2017 women's overall World Cup
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The women's overall in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 37 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 city; a super-combined consists of a downhill followed by a one-run slalom, as opposed to an Alpine combined, which consist of a Super-G followed by a one-run slalom.

Injuries affected several of the former overall champions at the start of the season. Two-time champion Anna Veith (née Fenninger) (2014-15) and four-time champion Lindsey Vonn (2008-09-10, '12) both missed the first half of the season due to injuries suffered during the previous season.[1][2] Veith also missed the end of the season to recover further from her injuries.[3] In addition, after a great start to the season, defending overall champion Lara Gut suffered a season-ending injury during the 2017 World Championships in early February, costing her a chance to repeat.[4]

As noted, the season was interrupted by the 2017 World Ski Championships, which were held from 6–20 February in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

At the end of the season, Mikaela Shiffrin, who also won the slalom discipline for the fourth time and was second in the giant slalom discipline, became the third American woman and fifth American overall to win the overall World Cup championship for a season, joining former men's champions Phil Mahre (1981-82-83) and Bode Miller (2005, '08) and women's champions Tamara McKinney (1983) and Vonn.[5]

The season finals were held in Aspen, Colorado for the first time -- and the first time in the United States since Vail, Colorado was the host in 1997, twenty years prior.

Standings

# Skier DH
8 races
SG
7 races
GS
9 races
SL
10 races
AC
3 races
Tot.
United States Mikaela Shiffrin 3370600840100 1,643
2 Slovenia Ilka Štuhec 5974303226240 1,325
3 Italy Sofia Goggia 460240405092 1,197
4  Switzerland  Lara Gut 36030036030 1,023
5 Italy Federica Brignone 6922237014220 895
6 France Tessa Worley 0167685018 870
7 Liechtenstein Tina Weirather 25643516600 857
8  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 0493455140 692
9 Germany Viktoria Rebensburg 22115327700 651
10 Slovakia Petra Vlhová 001784110 589
11 Slovakia Veronika Velez-Zuzulová 0005650 565
12 Norway Nina Løseth 001573620 519
13 Sweden Frida Hansdotter 00364320 468
14 Canada Marie-Michèle Gagnon 044156152100 452
15 Austria Nicole Schmidhofer 208240000 448
16 Austria Stephanie Venier 1572550022 434
17 Italy Elena Curtoni 5327173029 426
18 Italy Marta Bassino 030354029 413
19 United States Lindsey Vonn 280131000 411
20 Norway Ragnhild Mowinckel 5688188067 399
21 Czech Republic Šárka Strachová 0003940 394
22 Sweden Kajsa Kling 17515638014 383
23 Austria Bernadette Schild 00513200 371
24 Italy Johanna Schnarf 244920016 352
25 United States Laurenne Ross 2041130026 343
Austria Christine Scheyer 1961230024 343
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2017, after all events[6]

See also

References

  1. Zaccardi, Nick (26 December 2016). "Anna Veith sets return from major injury". NBCSports. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  2. "Lindsey Vonn's World Cup return on hold in Austria". CNN. 14 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  3. Zaccardi, Nick (24 February 2017). "Anna Veith ends season early as Austrian injuries pile up". NBC Sports. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  4. Coulson, Kevin (10 February 2017). "Lara Gut suffers season-ending knee injury as Holdener wins historic Combined title, Vonn fifth". Eurosport. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  5. Zaccardi, Nick (8 March 2017). "Mikaela Shiffrin pursues World Cup overall title this weekend". NBC Sports. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  6. "Official FIS 2017 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
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