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2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

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2016 women's overall World Cup
  • Lara Gut of Switzerland, season champion
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The women's overall competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 40 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL) (which included one city event), and Alpine combined (AC) (which included one super-combined). A city event is a slalom conducted on a two-lane artificial ramp erected in a major city (for example, Stockholm this season, as well as Moscow, Munich, and Oslo); a super-combined (run at Val d'Isère in December 2015) consists of a downhill followed by a one-run slalom, as opposed to an Alpine combined (the other combined race currently contested), which consists of a Super-G followed by a one-run slalom.

At the start of the season, the three still-active prior overall women's champions -- two-time defending champion Anna Fenninger of Austria (2014–15), Tina Maze of Slovenia (2013), and Lindsey Vonn of the USA (2008–10, 2012) -- were all inactive. Fenninger had to miss the entire season due to a serious knee injury in October.[1] Maze, an all-discipline skier who had been runner-up behind Fenninger in 2015, took a full-year hiatus before deciding whether to continue or permanently retire.[2] And Vonn was still recovering from, first, her season-ending injury in early 2015, and then a dog bite, and she didn't return until December 2015.[3] Then, in early December, just a handful of events into the season, Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA, overall fourth last season and slalom discipline champion for the last three seasons, suffered an injury during practice at Åre,[4] which caused her to miss the two months at the heart of the season; she did not return until mid-February (and promptly dominated the competition, although it was too late to contend for the season crown).[5]

With all of the injuries, Vonn, who herself missed more time due to injuries in late December, nevertheless had opened a narrow lead in the overall standings. When the World Cup went to Andorra in late February, Vonn had already won the Downhill discipline for the season and was leading in the Overall, Super-G and Combined disciplines for the season. However, on February 27, during the Super-G in Soldeu, Vonn crashed again near the end of her run while leading. She still raced the next day in the Combined event, although failing to podium, but on Monday a complete medical evaluation in Barcelona revealed multiple significant (not hairline, as she had thought) fractures in her knee from the Super-G crash, which ended her season at once.[6]

After Vonn's injury, 24-year-old Lara Gut of Switzerland, Vonn's closest pursuer, grabbed the overall lead and ended up as the season champion by almost 300 points.[7]

Appropriately, the World Cup season finals were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the first time since the World Cup season finals began in 1993, although five of the previous eleven finals were held in Switzerland (all at Lenzerheide).

Standings

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# Skier DH
9 races 		SG
8 races 		GS
9 races 		SL
11 races 		AC
3 races 		Tot.
 Switzerland  Lara Gut 394 481 472 15 160 1,522
2 United States Lindsey Vonn 580 420 120 15 100 1,235
3 Germany Viktoria Rebensburg 264 293 590 0 0 1,147
4 Liechtenstein Tina Weirather 244 436 321 15 0 1,016
5 Sweden Frida Hansdotter 0 0 204 711 0 915
6  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 0 7 51 561 198 817
7 Austria Cornelia Hütter 387 400 0 0 24 811
8 Italy Federica Brignone 9 276 425 27 50 787
9 Norway  Nina Løseth 0 0 292 373 0 665
10 United States Mikaela Shiffrin 0 18 98 500 32 648
 Switzerland  Fabienne Suter 463 185 0 0 0 648
12 Austria Eva-Maria Brem 0 0 592 55 0 647
13 Slovakia Veronika Velez-Zuzulová 0 0 0 626 0 626
14 Italy Nadia Fanchini 300 171 147 0 0 618
15 Austria Michaela Kirchgasser 0 4 179 280 153 616
16 Canada Marie-Michèle Gagnon 0 8 174 271 145 598
17 Sweden Kajsa Kling 218 215 63 0 44 540
18 United States Laurenne Ross 224 250 0 0 52 526
19 Sweden Maria Pietilä-Holmner 0 0 204 292 0 496
20 Czech Republic Šárka Strachová 0 0 0 493 0 493
21 Italy Johanna Schnarf 160 216 0 0 90 466
22 Canada Larisa Yurkiw 407 58 0 0 0 465
23 Italy Elena Curtoni 188 153 82 0 32 455
24 Slovakia Petra Vlhová 0 0 18 389 0 407
25 Italy Francesca Marsaglia 102 145 88 0 65 400
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2016, after all events[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Associated Press (22 October 2015). "Fenniger Out for Season after Crash in Austria". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Tina Maze temporarily suspends her career". RTV. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Lindsey Vonn: Back on the slopes after suffering dogfight injury". CNN.com. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. ^ Staff (12 December 2015). "Skiing-Olympic champ Shiffrin heads home with knee injury". Reuters. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  5. ^ Staff (8 February 2016). "Mikaela Shiffrin announces mid-February return to the World Cup". Ski-Racing Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  6. ^ Hall, Gabbi (2 March 2016). "Lindsey Vonn ends season early after revised injury diagnosis". Ski-Racing Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  7. ^ Majendie, Matt (15 March 2016). "Lara Gut: Family affair pushes Swiss skier to new heights". Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Official FIS 2016 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
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