2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup

Alpine Ski World Cup 2013
Discipline	Men	Ladies
	Winner
Overall	Marcel Hirscher	Tina Maze
Downhill	Aksel Lund Svindal	Lindsey Vonn
Super-G	Aksel Lund Svindal	Tina Maze
Giant slalom	Ted Ligety	Tina Maze
Slalom	Marcel Hirscher	Mikaela Shiffrin
Nations Cup	Austria
	Competition
Places	19	20
Individual	34	35
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2013 World Cup Champions

Marcel Hirscher won the overall title for the second successive year, the first man to do so since Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003.

Tina Maze became the first Slovenian to win an overall World Cup title, and the first skier to score more than 2,000 points in a season.

The 47th FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season began on 27 October 2012, in Sölden, Austria, and concluded on 17 March 2013, at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.^[1][2] The overall titles were won by Marcel Hirscher of Austria and Tina Maze of Slovenia.

A break in the schedule was for the biennial World Championships, held 4–17 February in Schladming, Austria. Changes for the 2013 season included the awarding of World Cup points for the slalom crystal globe for the limited field city events (parallel slalom),^[3] not just in the overall standings. Also, a crystal globe trophy was no longer awarded for the combined event, as many organizers considered the event difficult to market,^[4] but its results still counted in the overall rankings.^[5]

Maze became the first Slovenian to win an overall World Cup title; she clinched it on 24 February after her eighth victory of the season, a super-combined race at Méribel, France.^[6] Her victory in a downhill race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany on 2 March gave her wins in all five disciplines for the season, and she became the first racer in World Cup history to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.^[7] The previous record of 2,000 points was held by Hermann Maier, set during the 2000 season.^[8]

Maze broke various statistical records in this season, including the highest number of podiums in a season (24, record previously held by Maier (22) and by Hanni Wenzel and Pernilla Wiberg for ladies (18)), highest number of top 5 finishes (31, previously Maier and Wiberg (24)), highest number of points after first 10 races (677, previously Katja Seizinger, 643), largest percent of possible points won (69%, previously 61% by Wiberg), and the highest margin over the runner-up (1313, compared to 743 for Maier and 578 for Lindsey Vonn).^[9] Maze finished on podium in all giant slalom events, previously achieved only by Vreni Schneider in 1989. She is also the only woman to remain at the top of the overall standings throughout the season - a feat previously achieved only by Bode Miller in 2005.^[9] In addition to the overall title, Maze won the super-G and giant slalom titles, finished at the top of the combined list by winning both races in the season, and finished second in the downhill and slalom. Those titles went respectively to two Americans, Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin.^[5] Vonn's season ended with a knee injury on 5 February at the World Championships, but she held on to win the downhill title by a single point after the final race was cancelled. Three days after turning 18, Shiffrin won the final slalom race at Lenzerheide on 16 March to overtake Maze and win that discipline's season title by 33 points.

The men's overall title wasn't decided until the World Cup finals at Lenzerheide. A runner-up finish in the giant slalom on 16 March gave Hirscher his second consecutive overall title, the first male to achieve this feat since Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003.^[10] Hirscher also won the slalom title, while the downhill and super-G titles went to Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, the sixth and seventh discipline titles for the former two-time overall champion. The giant slalom title went to American Ted Ligety, who won six of the eight GS races for his fourth season title in that discipline.^[11]

Race calendar

Key

DH	Downhill
SG	Super-G
GS	Giant slalom
SL	Slalom
P	Parallel
SC	Super combined
TE	Nations team event

Men

^[12]

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
28 October 2012	Sölden, Austria	GS	Ted Ligety	Manfred Mölgg	Marcel Hirscher
11 November 2012	Levi, Finland	SL	André Myhrer	Marcel Hirscher	Jens Byggmark
24 November 2012	Lake Louise, Canada	DH	Aksel Lund Svindal	Max Franz	Marco Sullivan Klaus Kröll
25 November 2012		SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Adrien Théaux	Joachim Puchner
30 November 2012	Beaver Creek, USA	DH	Christof Innerhofer	Aksel Lund Svindal	Kjetil Jansrud
1 December 2012		SG	Matteo Marsaglia	Aksel Lund Svindal	Hannes Reichelt
2 December 2012		GS	Ted Ligety	Marcel Hirscher	Davide Simoncelli
8 December 2012	Val-d'Isère, France	SL	Alexis Pinturault	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher
9 December 2012		GS	Marcel Hirscher	Stefan Luitz	Ted Ligety
14 December 2012	Val Gardena, Italy	SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Matteo Marsaglia	Werner Heel
15 December 2012		DH	Steven Nyman	Rok Perko	Erik Guay
16 December 2012	Alta Badia, Italy	GS	Ted Ligety	Marcel Hirscher	Thomas Fanara
18 December 2012	Madonna di Campiglio, Italy	SL	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther	Naoki Yuasa
29 December 2012	Bormio, Italy	DH	Hannes Reichelt Dominik Paris		Aksel Lund Svindal
1 January 2013	Munich, Germany	P	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher	Alexis Pinturault
6 January 2013	Zagreb, Croatia	SL	Marcel Hirscher	André Myhrer	Mario Matt
12 January 2013	Adelboden, Switzerland	GS	Ted Ligety	Fritz Dopfer	Felix Neureuther
13 January 2013		SL	Marcel Hirscher	Mario Matt	Manfred Mölgg
18 January 2013	Wengen, Switzerland	SC	Alexis Pinturault	Ivica Kostelić	Carlo Janka
19 January 2013		DH	Christof Innerhofer	Klaus Kröll	Hannes Reichelt
20 January 2013		SL	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher	Ivica Kostelić
25 January 2013	Kitzbühel, Austria	SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Matthias Mayer	Christof Innerhofer
26 January 2013		DH	Dominik Paris	Erik Guay	Hannes Reichelt
27 January 2013		SL	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther	Ivica Kostelić
		K	Ivica Kostelić	Alexis Pinturault	Thomas Mermillod-Blondin
29 January 2013	Moscow, Russia	P	Marcel Hirscher	André Myhrer	Ivica Kostelić
5–17 February 2013	Schladming, Austria	2013 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
23 February 2013	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	DH	Christof Innerhofer	Georg Streitberger	Klaus Kröll
24 February 2013		GS	Alexis Pinturault	Marcel Hirscher	Ted Ligety
2 March 2013	Kvitfjell, Norway	DH	Adrien Théaux	Aksel Lund Svindal	Klaus Kröll
3 March 2013		SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Georg Streitberger	Werner Heel
9 March 2013	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	GS	Ted Ligety	Marcel Hirscher	Alexis Pinturault
10 March 2013		SL	Ivica Kostelić	Marcel Hirscher	Mario Matt
13 March 2013	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	DH	cancelled due to fog; not rescheduled
14 March 2013		SG	cancelled due to strong winds; not rescheduled
16 March 2013		GS	Ted Ligety	Marcel Hirscher	Alexis Pinturault
17 March 2013		SL	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher	Ivica Kostelić

Ladies

^[13]

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
27 October 2012	Sölden, Austria	GS	Tina Maze	Kathrin Zettel	Stefanie Köhle
10 November 2012	Levi, Finland	SL	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Tanja Poutiainen	Mikaela Shiffrin
24 November 2012	Aspen, USA	GS	Tina Maze	Kathrin Zettel	Viktoria Rebensburg
25 November 2012		SL	Kathrin Zettel	Marlies Schild	Tina Maze
30 November 2012	Lake Louise, Canada	DH	Lindsey Vonn	Stacey Cook	Maria Höfl-Riesch Tina Weirather
1 December 2012		DH	Lindsey Vonn	Stacey Cook	Marianne Kaufmann-Abderhalden
2 December 2012		SG	Lindsey Vonn	Julia Mancuso	Anna Fenninger
7 December 2012	St. Moritz, Switzerland	SC	Tina Maze	Nicole Hosp	Kathrin Zettel
8 December 2012		SG	Lindsey Vonn	Tina Maze	Julia Mancuso
9 December 2012		GS	Tina Maze	Viktoria Rebensburg	Tessa Worley
14 December 2012	Val-d'Isère, France	DH	Lara Gut	Leanne Smith	Nadja Kamer
15 December 2012		SG	cancelled, heavy snow; rescheduled to 1 March 2013 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen[14]
16 December 2012	Courchevel, France	GS	Tina Maze	Kathrin Zettel	Tessa Worley
19 December 2012	Åre, Sweden	GS	Viktoria Rebensburg	Anna Fenninger	Tina Maze
20 December 2012		SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Frida Hansdotter	Tina Maze
28 December 2012	Semmering, Austria	GS	Anna Fenninger	Tina Maze	Tessa Worley
29 December 2012		SL	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Kathrin Zettel	Tina Maze
1 January 2013	Munich, Germany	P	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Tina Maze	Michaela Kirchgasser
4 January 2013	Zagreb, Croatia	SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Frida Hansdotter	Erin Mielzynski
12 January 2013	St. Anton, Austria	DH	Alice McKennis	Daniela Merighetti	Anna Fenninger
13 January 2013		SG	Tina Maze	Anna Fenninger	Fabienne Suter
15 January 2013	Flachau, Austria	SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Frida Hansdotter	Tanja Poutiainen
19 January 2013	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	DH	Lindsey Vonn	Tina Maze	Leanne Smith
20 January 2013		SG	Viktoria Rebensburg	Nicole Schmidhofer	Tina Maze
26 January 2013	Maribor, Slovenia	GS	Lindsey Vonn	Tina Maze	Anna Fenninger
27 January 2013		SL	Tina Maze	Frida Hansdotter	Kathrin Zettel
29 January 2013	Moscow, Russia	P	Lena Dürr	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Mikaela Shiffrin
5–17 February 2013	Schladming, Austria	2013 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
23 February 2013	Méribel, France	DH	Carolina Ruiz Castillo	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Marie Marchand-Arvier
24 February 2013		SC	Tina Maze	Nicole Hosp	Michaela Kirchgasser
1 March 2013[nb 1]	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	SG	Tina Weirather	Tina Maze Julia Mancuso
2 March 2013		DH	Tina Maze	Laurenne Ross	Maria Höfl-Riesch
3 March 2013		SG	Anna Fenninger	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Julia Mancuso
9 March 2013	Ofterschwang, Germany	GS	Anna Fenninger	Tina Maze	Viktoria Rebensburg
10 March 2013		SL	Tina Maze	Wendy Holdener	Mikaela Shiffrin
13 March 2013	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	DH	cancelled due to fog; not rescheduled
14 March 2013		SG	cancelled due to strong winds; not rescheduled
16 March 2013		SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Bernadette Schild	Tina Maze
17 March 2013		GS	Tina Maze	Tessa Worley	Lara Gut

Team event

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
15 March 2013	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	TE	Germany Lena Dürr Veronique Hronek Viktoria Rebensburg Fritz Dopfer Felix Neureuther	Sweden Therese Borssén Frida Hansdotter Maria Pietilä Holmner Jens Byggmark Mattias Hargin André Myhrer	Italy Elena Curtoni Denise Karbon Daniela Merighetti Cristian Deville Stefano Gross Davide Simoncelli

Standings: Men

Names in bold have clinched title.

Overall Pos. Points 1. Marcel Hirscher 1535 2. Aksel Lund Svindal 1226 3. Ted Ligety 1022 4. Felix Neureuther 948 5. Ivica Kostelić 900 Final standings after 34 races.

Downhill Pos. Points 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 439 2. Klaus Kröll 381 3. Dominik Paris 378 4. Christof Innerhofer 370 5. Hannes Reichelt 290 Final standings after 8 races.

Super-G Pos. Points 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 480 2. Matteo Marsaglia 249 3. Matthias Mayer 228 4. Werner Heel 224 5. Adrien Théaux 191 Final standings after 5 races.

Giant slalom Pos. Points 1. Ted Ligety 720 2. Marcel Hirscher 575 3. Alexis Pinturault 326 4. Manfred Mölgg 301 5. Thomas Fanara 236 Final standings after 8 races.

Slalom Pos. Points 1. Marcel Hirscher 960 2. Felix Neureuther 716 3. Ivica Kostelić 535 4. André Myhrer 532 5. Manfred Mölgg 335 Final standings after 11 races.

Combined Pos. Points 1. Ivica Kostelić (no trophy)[nb 2] 180 1. Alexis Pinturault (no trophy) 180 3. Thomas Mermillod-Blondin 96 4.    Carlo Janka 86 5. Aksel Lund Svindal 63 Final standings after 2 races.

Standings: Ladies

Names in bold have clinched title.

Overall Pos. Points 1. Tina Maze 2414 2. Maria Höfl-Riesch 1101 3. Anna Fenninger 1029 4. Julia Mancuso 867 5. Mikaela Shiffrin 822 Final standings after 35 races.

Downhill Pos. Points 1. Lindsey Vonn 340 2. Tina Maze 339 3. Maria Höfl-Riesch 272 4. Stacey Cook 244 5.    Lara Gut 228 Final standings after 7 races.

Super-G Pos. Points 1. Tina Maze 420 2. Julia Mancuso 365 3. Anna Fenninger 304 4. Lindsey Vonn 286 5. Maria Höfl-Riesch 251 Final standings after 6 races.

Giant slalom Pos. Points 1. Tina Maze 800 2. Anna Fenninger 480 3. Viktoria Rebensburg 411 4. Tessa Worley 383 5. Kathrin Zettel 382 Final standings after 9 races.

Slalom Pos. Points 1. Mikaela Shiffrin 688 2. Tina Maze 655 3. Veronika Velez-Zuzulová 500 4. Frida Hansdotter 435 5. Tanja Poutiainen 354 Final standings after 11 races.

Combined Pos. Points 1. Tina Maze (no trophy)[nb 2] 200 2. Nicole Hosp 160 3. Michaela Kirchgasser 120 4.    Lara Gut 77 4. Marie-Michèle Gagnon 77 Final standings after 2 races.

Standings: Nations Cup

Nations in bold have clinched title.

Overall Pos. Points 1.  Austria 11103 2.  Italy 5815 3.  United States 5185 4.  France 5076 5.  Germany 4818 Final standings after 69 races.

Men Pos. Points 1.  Austria 6089 2.  Italy 3983 3.  France 3219 4.  Norway 2013 5.  Germany 1923 Final standings after 34 races.

Ladies Pos. Points 1.  Austria 5014 2.  United States 3537 3.  Germany 2895 4.  Slovenia 2714 5.   Switzerland  2424 Final standings after 35 races.

Footnotes

1. Rescheduled from 15 December 2012 in Val-d'Isère.^[14]
2. Crystal globes were not officially awarded in the discipline, in 2013.

References

1. "Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13: Men" (PDF). FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Fédération Internationale de Ski. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
2. "Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13: Ladies" (PDF). FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Fédération Internationale de Ski. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
3. "World Cup City Events Get Slalom Ranking Points". Retrieved 2012-10-26.
4. "Skiing plans to revive Alpine super-combined event". Retrieved 2012-10-05.
5. FIS-Ski - Cup Standings
6. "Maze wins overall World Cup". Yahoo! Sports (Yahoo!). Reuters. 24 February 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
7. "Maze wins Garmisch downhill and breaks 2,000 points". Yahoo! Eurosport (TF1 Group). Reuters. 2 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
8. New York Daily News, "Tina Maze is the Slovenian beauty who'll be Lindsey Vonn's biggest adversary at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014", Nathaniel Vinton, 16 March 2013.
9. Vsi rekordi in obrazi Tine Maze :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija
10. FIS-Ski - FIS World Cup
11. FIS-Ski - Cup Standings
12. Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - FIS WORLD CUP CALENDAR 2012/13
13. Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - FIS WORLD CUP CALENDAR 2012/13
14. "Audi FIS Ski World Cup 2012/13: Official Communications". FIS-Ski.com (International Ski Federation). 24 January 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2013.

External links

• FIS-ski.com: Alpine skiing, FIS World Cup
• FIS Alpine.com