The women's overall competition in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (9 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (11 races). The fifth and sixth disciplines, parallel (PAR). and Alpine combined (AC), had all events in the 2022–23 season cancelled, either due to the schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic (AC) or due to bad weather (PAR). The original schedule called for 42 races, but in addition to the parallel, two downhills and a super-G were cancelled during the season.
The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France, which are located in Les Trois Vallées, from 6–19 February 2023.
Season summary From the very first race of the season, defending champion (and four-time overall champion) Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States seized the lead in the standings due to her abilities in all four disciplines. After the first thirteen races, she had built over a 300-point lead over 2021 overall champion Petra Vlhová of Slovakia. In addition, with her victory in a slalom at Semmering, Austria on December 29, Shiffrin, 27, became only the third skier (and second woman) to win 80 World Cup races, as well as the first ever to win 50 races in a single discipline.
After 24 races, almost two-thirds of the season, Shiffrin held a lead of over 500 points over Vlhová, with 2016 overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland close behind in third; however, the focus of the moment was on Shiffrin's quest to break Lindsey Vonn's all-time women's record of 82 World Cup victories (which she had already tied) and then Ingemar Stenmark's all-time overall record of 86 such victories. She shattered Vonn's record with victories in back-to-back giant slaloms in Kronplatz on 24–25 January, increasing her overall lead (now with Gut-Behrami in second) to over 600 points.
By the end of January, which was the time for the break for the 2023 World Ski Championships, Shiffrin had 11 wins on the season (1 in super-G and 5 each in giant slalom and slalom) and 85 wins for her career. Shiffrin's fifth-place finish in a downhill at Kvitfjell on 4 March was sufficient to clinch the season championship, although there were still seven races left in the season. The overall title represented Shiffrin's fifth, tying her with Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli, who also won five, and placed her behind only two Austrians: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who won six in the 1970s, and Marcel Hirscher, who won eight in a row in the 2010s.
Shiffrin's later victories in both a giant slalom and a slalom at Åre, Sweden (her sixth of the season in each discipline) enabled her to equal and then break Ingemar Stenmark's all-time overall record of 86 World Cup wins (with 87), as well as tying Vreni Schneider's all-time women's record of 20 giant slalom victories (to go along with her all-time record 53 slalom wins, plus 5 super-Gs, 5 parallels, 3 downhills, and 1 combined). And to top the season off a week later, Shiffrin won the giant slalom at finals, breaking Schneider's women's career victory record in that discipline with 21 and also breaking Lindsey Vonn's record for career World Cup podiums with 138 (in only her 249th World Cup start).
Indicative of the degree of specialization in the World Cup this season (despite the end of the COVID separation between the speed skiers and the technical skiers) is that Shiffrin was the only skier, male or female, to place in the top 25 in all four disciplines, and only four women and one man even scored points in all four disciplines: Shiffrin, Federica Brignone (#4), Michelle Gisin (#13), and Franziska Gritsch (#23) among the women, and Marco Schwarz (#7) among the men.
Finals The last events of the season took place at the World Cup finals, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 through Sunday, 19 March 2023 in Soldeu, Andorra. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship in each discipline were eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that any skier who has scored at least 500 points in the overall classification was eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of her standing in that discipline for the season.
Standings #SkierDHSGGSSLTotal Mikaela Shiffrin2212408009452,2062 Lara Gut-Behrami 27241353201,2173 Petra Vlhová904866301,1254 Federica Brignone 21836847671,0695 Sofia Goggia740176009166 Ragnhild Mowinckel22636631109037 Wendy Holdener0741296558588 Marta Bassino3420051507499 Elena Curtoni3083580066610 Sara Hector0039324363611 Ilka Štuhec551510060212 Corinne Suter3092593057113 Michelle Gisin 1401986115355214 Cornelia Hütter1653470051215 Paula Moltzan0020929750616 Tessa Worley 0172328050017 Lena Dürr00049349318 Anna Swenn-Larsson00047047019 Mirjam Puchner2731890046220 Thea Louise Stjernesund0023617040621 Ana Bucik0014625940522 Kira Weidle25015100 40123 Franziska Gritsch39612017239124 Joana Hählen 22016600 38625 Valérie Grenier030354038426 Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 24610600 35227 Leona Popović00034934928 Jasmine Flury1851570034229 Nina Ortlieb2291070033630 Ramona Siebenhofer11114964032431 Alice Robinson3472207031332 Stephanie Venier1131630027633 Mina Fürst Holtmann0013612726334 Katharina Truppe003722225935 Breezy Johnson222270024936 Laura Gauché150970024737 Romane Miradoli82161302463800024024039009413823240 Emma Aicher4859011021741 Zrinka Ljutić001819020842 Laura Pirovano13671002074301199020044 Maria Therese Tviberg 009410319745 Priska Nufer139440018346 Isabella Wright154220017647 Martina Dubovská00016816848 Tamara Tippler897100160 Ricarda Haaser022138016050 Laurence St. Germain00015815851 Ali Nullmeyer00015615652 Camille Rast00489714553 Nicole Schmidhofer151200013554 Jessica Hilzinger00013313355 Christina Ager942900 12356 Amelia Smart00011711757 Nicol Delago10590011458 Coralie Frasse Sombet00101010159 Elena Stoffel000959560 Andrea Ellenberger009309361 Neja Dvornik0022648662 Stephanie Brunner008408463 Nastasia Noens000808064 Julia Scheib007907965 Roberta Melesi0403807866 Marie-Michèle Gagnon2057007767 Katharina Huber008667468 Estelle Alphand007107169 Mélanie Meillard000707070 Nina O'Brien006806871 Nicole Good000676772 Ariane Rädler442100 6573 Stephanie Jenal32320064 Andrea Filser0006464 Aline Danioth000646476 Marta Rossetti000616177 Elizabeth Kappaurer006006078 Lara Colturi005365979 Delia Durrer487005580 Juliana Suter27240051
See also 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall World Cup scoring system
References
External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website