FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The Alpine Ski World Cup is a full registered by the FIS international competition in alpine skiing, which is held during the winter months in the northern hemisphere ( end of October to March). The first Ski World Cup was held in 1967.

5.1 crystal Balls
5.2 wins this season
5.3 points
5.4 race
5.5 Team

7.1 Men
7.2 Women

9.1 Departure
9.2 Super -G
9.3 Giant Slalom
9.4 slalom
9.5 ( super) combination

Formation

The idea for the Alpine Ski World Cup, the French sports journalist Serge Lang, the implementation of this idea was mainly supported by the former team manager of France ( Honore Bonnet ) and the USA (Bob Beattie ) decided at the Seidlalm in Kitzbühel in the winter of 1966. Reminded a brass plaque that hangs there since 1996, the right of the entrance.

Rating

The best 30 athletes and athletes of every race get points according to a World Cup FIS points system, which was revised in the course of the World Cup story several times, and has remained unchanged since 1994.

At the end of World Cup season a large crystal ball to the runner or the runner is awarded with the most points from all races ever. In the individual disciplines own points tables are maintained. For the winners of the ratings Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom and (since 1986 ) Super -G there are small crystal balls. For the ( super) composite score was also awarded a small crystal globe between 2007 and 2012. She closed the last remaining classic combination at the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel with.

Moreover, a country ranking is performed ( the Nation ) for each season; while the points of all runners of a nation be added together.

The trophies of lead crystal have been manufactured since 1987 by the glassworks Joska ground corn.

The race of the Olympic Winter Games and the Alpine Ski World Championships will not be counted for the World Cup since 1972. Therefore, exceptions were the results of the Olympic Games of 1968 in Grenoble and the World Championships 1970 in Val Gardena, which were also counted for the World Cup.

Venues

The vast majority of races take place in Europe each season a guest of the World Cup also in some stations in Canada and the United States. In some years, individual competitions in Japan and South Korea are held, also in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand there have been World Cup races.

In the history of the World Cup, some places have established particularly as the organizer of the race. Traditional ski slopes for men are:

The slope Oreiller - Killy in Val d'Isere, France
The Saslong in Val Gardena, Italy Italy
The Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen, Switzerland Switzerland
The Streif in Kitzbühel, Austria Austria
The Kandahar Garmisch, Germany Germany

Especially demanding giant slalom will take place:

On the Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden, Switzerland Switzerland
On the Gran Risa in Alta Badia, Italy Italy
On the slopes Podkoren in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

The slalom with the most viewers since the 1990s those on the Planai in Schladming, also Kitzbühel and Wengen are known for their slalom slopes. The traditional slalom at Madonna di Campiglio was considered one of the most beautiful and challenging in the World Cup circuit; he was held until 2005 frequently (though not every year ), but since then only once in December 2012. For every year since 2006 in addition to the giant slalom down a slalom in Adelboden, and since 2008 demanding slalom will be held in Zagreb.

Kitzbühel, Wengen and Val d'Isere have been held most World Cup race of men. Most of the ladies competitions were held in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Val d'Isere and Maribor.

Start of the Season

The respective World Cup season begins in late October with a glacier races since the 1990s. Driving is on the Rettenbachferner above Sölden in the Ötztal, which initially alternated as the organizer with Tignes. The first two World Cup seasons in the late 1960s, which were opened in early January. In the 1970s, was the criterion of the first snow, which takes place every December in Val d'Isere, traditionally the prelude to the World Cup winter.

Urban contests

Already in previous years and decades there have been occasional promotional competitions in major cities ( among others on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1986 on the Teufelsberg or 2009 before the Olympic Games 2010 in Moscow). 2011 then a so-called City event was organized as an official part of the World Cup for the first time. Here, a parallel slalom will be held on a suitable hill or an artificial ramp. First event was held on January 2, 2011, the Olympic mountain in Munich. The inferior sporting quality in comparison to the classic World Cup slopes to justify the attractiveness of direct duels, being close to the audience and economic considerations. In the City Events only 16 racers and stretcher are eligible and awarded World Cup points will be credited for the overall World Cup and since the 2012/13 season for the Slalom World Cup.

World Cup Final

Since 1993 takes place at the end of each season a World Cup finals with their own rules: At a venue to be discharged within four to five days for women and men each a departure, a super -G, giant slalom and a slalom. In each race, only the top 25 runners in the respective discipline ratings are eligible. In addition there are those runners who have at least 500 points in the overall standings ( 400 points until the season 2008/ 09) and the current Junior World Champion in the respective discipline. In the competitions of the World Cup finals, only the top 15 runners receive World Cup points.

Since 2006, a team competition is held at the World Cup finals.

Organizers of the World Cup Final:

2001 Åre, Sweden Sweden
2002 Altenmarkt, Austria Austria
2003 Lillehammer, Norway Norway
2004 Sestriere, Italy Italy **
2005 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Switzerland
2006 Åre, Sweden Sweden *
2007 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Switzerland
2008 Bormio, Italy Italy

2009 Åre, Sweden Sweden
2010 Garmisch -Partenkirchen, Germany Germany *
2011 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Switzerland
2012 Schladming, Austria Austria *
2013 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Switzerland
2014 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Switzerland
2015 Meribel, France
2016 St. Moritz, Switzerland Switzerland *

* Dress rehearsal for the World Championships the following year ** Rehearsal for the Olympic Winter Games in the following year

Even in the early years of the world cup, there was sometimes a World Cup final, in which the scoring was partly regulated differently than in the other course of the season. There was talk of inflation points: instead of the top 15 athletes were given the top 25 World Cup points. The winner got as was usual at 25 points, the second in contrast to the rest of the season but 24, the third 23, etc.

Records

Crystal Balls

The Austrian Annemarie Moser -Pröll won the crystal globe for the overall World Cup six times, the launching of Luxembourg Austrian Marc Girardelli five times.
Pirmin Zurbriggen has so far only athlete than five of the six discipline ratings in a season (1986 /87) won ( downhill, super -G, giant slalom and combined, the overall World Cup ), but was at that time not yet assigned the crystal ball for the Alpine combined.
Lindsey Vonn won the first runner four crystal balls in a season, twice (2009/10 and 2011 /12).
In the men this Hermann Maier also succeeded twice (1999/2000 and 2000/ 01).
Tina Maze won the 2012/13 the total score and three other discipline ratings (for the super combined was no ball awarded), in the other two disciplines downhill and slalom, she took two place.

Season wins

With regard to the victories of the season, leads the women's Vreni Schneider with 14 wins from the 1988/89 season, while in the men's Ingemar Stenmark (1978 /79) and Hermann Maier (2000/ 2001) cite with 13 wins this season the standings.

Points

The points record holder Tina Maze with 2414 points, which she set up in the 2012/13 season.
The record in the men holding Hermann Maier, who scored a total of 2000 World Cup points in the season 1999/2000.
The second and third highest score in a winter reached Eberharter in the 2001/ 02 season with 1702 points and Paul Accola, who was able to record 1991/92 1699 points in the season.
In the women's Lindsey Vonn achieved with 1980 points in the season 2011/ 12, the second highest number of points, Janica Kostelic won 2005/ 06 1970 points.
In the Nations Cup Austria holds with 19,110 points from the 1999/2000 season the points record.

Race

Most directly one behind the other races held won in the men's Jean -Claude Killy in the 1967 season ( six wins in a row, and even twice this season: from 9 to 27 January 1967 with three runs, two slalom and a giant slalom from 4 to 24 March 1967, two runs, a slalom and giant slalom three ) and in the women's Vreni Schneider in the 1988/89 season ( eight victories in a series of 16 December 1988 to 8 January 1989, four slaloms, three giant slaloms and a combination thereof; came to her looking towards that during this period no exit and no super-G took place and that they simultaneously won the slalom in Altenmarkt on 16 December 1988, the combined score of downhill and slalom, but also with seven race wins in series they would be unchallenged in the lead ).
Most races one discipline after another won in the men's Ingemar Stenmark (14 giant slaloms in series, including all ten of the 1978/79 season and the last of the previous season and the first three of the following season), the women's Annemarie Moser -Pröll (Elf departures in series, including all eight of the 1972/73 season and the first three of the following season).
On January 19, 2013 Johan Clarey reached the highest ever measured velocity in the Alpine Ski World Cup in downhill in Wengen with 161.9 km / h. The highest average speed in a World Cup race achieved with 112.37 km / h, Armin at the departure on 15 March 1993 in the Sierra Nevada.

Team

In the 1998/99 season, the Austrian ski team of men scored in the Super G from Innsbruck on the Patscherkofel a nine-time success, which has remained unmatched.
In the season 1969/70 the French women's team finished second in the overall World Cup ranking the first four places, which was exceeded in the 1986/87 season with a five-fold success of the Swiss people. In the men there were in the standings two triple success by the Austrian ski team in the seasons 1997/98 and 2003/04.
If the first places overall were to be distributed to as many different nations, then in each case, a new record was set in the men in the 2012/13 season and the ladies in the 2013/14 season as runners from seven different nations on the first seven places were. Until then, the high-water mark was six: in the men were 1978/79, 1979/80 and 1988/ 89, the top six runners from various nations occupied, in the women's 1978/79 and 2002/ 03.
That were recovered in a season of World Cup and all the individual disciplines of the same nation, came several times before: In the men in the 1967 season by France and 1997/98 by Austria, in the women's 1969/70 by France, 1986/87 by the Switzerland and 2006/ 07 by Austria.

Each with the start number 66 won in the 1993/94 World Cup season Liechtenstein Markus Foser and the Slovenian Katja Koren a World Cup race. After seven races, where Foser could place never better than rank 24, he succeeded on 17 December 1993 at the downhill skiing in Val Gardena one of the biggest surprises in the history of the World Cup. Aided by the high start number went Foser best time and duped his opponents. The reason for this was that with the progress of the race came out the sun behind the Sasso Lungo and especially the upper part of the track was faster through the sunlight.
Koren won on 22 December 1993 with the start number 66 as surprising the Super -G in Flachau.

List of winners

A list of all crystal ball winner and final results of the Nations Cup of each season since 1967 can be found in:

Crystal Ball winners since 1967
Crystal Ball winners since 1967
Nations Cup since 1967

Leaderboard

The following " best list" refers to the Alpine Skiing World Cup, which was introduced in 1967; some of the cited therein runners have already pre-1967 major race, but did not count for the World Cup and therefore not included in these statistics (in particular Jean -Claude Killy and Karl Schranz ). In addition, there was excellent skier, who ended her career before the introduction of the World Cup and therefore do not appear here - for example, Toni Sailer, in the years 1956-1958 three -time Olympic champion and seven -time world champion, and Christl Cranz, in the years 1934-1939 twelve gold medals won at the world championships - or who have finished their career so soon after the introduction of the World Cup that they have not reached ten world Cup victories to appear in this list, such as Marielle Goitschel, 1962-1968 two time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time world champion, winner of six world Cup races and the first world Cup 1967 Second overall with only four points behind the winner Nancy Greene.

Still active racers are highlighted in the tables below in bold.

Gentlemen

1 The Super-G was introduced in the 1982/83 season in the World Cup. 2 The parallel slalom victories by Gustav Thöni ( season 1974/75 ), Ivica Kostelic ( 2010/11 ) and Marcel Hirscher (season 2012 /13) will be counted in the slalom column. 3 The super combined (since the 2005/ 06 season) is counted combination in the column.

As of March 16, 2014

* The three victories by Jean -Claude Killy in the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble, as well as the victories of Bernhard Russi in the departure of Karl Schranz in the giant slalom and by Jean -Noël Augert in the slalom of the 1970 World Cup in Val Gardena are included in this table with.

Ladies

1 The Super-G was introduced in the 1982/83 season in the World Cup. 2 The parallel slalom victories by Monika Kaserer ( season 1974/75 ) and Hilde Gerg ( 1997/ 98) will be counted in the slalom column. 3 The super combined (since the 2005/ 06 season) is counted combination in the column.

As of March 16, 2014

* The giant slalom victory of Nancy Greene at the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble is included in this table with.

Winner in all disciplines

So far it has five men and six women managed to win the World Cup in all five disciplines. The super combined and the classic version of the combination are added together.

As of March 10, 2013

Notes:

Janica Kostelic, Kronberger, Girardelli and Maze have been able to celebrate victories in all disciplines in one season. Bode Miller succeeded within one year, divided into two seasons.
The discipline World Cup no one has won in all five disciplines. The next came Girardelli, the three times was second in the rating discipline in the Super- G and won the other five World Cup ratings, including overall World Cup at least once.
Zurbriggen won in all disciplines except for the slalom in 1987 and so far the only ski racer in a season four of five World Cups discipline ( downhill, super -G, giant slalom and combined ) and to the World Cup.
Maze was able to classify in all disciplines under the two best in the 2012/13 season. She won the overall World Cup, the Super - G World Cup, the giant slalom and super combined World Cup, it was just second in the downhill and slalom at the World Cup.
Aamodt won all World Cup discipline except in the downhill.
Miller could also catch up with this elite circle, as he previously won the World Cup ratings in three disciplines (Super -G, Giant Slalom, combination -incl. Super combined ) and in each discipline was at least second in the respective World Cup standings.
Lindsey Vonn also won the previous three World Cup discipline ( downhill, super -G and super combined ) and was in the giant slalom World Cup or at least second in the slalom World Cup once third parties.
Jean -Claude Killy won 1967 votes all discipline, then there were only three ( downhill, slalom, giant slalom ).

In addition to these people, there are eight more who have won in 1983 in all their time driven disciplines before the introduction of the Super -G:

* Hanni Wenzel won their first departure in December 1983, when the World Cup is already the first Super -G race had been driven ( in January 1983 she had a second place in the Super G in Verbier won ); however, will be awarded for the contest Super -G only since the winter 1985/86 own a crystal ball, and Hanni Wenzel ended its racing activities in 1984.

Michèle Jacot ** and Reinhard Tritscher ended her career in 1975, respectively: in the season 1974/75 combinations were evaluated for the first time in the World Cup, from which they could not win. Annemarie Moser -Pröll and Hanni Wenzel also won combinations, all the others in this list ended her career before the introduction of combination in the World Cup. My crystal ball for the combined score there is only since the winter 2006/07.

Leaderboards in the individual disciplines

Departure

As of January 24, 2014

Super -G

As of March 13, 2014

Giant Slalom

As of March 15, 2014

1 When Jean- Claude Killy his victory in the Olympic giant slalom in Grenoble was counted in 1968, as this was considered for the World Cup.

Slalom

As of March 16, 2014

1 At Jean -Noël Augert his victory in the World Cup slalom in Val Gardena 1970 is counted, as this was considered for the World Cup. 2 When Marcel Hirscher his victory in Parallelrennnen of Moscow in 2013 counted, as this was also scored for the Slalom World Cup.

(Super - ) combination

As of January 27, 2013

Most wins in a season

As of March 17, 2011

Points Records

The following table shows how many points enough for victory in the overall standings. The points for second or third place in the overall standings are not considered here - that has achieved eg Lindsey Vonn in 2011 as Second 1725 points, of which it has its third best result significantly exceeded in this list and was up to seventh place before Alexandra Meissnitzer. Benjamin Raich in 2005 had accumulated for his second place in the overall standings 1454 points, significantly more than for his overall victory in 2006; were achieved in the 1410 points would not be enough for the Top Ten, as well as Kjetil Andre Aamodt for his second places in 1999 and 2000 with 1442 and 1440 reached more points than his overall victory in 1994.

As of March 17, 2013

Notes:

In the season 1991/92 there was a change in the scoring. Until then initially received only the best 10, and later the top 15 runners in a World Cup points race, the winner of 25 points; since the best 30 runners points, the winner 100 points.

A separate table for the period before 1991/92 would not really meaningful because the regulations have been amended several times. How could, for example, in the very first World Cup year ( 1967) Jean -Claude Killy reach the maximum number of points possible at that time; but as only the top three results for each discipline ( downhill, slalom and giant slalom) counted, could it achieved its 3 x 75 = 225 points of subsequent winners of Appreciation are frequently exceeded, as they more results were taken into account.

In the top ten of the men, Hermann Maier Bode Miller was able to place three times, twice. In the women's only Lindsey Vonn was able to place three times in the top ten.

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