The women's downhill in the 2022 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of nine events including the finals. Defending champion Sofia Goggia of Italy, who won four of the five downhills in which she competed in 2020–21, continued her domination in 2021–22 by again winning four of the first five downhills. Goggia took a commanding lead in the discipline after American Breezy Johnson, who finished second in each of the first three downhills, missed the rest of the season with a knee injury. Goggia then suffered her own knee injury, including a broken bone and ligament tears, while training for the last downhill prior to the 2022 Winter Olympics, but she was able to continue competing within a month and, after all but the final race of the season, had such a commanding lead that only one other competitor (Corinne Suter of Switzerland) even had a theoretical possibility of overtaking her. At the finals, Suter failed to score, and Goggia won her second consecutive (and third overall) discipline championship.
As noted above, the season was interrupted by the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China (at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing District) from 6–19 February 2022. Although the Alpine Skiing branch of the International Ski Federation (FIS) conducts the World Cup and co-organizes the Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics (along with the International Olympic Committee {IOC)), the Winter Olympics are organized by nation (a maximum of four skiers is permitted per nation), and (after 1968) the Olympic results do not count for World Cup points. Accordingly, the results in the Olympics are highlighted in blue and shown in this table by ordinal position only in each discipline.The women's downhill was held at the "Rock" course on 15 February 2022.
The World Cup final took place on Wednesday, 16 March in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France, which are located in Les Trois Vallées, on the L'Eclipse course at Courchevel. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup downhill discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship, plus athletes who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, are eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 earn World Cup points. Because of the close race for the overall title, three athletes with 500+ overall points (Mikaela Shiffrin, Petra Vlhová, and Marta Bassino) entered the final, and one of them (Shiffrin, who had only raced two World Cup downhills all year) won it.
Standings Venue #SkierTotal Sofia Goggia100100100DNF100DNS②2260225042 Corinne Suter 4560403650100①265004073 Ester Ledecká 229DNS3260DNS㉗1008036 3394 Ramona Siebenhofer 502450608014⑫249203315 Mirjam Puchner 603260144520⑧45200 2966 Ragnhild Mowinckel 1115361532DNS⑭804540 2747 Priska Nufer 1834132218DNS50100292578 Nadia Delago 404032501145③181002469 Breezy Johnson 808080DNS24010 Christine Scheyer 164512262026DNS578023711 Kira Weidle 26360802650④DNS6022412 Cornelia Hütter 365015DNS60⑦600DNS22113 Joana Hählen 318107DNF32⑥40298021914 Federica Brignone 202624401213DNS14362420915 Lara Gut-Behrami148DNS10029DNS⑯DNF124520816 Michelle Gisin DNS26DNS40DNSDNS36325018417 Jasmine Flury290829880⑮916017918 1529DNF45329⑧3224017719 Elena Curtoni 91829201815⑤15182616820 Romane Miradoli 12202111424⑬12223214921 Ilka Štuhec 11154516244㉒051813822 Stephanie Venier 1411110822DNS1845012923 Ariane RädlerDNS122224DNS36DNS9110114 Tamara Tippler2422DNF4516⑲2914011425 Elisabeth Reisinger DNS22093640DNS40011126 Mikaela Shiffrin50DNS⑱DNS10010527 Nicol Delago 3210DNF2218DNF⑪12DNFNE9428 Laura Gauché07189109⑩2013NE8629 Nadine Fest651610112DNS138NE71References
Legend
DNF = Did Not Finish DSQ = Disqualified
See also 2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings 2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall 2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G 2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom 2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom 2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's parallel World Cup scoring system
References
External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website