1985 Alpine Skiing World Cup

The 19th World Cup season began in December 1984 in Italy and concluded in March 1985 in the United States. The overall champions were Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg and Michela Figini of Switzerland.

A break in the schedule was for the 1985 World Championships, held in Bormio, northern Italy between January 31 and February 10, 1985. These were the first world championships held in an odd-numbered year.

Men

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Slalom	Sestriere	Italy	December 2, 1984
2	Super G	Puy St. Vincent	France	December 7, 1984
3	Giant	Puy St. Vincent	France	December 8, 1984
4	Slalom	Sestriere	Italy	December 10, 1984
5	Giant	Sestriere	Italy	December 11, 1984
6	Downhill	Val Gardena	Italy	December 15, 1984
7	Slalom	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 16, 1984
8	Super G	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 17, 1984
9	Combined	Race 7 and 8
10	Slalom	Bad Wiessee	West Germany	January 4, 1985
11	Slalom	La Mongie	France	January 6, 1985
12	Giant	Schladming	Austria	January 8, 1985
13	Downhill	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 11, 1985
14	Combined	Race 2 and 13
15	Downhill	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 12, 1985
16	Slalom	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 13, 1985
17	Combined	Race 15 and 16
18	Giant	Adelboden	Switzerland	January 15, 1985
19	Downhill	Wengen	Switzerland	January 19, 1985
20	Downhill	Wengen	Switzerland	January 20, 1985
21	Slalom	Wengen	Switzerland	January 21, 1985
22	Combined	Race 19 or 20 and 21
23	Downhill	Garmisch	West Germany	January 26, 1985
24	Super G	Garmisch	West Germany	January 27, 1985
25	Combined	Race 23 and 24
26	Downhill	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	February 14, 1985
27	Giant	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	February 15, 1985
28	Slalom	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	February 16, 1985
29	Downhill	Furano	Japan	March 2, 1985
30	Super G	Furano	Japan	March 3, 1985
31	Downhill	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 9, 1985
32	Giant	Aspen, CO	United States	March 10, 1985
33	Downhill	Panorama, BC	Canada	March 16, 1985
34	Super G	Panorama, BC	Canada	March 17, 1985
35	Slalom	Park City, Utah	United States	March 20, 1985
36	Slalom	Heavenly Valley, California	United States	March 23, 1985

Men's overall results

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In Men's Overall World Cup 1984/85 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms/Super G, best five slaloms and best three combined count. 27 racers had a point deduction.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant Super G	Slalom	Combined
1	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	262	17	120	125	0
2	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	244	79	102	38	25
3	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	172	1	31	75	65
4	Peter Müller	Switzerland	156	105	4	0	47
5	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	137	73	9	0	55
6	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	135	0	49	78	8
7	Thomas Bürgler	Switzerland	131	0	90	16	25
8	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	116	110	0	0	6
9	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	111	80	0	0	31
10	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	101	0	22	69	10
	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	101	59	25	0	17
	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	101	17	52	0	32
13	Karl Alpiger	Switzerland	100	80	10	0	10
14	Max Julen	Switzerland	97	0	56	26	15
15	Martin Hangl	Switzerland	93	0	69	11	13
16	Peter Lüscher	Switzerland	92	41	12	0	39
	Oswald Tötsch	Italy	92	0	27	57	8
18	Robert Erlacher	Italy	91	0	73	18	0
19	Hans Enn	Austria	80	0	67	0	13
	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	80	0	0	80	0

Men's Downhill results

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In Men's Downhill World Cup 1984/85 the best 5 results count. 11 racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	6	13	15	19	20	23	26	29	31	33
1	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	110	25	(12)	20	25	(12)	25	(3)	(3)	(12)	15
2	Peter Müller	Switzerland	105	(4)	(11)	(11)	(8)	15	20	20	-	25	25
3	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	80	15	15	10	15	25	(5)	-	(6)	(6)	-
	Karl Alpiger	Switzerland	80	11	(1)	(2)	(1)	(8)	12	25	12	20	(5)
5	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	79	9	25	25	-	-	-	8	-	-	12
6	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	73	(6)	20	12	20	(3)	(6)	10	-	11	(4)
7	Todd Brooker	Canada	60	-	-	15	(2)	7	8	-	25	5	-
8	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	59	-	(4)	8	-	10	-	11	10	(2)	20
9	Anton Steiner	Austria	57	10	-	-	12	(5)	15	12	-	(3)	8
10	Sepp Wildgruber	West Germany	53	2	-	-	5	11	-	-	20	15	-

Men's Giant Slalom and Super G results

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In Men's Giant Slalom and Super G World Cup 1984/85 the best 5 results count. Ten racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Steven Lee and Daniel Mahrer shared the win in a strange race at Furano due to weather changes.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	2SG	3	5	8SG	12	18	24SG	27	30SG	32	34SG
1	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	120	20	-	25	25	(20)	-	25	(15)	-	25	(9)
2	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	102	25	12	(11)	20	-	-	-	20	-	(11)	25
3	Thomas Bürgler	Switzerland	90	15	(7)	10	(8)	25	-	(6)	25	-	-	15
4	Robert Erlacher	Italy	73	(7)	25	8	(6)	-	-	-	10	-	10	20
5	Martin Hangl	Switzerland	69	-	20	9	15	15	10	-	-	-	-	-
6	Hans Enn	Austria	67	9	-	12	12	-	25	-	(3)	-	9	-
7	Richard Pramotton	Italy	57	9	15	-	(3)	10	15	-	8	-	(5)	(2)
8	Max Julen	Switzerland	56	4	10	15	-	-	12	-	(2)	-	15	-
9	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	52	12	4	20	4	-	-	-	-	-	(3)	12
10	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	49	-	-	3	-	7	7	-	12	-	20	-
	Hubert Strolz	Austria	49	-	-	6	-	6	20	-	-	-	6	11
12	Jure Franko	Yugoslavia	46	11	(6)	-	7	9	9	(3)	(7)	-	-	10
13	Joël Gaspoz	Switzerland	37	2	11	-	-	11	5	-	-	-	8	-
14	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	31	1	-	-	10	-	-	20	-	-	-	-
	Peter Roth	West Germany	31	10	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	7	-	4
16	Alex Giorgi	Italy	28	-	5	4	-	2	-	-	5	-	12	-
	Rok Petrović	Yugoslavia	28	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	11	-	7	7
18	Oswald Tötsch	Italy	27	6	8	2	-	-	3	8	-	-	-	(1)
19	Michael Eder	West Germany	26	4	1	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	4	6
20	Steven Lee	Australia	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-
	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-

Men's Slalom results

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In Men's Slalom World Cup 1984/85 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Marc Girardelli won seven races (five in a row) and won the cup with maximum points.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	4	7	10	11	16	21	28	35	36
1	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	125	25	-	-	25	-	25	25	25	(25)	(25)
2	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	80	-	-	-	-	15	-	15	15	15	20
3	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	78	-	-	12	15	11	(8)	20	20	-	-
4	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	75	-	11	20	9	25	10	-	-	-	-
5	Paolo De Chiesa	Italy	70	15	20	-	12	12	11	-	-	-	-
6	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	69	-	7	25	11	-	15	11	-	-	-
7	Jonas Nilsson	Sweden	67	20	-	10	-	20	2	-	15	-	-
8	Oswald Tötsch	Italy	57	-	12	5	10	-	20	-	-	-	10
9	Ivano Edalini	Italy	53	9	15	(4)	-	-	6	-	11	12	-
10	Klaus Heidegger	Austria	51	12	-	9	-	-	(3)	8	10	-	12
11	Petar Popangelov	Bulgaria	46	-	6	15	-	-	-	6	(2)	10	9
12	Robert Zoller	Austria	44	-	9	8	-	-	-	12	-	-	15
	Alex Giorgi	Italy	44	-	-	-	(1)	9	12	10	-	5	8
14	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	38	2	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11

Men's combined results

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In Men's Combined World Cup 1984/85 all 5 results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	9	14	17	22	25
1	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	76	25	15	25	-	11
2	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	55	-	20	20	-	15
3	Peter Müller	Switzerland	52	-	11	11	5	25
4	Peter Lüscher	Switzerland	39	-	4	-	15	20
5	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	32	-	12	-	11	9
6	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	31	-	10	12	9	-
7	Gerhard Rambaud	France	27	-	-	15	12	-
8	Peter Roth	West Germany	26	-	-	-	20	6
9	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	25	-	25	-	-	-
	Thomas Bürgler	Switzerland	25	12	9	-	-	4
	Michel Vion	France	25	-	-	-	25	-

Men's Team results

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant Super G	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Switzerland	1489	636	485	98	270	16	13
2	Austria	871	406	214	153	98	23	5
3	Italy	672	113	255	274	30	15	1
4	Luxembourg	356	17	164	175	0	1	11
	West Germany	356	82	146	67	61	12	0
6	Liechtenstein	263	1	31	155	76	2	3
7	Yugoslavia	243	0	121	108	14	6	1
	Sweden	243	0	55	178	10	6	0
9	France	162	11	13	73	65	8	1
10	Canada	82	67	15	0	0	4	1
11	United States	67	29	6	32	0	9	0
12	Bulgaria	59	0	0	48	11	1	0
13	Australia	41	16	25	0	0	1	1
14	Japan	34	0	0	25	9	4	0
15	Soviet Union	15	7	0	0	8	2	0
16	Norway	13	0	0	0	13	2	0
17	Czechoslovakia	5	0	0	0	5	2	0

Women

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Slalom	Courmayeur	Italy	December 1, 1984
2	Downhill	Puy St. Vincent	France	December 6, 1984
3	Super G	Davos	Switzerland	December 8, 1984
4	Slalom	Davos	Switzerland	December 9, 1984
5	Combined	Race 3 and 4
6	Slalom	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 14, 1984
7	Giant	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 15, 1984
8	Giant	Santa Caterina	Italy	December 17, 1984
9	Downhill	Santa Caterina	Italy	December 21, 1984
10	Giant	Maribor	Yugoslavia	January 4, 1985
11	Slalom	Maribor	Yugoslavia	January 5, 1985
12	Downhill	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	January 9, 1985
13	Combined	Race 8 and 12
14	Downhill	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	January 10, 1985
15	Slalom	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	January 11, 1985
16	Combined	Race 14 and 15
17	Super G	Pfronten	West Germany	January 13, 1985
18	Slalom	Pfronten	West Germany	January 14, 1985
19	Downhill	St. Gervais	France	January 20, 1985
20	Giant	St. Gervais	France	January 21, 1985
21	Slalom	Arosa	Switzerland	January 25, 1985
22	Giant	Arosa	Switzerland	January 26, 1985
23	Downhill	Vail, Colorado	United States	March 2, 1985
24	Giant	Vail, CO	United States	March 3, 1985
25	Downhill	Banff, AB	Canada	March 8, 1985
26	Combined	Race 21 and 25
27	Downhill	Banff, AB	Canada	March 9, 1985
28	Super G	Banff, AB	Canada	March 10, 1985
29	Giant	Lake Placid, New York	United States	March 13, 1985
30	Slalom	Waterville Valley, New Hampshire	United States	March 16, 1985
31	Giant	Waterville Valley, NH	United States	March 17, 1985
32	Slalom	Park City, Utah	United States	March 19, 1985
33	Slalom	Heavenly Valley, California	United States	March 22, 1985

Women's overall results

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In Women's Overall World Cup 1984/85 the best four downhills, best four giant slaloms/Super G, best four slaloms and best three combined count. 31 racers had a point deduction.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant Super G	Slalom	Combined
1	Michela Figini	Switzerland	259	95	95	9	60
2	Brigitte Oertli	Switzerland	218	69	36	51	62
3	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	197	70	75	2	50
4	Marina Kiehl	West Germany	168	46	95	0	27
	Erika Hess	Switzerland	168	0	41	85	42
6	Olga Charvátová	Czechoslovakia	167	28	42	53	44
7	Elisabeth Kirchler	Austria	156	61	55	7	33
8	Tamara McKinney	United States	139	0	48	82	9
9	Vreni Schneider	Switzerland	112	0	85	18	9
10	Blanca Fernández Ochoa	Spain	108	0	58	32	18
11	Zoe Haas	Switzerland	107	42	52	3	10
12	Maria Epple	West Germany	106	0	43	63	0
	Perrine Pelen	France	106	0	29	77	0
14	Christelle Guignard	France	97	0	24	65	8
15	Traudl Hächer	West Germany	89	0	63	11	15
16	Eva Twardokens	United States	83	0	49	28	6
17	Laurie Graham	Canada	73	63	10	0	0
18	Michaela Gerg	West Germany	70	18	37	0	15
19	Maria Rosa Quario	Italy	65	0	0	65	0
20	Debbie Armstrong	United States	62	16	38	0	8

Women's Downhill results

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In Women's Downhill World Cup 1984/85 the best five results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	2	9	12	14	19	23	25	27
1	Michela Figini	Switzerland	115	(5)	(12)	25	25	25	-	20	20
2	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	81	(8)	-	11	15	(11)	15	25	15
3	Brigitte Oertli	Switzerland	76	-	-	20	20	-	20	7	9
4	Laurie Graham	Canada	73	-	(6)	10	11	-	12	15	25
5	Elisabeth Kirchler	Austria	71	12	25	12	12	-	(9)	10	-
6	Katrin Gutensohn	Austria	63	4	15	(2)	8	-	25	11	-
7	Marina Kiehl	West Germany	48	20	10	9	-	-	-	2	7
8	Ariane Ehrat	Switzerland	45	11	5	15	6	-	-	8	(4)
9	Zoe Haas	Switzerland	42	25	5	1	-	-	-	-	11
10	Catherine Quittet	France	33	-	8	-	-	20	-	5	-

Women's Giant Slalom and Super G results

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In Women's Giant Slalom and Super G World Cup 1983/84 the best 5 results count. 11 racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	3SG	7	8	10	17SG	20	22SG	24	28SG	29	31
1	Marina Kiehl	West Germany	110	15	25	(11)	-	20	-	25	(4)	25	(15)	(8)
	Michela Figini	Switzerland	110	-	(8)	(5)	25	25	25	15	(5)	20	-	-
3	Vreni Schneider	Switzerland	88	-	3	25	20	(1)	-	-	15	-	-	25
4	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	87	20	20	(1)	12	15	(3)	(9)	20	(7)	(5)	(12)
5	Traudl Hächer	West Germany	71	25	(5)	-	-	(4)	8	-	11	-	12	15
6	Elisabeth Kirchler	Austria	65	11	12	-	-	12	20	-	10	-	-	-
7	Blanca Fernández Ochoa	Spain	63	-	-	-	15	10	5	8	25	(4)	(3)	-
8	Zoe Haas	Switzerland	62	-	15	10	10	-	-	(1)	15	12	-	-
9	Diann Roffe	United States	57	-	7	4	-	-	1	-	-	-	25	20
10	Eva Twardokens	United States	56	-	-	7	(6)	7	-	20	-	11	(1)	11

Women's Slalom results

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In Women's Slalom World Cup 1984/85 the best 5 results count. Nine racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Erika Hess won her fourth Slalom World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	4	6	11	15	18	21	30	32	33
1	Erika Hess	Switzerland	100	(11)	20	-	(12)	15	-	15	(5)	25	25
2	Tamara McKinney	United States	93	12	-	-	25	-	-	20	25	-	11
3	Perrine Pelen	France	89	25	(5)	12	(11)	-	-	12	(11)	20	20
4	Maria Rosa Quario	Italy	75	10	-	-	-	20	-	10	20	15	-
5	Maria Epple	West Germany	67	20	4	9	-	-	-	25	-	9	-
	Brigitte Gadient	Switzerland	67	(5)	(1)	20	15	12	-	-	8	-	12
7	Christelle Guignard	France	65	-	25	15	-	25	-	-	-	-	-
8	Paoletta Magoni	Italy	64	15	-	-	9	(5)	25	6	(4)	-	9
9	Olga Charvátová	Czechoslovakia	60	-	10	11	20	7	12	(5)	(2)	-	-
10	Brigitte Oertli	Switzerland	58	-	11	(6)	-	(6)	20	7	12	-	8

Women's combined results

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In Women's Combined World Cup 1984/85 all 4 results count. All four events were won by athletes from Switzerland.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	5	13	16	26
1	Brigitte Oertli	Switzerland	74	25	12	25	12
2	Michela Figini	Switzerland	60	-	25	10	25
3	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	50	-	15	20	15
4	Olga Charvátová	Czechoslovakia	47	9	3	15	20
5	Erika Hess	Switzerland	44	20	2	11	11
6	Elisabeth Kirchler	Austria	33	10	11	12	-
7	Marina Kiehl	West Germany	27	7	20	-	-
8	Blanca Fernández Ochoa	Spain	18	-	-	8	10
9	Traudl Hächer	West Germany	15	15	-	-	-
	Michaela Gerg	West Germany	15	11	4	-	-

Women's Team results

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant Super G	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Switzerland	1529	401	518	350	260	14	16
2	West Germany	655	104	383	84	84	11	5
3	Austria	512	263	81	116	52	17	2
4	United States	448	51	242	132	23	11	3
5	France	431	95	118	204	14	10	3
6	Italy	220	11	8	193	8	7	1
7	Czechoslovakia	206	38	44	77	47	4	0
8	Canada	183	145	12	0	26	7	1
9	Spain	121	0	70	33	18	1	1
10	Poland	94	0	0	94	0	2	1
11	Yugoslavia	78	0	41	37	0	3	0
12	Sweden	50	0	8	42	0	4	0
13	Liechtenstein	18	0	0	18	0	1	0
14	Netherlands	5	0	0	0	5	1	0

Nationscup

Place	Country	Total Points	Men	Women
1	Switzerland	3018	1489	1529
2	Austria	1383	871	512
3	West Germany	1011	356	655
4	Italy	892	672	220
5	France	593	162	431
6	United States	515	67	448
7	Luxembourg	356	356	0
8	Yugoslavia	321	243	78
9	Sweden	293	243	50
10	Liechtenstein	281	263	18
11	Canada	265	82	183
12	Czechoslovakia	211	5	206
13	Spain	121	0	121
14	Poland	94	0	94
15	Bulgaria	59	59	0
16	Australia	41	41	0
17	Japan	34	34	0
18	Soviet Union	15	15	0
19	Norway	13	13	0
20	Netherlands	5	0	5

External links

• FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1985