 92764252750 787
9 Norway  Nina Løseth 002923730 665
10 United States Mikaela Shiffrin 0189850032 648
 Switzerland  Fabienne Suter 463185000 648
12 Austria Eva-Maria Brem 00592550 647
13 Slovakia Veronika Velez-Zuzulová 0006260 626
14 Italy Nadia Fanchini 30017114700 618
15 Austria Michaela Kirchgasser 04179280153 616
16 Canada Marie-Michèle Gagnon 08174271145 598
17 Sweden Kajsa Kling 21821563044 540
18 United States Laurenne Ross 2242500052 526
19 Sweden Maria Pietilä-Holmner 002042920 496
20 Czech Republic Šárka Strachová 0004930 493
21 Italy Johanna Schnarf 1602160090 466
22 Canada Larisa Yurkiw 40758000 465
23 Italy Elena Curtoni 18815382032 455
24 Slovakia Petra Vlhová 00183890 407
25 Italy Francesca Marsaglia 10214588065 400
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2016, after all events[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Associated Press (22 October 2015). "Fenniger Out for Season after Crash in Austria". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Tina Maze temporarily suspends her career". RTV. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Lindsey Vonn: Back on the slopes after suffering dogfight injury". CNN.com. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Staff (12 December 2015). "Skiing-Olympic champ Shiffrin heads home with knee injury". Reuters. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Staff (8 February 2016). "Mikaela Shiffrin announces mid-February return to the World Cup". Ski-Racing Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Hall, Gabbi (2 March 2016). "Lindsey Vonn ends season early after revised injury diagnosis". Ski-Racing Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  7. ↑ Majendie, Matt (15 March 2016). "Lara Gut: Family affair pushes Swiss skier to new heights". Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Official FIS 2016 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.