The International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup is the premier circuit for alpine skiing competition. The inaugural FIS World Cup season launched in January 1967 and this 51st season began on 22 October 2016 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded in the United States at Aspen on 19 March 2017. The biennial World Championships interrupted the tour in early February in Saint Moritz, Switzerland."2017 Alpine Ski Championships". St. Moritz Hosting Committee. The season-ending finals in March were held in North America for the first time in two decades: the last finale in the U.S. was in 1997 at Vail.
Chief Race Director for the WC Tour, Markus Waldner, offered his pre-season thoughts on the pending 2016-17 tour in an early October interview. He addressed: early season scheduling and weather considerations, the growing global interest in alpine skiing beyond the core market in Europe and Scandinavia, the balance between what disciplines were scheduled and the marketability concerns each present, course construction that is safely competitive and manages risk, and a new change to regulation that allows top qualifiers to pick their starting position across a much wider range of bibs between 1 and 19.
Former overall World Cup champion Tina Maze of Slovenia, who missed the entire 2015-16 World Cup season, retired in January 2017. At the end of the season, former two-time overall World Cup champion Bode Miller of the United States, who had not raced in the last two seasons, also officially retired. Summary
Men
Calendar + Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, AC – Alpine combined, CE – City Event (Parallel), PG – Parallel giant slalomDatePlaceWinnerSecondThirdDetails1637123 October 2016 Sölden Alexis Pinturault Marcel Hirscher Felix Neureuther1638213 November 2016 Levi Marcel Hirscher Michael Matt Manfred Mölgg 26 November 2016 Lake LouiseDH cnx warm temperatures and lack of snow on lower course; replaced in Kvitfjell on 24 February 201727 November 2016 SG cnx warm temperatures and lack of snow on lower course; replaced in Santa Caterina on 27 December 2016 2 December 2016 Beaver CreekDH cnx warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Val d'Isère on 3 December 20163 December 2016 SG cnx warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Val d'Isère on 2 December 20164 December 2016 GS cnx warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Val d'Isère on 4 December 2016163932 December 2016 Val d'Isère Kjetil Jansrud Aksel Lund Svindal Dominik Paris164043 December 2016 Kjetil Jansrud Peter Fill Aksel Lund Svindal164154 December 2016 GS 391 Mathieu Faivre Marcel Hirscher Alexis Pinturault 1642610 December 2016 GS 392 Alexis Pinturault Marcel Hirscher Henrik Kristoffersen1643711 December 2016 SL 461 Henrik Kristoffersen Marcel Hirscher Aleksandr Khoroshilov1644816 December 2016 Val GardenaSG 194 Kjetil Jansrud Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Erik Guay1645917 December 2016 DH 464 Max Franz Aksel Lund Svindal Steven Nyman16461018 December 2016 Alta BadiaGS 393 Marcel Hirscher Mathieu Faivre Florian Eisath16471119 December 2016 Cyprien Sarrazin Carlo Janka Kjetil Jansrud16481222 December 2016 Madonna di CampiglioSL 462 Henrik Kristoffersen Marcel Hirscher Stefano Gross16491327 December 2016 Santa CaterinaSG 195 Kjetil Jansrud Hannes Reichelt Dominik Paris 28 December 2016 DH cnx excessive high winds16501429 December 2016 Alexis Pinturault Marcel Hirscher Aleksander Aamodt Kilde1651155 January 2017 ZagrebSL 463 Manfred Mölgg Felix Neureuther Henrik Kristoffersen1652167 January 2017 AdelbodenAdelboden Hill Layout For SL and GS . Adelboden World Cup Committee. January 2016GS 394 Alexis Pinturault Marcel Hirscher Philipp Schörghofer1653178 January 2017 SL 464 Henrik Kristoffersen Manfred Mölgg Marcel Hirscher16541813 January 2017 WengenAC 127 Niels Hintermann Maxence Muzaton Frederic Berthold 14 January 2017 DH cnx excess snow; replaced in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 27 January 201716551915 January 2017 SL 465 Henrik Kristoffersen Marcel Hirscher Felix Neureuther 16562020 January 2017 KitzbühelSG 196 Matthias Mayer Christof Innerhofer Beat Feuz 16572121 January 2017 DH 465 Dominik Paris Valentin Giraud Moine Johan Clarey 16582222 January 2017 SL 466 Marcel Hirscher Dave Ryding Aleksandr Khoroshilov16592324 January 2017 SchladmingSL 467 Henrik Kristoffersen Marcel Hirscher Aleksandr Khoroshilov16602427 January 2017 Garmisch-PartenkirchenDH 466 Travis Ganong Kjetil Jansrud Peter Fill 16612528 January 2017 DH 467 Hannes Reichelt Peter Fill Beat Feuz 16622629 January 2017 GS 395 Marcel Hirscher Matts Olsson Stefan Luitz 16632731 January 2017 Stockholm Linus Straßer Alexis Pinturault Mattias Hargin World Championships (6–19 February)16642824 February 2017 KvitfjellDH 468 Boštjan Kline Matthias Mayer Kjetil Jansrud 16652925 February 2017 DH 469 Kjetil Jansrud Peter Fill Beat Feuz 16663026 February 2017 SG 197 Peter Fill Hannes Reichelt Erik Guay 1667314 March 2017 Kranjska GoraGS 396 Marcel Hirscher Leif Kristian Haugen Matts Olsson 1668325 March 2017 SL 468 Michael Matt Stefano Gross Felix Neureuther 16693315 March 2017 AspenDH 470 Dominik Paris Peter Fill Carlo Janka 16703416 March 2017 SG 198 Hannes Reichelt Dominik Paris Mauro Caviezel Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 16713518 March 2017 GS 397 Marcel Hirscher Felix Neureuther Mathieu Faivre 16723619 March 2017 SL 469 André Myhrer Felix Neureuther Michael Matt
Rankings
Overall Rankafter all 36 races Leaderboard - Men's Overall. International Ski Federation. current season.Points 1 Marcel Hirscher 1599 2 Kjetil Jansrud 924 3 Henrik Kristoffersen 903 4 Alexis Pinturault 875 5 Felix Neureuther 790
Downhill Rankafter all 8 races Leaderboard - Men's Downhill. International Ski Federation. current season.Points 1 Peter Fill 454 2 Kjetil Jansrud 431 3 Dominik Paris 371 4 Beat Feuz 259 5 Erik Guay 255
Super G Rankafter all 6 races Leaderboard - Men's Super G. International Ski Federation. current season.Points 1 Kjetil Jansrud 394 2 Hannes Reichelt 303 3 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 299 4 Dominik Paris 277 5 Peter Fill 226
Giant slalom Rankafter all 9 races Leaderboard - Men's giant slalom. International Ski Federation. current season.Points 1 Marcel Hirscher 733 2 Mathieu Faivre 440 3 Alexis Pinturault 439 4 Felix Neureuther 370 5 Henrik Kristoffersen 328
Slalom Rankafter all 11 races Leaderboard - Men's slalom. International Ski Federation. current season.Points 1 Marcel Hirscher 735 2 Henrik Kristoffersen 575 3 Manfred Mölgg 476 4 Felix Neureuther 420 5 Michael Matt 382
Alpine combined Rankafter all 2 races Leaderboard - Men's Combined. International Ski Federation. current season.Points 1 Alexis Pinturault 111 2 Niels Hintermann 100 3 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 92 4 Justin Murisier 86 5 Marcel Hirscher 80 5 Maxence Muzaton 80
Women Summary
The women typically have had technical events in the U.S. in late November in Colorado at Aspen, but instead stopped this season in Vermont at Killington for its first effort as a World Cup venue. The most recent World Cup races in the Eastern U.S. were over a quarter century earlier, in March 1991 at Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire and the last World Cup races in Vermont were in 1978 at Stratton Mountain Resort. The women also had two Olympic venue orientation speed events in South Korea at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in March, which produced identical podiums led by Sofia Goggia.
Injuries continued to affect several of the top racers. Two-time overall champion Anna Veith (née Fenninger) and three-time overall champion Lindsey Vonn both missed the first half of the season due to injuries suffered during the previous season, although both returned by mid-January and competed in the World Championships in early February. However, Veith then missed the end of the season as well to recover further from her injuries. In addition, defending overall champion Lara Gut suffered a season-ending injury during the World Championships, costing her a chance to repeat.
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, became the third American woman and fifth American overall to win the overall World Cup championship, joining men's champions Phil Mahre and Bode Miller and women's champions Tamara McKinney and Vonn. Additionally, women's super G champion Tina Weirather became a second-generation discipline champion, as her father (Harti Weirather) was downhill discipline champion in 1981 and both her mother (Hanni Wenzel) and uncle (Andreas Wenzel) won the overall World Cup championship. Weirather and her mother thus became the first mother-daughter pair to win season trophies in World Cup competition.
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