The women's downhill competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved nine events, including the season finale in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Defending champion Lindsey Vonn of the USA won five of the first six races in the season and, after finishing second in a race at La Thuile (the Italian side of Mont Blanc), wrapped the season title (her eighth in the discipline) with one race remaining -- which was fortunate, as Vonn suffered a season ending injury in the very next race (a Super-G). The downhill at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee was conducted in a rare two-run format due to the course having to be shortened, and 1970s World Cup great Annemarie Moser-Pröll was on hand to congratulate Vonn for equaling (and then surpassing) her all-time record total of World Cup downhill wins.
At the finals, oft-injured 28-year-old Canadian downhiller Larisa Yurkiw, who was just finishing her best season (having been in second place in the season standings (behind Vonn) before the finals and ending up in third), announced her retirement effective immediately.
Standings #Skier Tot. Lindsey Vonn100100DNF100100100DNF80DNS5802 Fabienne Suter408080DNS13805040804633 Larisa Yurkiw223660808050295004074 Lara Gut 4032100DNF1601810024203945 Cornelia Hütter806050602222801303876 Nadia Fanchini3250DNF188326010003007 2432184032603226DNF2648 Tina Weirather132045DNF25040400362449 Corinne Suter 11404522242622183224010 Laurenne Ross12102613124545451622411 Kajsa Kling204513503615DNF1029 21812 Mirjam Puchner 151832DNF229016010021013 Elisabeth Görgl2042029202026205020914 Edit Miklós992914403620321820715 Stacey Cook4524153216141272418916 Elena Curtoni822121110DNF36296018817 Johanna Schnarf14DNF0845824164516018 Margot Bailet506936000026 127 Ramona Siebenhofer 60DNF18DNF218DNF7DNF2412720 Verena Stuffer29124DNQ29DNF844012621 Nicole SchmidhoferDNF323645DNS11322 Daniela MerighettiDNS0163161060DNF10523 Francesca Marsaglia031126155636DNF10224 Elena Fanchini161621572913009825 Ilka Štuhec58242014DSQ1411096References
DNF = Did Not Finish DSQ = Disqualified DNS = Did not start DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2 (Altenmarkt only) DNF1 = Did Not Finish run 1 (Altenmarkt only) DNF2 = Did Not Finish run 2 (Altenmarkt only)
See also 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's combined
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