FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017
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| Host city | St. Moritz |
|---|---|
| Country | Switzerland |
| Nations | 76 |
| Athletes | 589 |
| Events | 11 |
| Opening | 6 February 2017 |
| Closing | 19 February 2017 |
| Opened by | Doris Leuthard |
| Alpine skiing at the World Ski Championships 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Combined | men | women |
| Downhill | men | women |
| Giant slalom | men | women |
| Slalom | men | women |
| Super-G | men | women |
| Team | mixed | |
Piz Nair
Location in the Alps of Europe
Piz Nair
Location in Switzerland
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 were the 44th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships and were held from 6 to 19 February 2017 at Piz Nair in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The host city was selected at the FIS Congress in South Korea, on 31 May 2012. The other finalists were Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and Åre, Sweden.[1]
It was the fifth Alpine World Ski Championships at St. Moritz, after 1934, 1948, 1974, and 2003.
Schedule and course information
[edit]All competitions of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 took place on the St. Moritz home mountain Corviglia.[2]
Schedule
[edit]| Time | UTC+1[3] |
| Events | Event days | ||||||||||||||||
| Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | ||||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | ||||
| February | |||||||||||||||||
| Opening and closing ceremonies | • | • | |||||||||||||||
| Men | |||||||||||||||||
| Downhill | 12:00 | 13:30 | |||||||||||||||
| Slalom | Run 1 | 09:45 | |||||||||||||||
| Run 2 | 13:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Giant slalom |
Run 1 | 09:45 | |||||||||||||||
| Run 2 | 13:30 | ||||||||||||||||
| Alpine combined |
Downhill |
10:00 | |||||||||||||||
| Slalom |
13:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Super-G | 12:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Women | |||||||||||||||||
| Downhill | 11:15 | ||||||||||||||||
| Slalom | Run 1 | 09:45 | |||||||||||||||
| Run 2 | 13:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Giant slalom |
Run 1 | 09:45 | |||||||||||||||
| Run 2 | 13:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Alpine combined |
Downhill |
10:00 | |||||||||||||||
| Slalom |
13:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Super-G | 12:00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mixed | Team event | 12:00 | |||||||||||||||
- The men's downhill, originally scheduled for 11 February, was postponed one day due to adverse weather conditions.
Course information
[edit]| Date | Race | Start elevation |
Finish elevation |
Vertical drop |
Course length |
Average gradient |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 12 Feb | Downhill – men | 2,745 m (9,006 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 705 m (2,313 ft) | 2.920 km (1.814 mi) | 24.1% |
| Sun 12 Feb | Downhill – women | 2,745 m (9,006 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 705 m (2,313 ft) | 2.633 km (1.636 mi) | 26.8% |
| Mon 13 Feb | Downhill – (AC) – men | 2,745 m (9,006 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 705 m (2,313 ft) | 2.920 km (1.814 mi) | 24.1% |
| Fri 10 Feb | Downhill – (AC) – women | 2,590 m (8,497 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 550 m (1,804 ft) | 2.059 km (1.279 mi) | 26.7% |
| Wed 8 Feb | Super-G – men | 2,640 m (8,661 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 600 m (1,969 ft) | 1.920 km (1.193 mi) | 31.3% |
| Tue 7 Feb | Super-G – women | 2,590 m (8,497 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 550 m (1,804 ft) | 2.059 km (1.279 mi) | 26.7% |
| Fri 17 Feb | Giant slalom – men | 2,385 m (7,825 ft) | 2,030 m (6,660 ft) | 355 m (1,165 ft) | ||
| Thu 16 Feb | Giant slalom – women | 2,385 m (7,825 ft) | 2,030 m (6,660 ft) | 355 m (1,165 ft) | ||
| Sun 19 Feb | Slalom – men | 2,220 m (7,283 ft) | 2,030 m (6,660 ft) | 190 m (623 ft) | ||
| Sat 18 Feb | Slalom – women | 2,220 m (7,283 ft) | 2,030 m (6,660 ft) | 190 m (623 ft) | ||
| Mon 13 Feb | Slalom – (AC) – men | 2,220 m (7,283 ft) | 2,040 m (6,693 ft) | 180 m (591 ft) | ||
| Fri 10 Feb | Slalom – (AC) – women | 2,210 m (7,251 ft) | 2,030 m (6,660 ft) | 180 m (591 ft) | ||
Medal summary
[edit]Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Austria (AUT) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 |  Switzerland (SUI)* | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 |  France (FRA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 6 |  Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 |  Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 |  Liechtenstein (LIE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 |  Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 |  Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (12 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 | |
- Host country highlighted.
Men's events
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downhill[5] |
Beat Feuz Switzerland |
1:38.91 | Erik Guay Canada |
1:39.03 | Max Franz Austria |
1:39.28 |
| Super-G[6] |
Erik Guay Canada |
1:25.38 | Kjetil Jansrud Norway |
1:25.83 | Manuel Osborne-Paradis Canada |
1:25.89 |
| Giant slalom[7] |
Marcel Hirscher Austria |
2:13.31 | Roland Leitinger Austria |
2:13.56 | Leif Kristian Haugen Norway |
2:14.02 |
| Slalom[8] |
Marcel Hirscher Austria |
1:34.75 | Manuel Feller Austria |
1:35.43 | Felix Neureuther Germany |
1:35.68 |
| Alpine combined[9] |
Luca Aerni Switzerland |
2:26.33 | Marcel Hirscher Austria |
2:26.34 | Mauro Caviezel Switzerland |
2:26.39 |
Women's events
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downhill[10] |
Ilka Štuhec Slovenia |
1:32.85 | Stephanie Venier Austria |
1:33.25 | Lindsey Vonn United States |
1:33.30 |
| Super-G[11] |
Nicole Schmidhofer Austria |
1:21.34 | Tina Weirather Liechtenstein |
1:21.67 | Lara Gut Switzerland |
1:21.70 |
| Giant slalom[12] |
Tessa Worley France |
2:05.55 | Mikaela Shiffrin United States |
2:05.89 | Sofia Goggia Italy |
2:06.29 |
| Slalom[13] |
Mikaela Shiffrin United States |
1:37.27 | Wendy Holdener Switzerland |
1:38.91 | Frida Hansdotter Sweden |
1:39.02 |
| Alpine combined[14] |
Wendy Holdener Switzerland |
1:58.88 | Michelle Gisin Switzerland |
1:58.93 | Michaela Kirchgasser Austria |
1:59.26 |
Mixed
[edit]Participating countries
[edit]A total of 77 countries are scheduled to compete.[16]
Afghanistan
Albania
Andorra
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Haiti
Hungary
Iceland
India
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Montenegro
Monaco
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tonga
Ukraine
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
References
[edit]- ^ Ski WC 2017: St. Moritz awarded Ski World Championships 2017.
- ^ Races technical details
- ^ "Schedule". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ^ "Alpine skiing World Championships 2017 calendar – Saint Moritz". Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ Men's downhill results
- ^ Men's super-G results
- ^ Men's giant slalom results
- ^ Men's slalom results
- ^ Men's alpine combined results
- ^ Women's downhill results
- ^ Women's super-G results
- ^ Women's giant slalom results
- ^ Women's slalom results
- ^ Women's alpine combined results
- ^ Nations team event results
- ^ "FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 St. Moritz Participating Nations" (PDF). stmoritz2017.ch. 10 February 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.