2019 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill

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2019 Women's downhill World Cup
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The women's downhill in the 2019 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eight events, including the season finals in Soldeu, Andorra. Defending discipline champion Sofia Goggia of Italy fractured her ankle prior to the start of the season and missed five of the eight events, ending her chances to repeat.[1] In addition, 2018 runner-up Lindsey Vonn of the USA, who had closed the prior season by winning all of the final four downhills and needed only four more victories to equal Ingemar Stenmark's all-time World Cup victory record, began the season injured and announced her planned retirement at the end of the season,[2] but was hampered during her comeback by her cumulative injuries,[3] and finally retired immediately after the conclusion of the 2019 World Ski Championships.[4]

Among this wide=open field, Austrian skier Nicole Schmidhofer grabbed the lead in the discipline going into the next-to-last race of the season at Crans Montana in Switzerland, where a bizarre timing mishap occurred. In a race won by Goggia after her return, Schmidhofer was originally announced as placing third in the downhill, but before the podium, the placings were controversially changed and Schmidhofer was demoted to fourth behind Goggia and two Swiss skiers, Joana Hählen and Lara Gut-Behrami.[5] However, three days later, the official standings were again changed as, after a review of the adjustments made due to a timer misplacement, it turned out that four Swiss skiers (including both Hählen and Gut-Behrami) had been given incorrect adjustments, and Schmidhofer was moved up to second, giving her a 90-point lead with one race to go, virtually clinching the discipline championship for the season.[6] Schmidhofer then secured the title for 2019 at the season finals in Soldeu, Andorra when her nearest rival, fellow Austrian Ramona Siebenhofer, failed to win the race.[7]

The season was interrupted by the 2019 World Ski Championships, which were held from 4–17 February in Åre, Sweden. The women's downhill was held on 10 February.

Standings

# Skier
30 Nov 2018
Lake Louise

Canada
1 Dec 2018
Lake Louise

Canada
Italy
18 Jan 2019
Cortina d'Ampezzo

Italy
19 Jan 2019
Cortina d'Ampezzo

Italy
Germany
23 Feb 2019
Crans Montana

 Switzerland 
13 Mar 2019
Soldeu

Andorra 		Total
Austria Nicole Schmidhofer 100 100 26 22 80 36 80 24 468
2 Austria Stephanie Venier 50 29 36 60 20 100 45 32 372
3 Austria Ramona Siebenhofer 20 40 60 100 100 26 8 0 354
4 Slovenia Ilka Štuhec 40 18 100 80 60 45 DNF DNS 343
5 Germany Kira Weidle 60 24 32 32 50 60 20 29 307
6  Switzerland  Corinne Suter 22 32 14 50 0 50 60 60 288
7 Italy Sofia Goggia DNS 80 100 40 220
8 Italy Nicol Delago 12 45 80 DNF 24 DNF 22 36 219
9  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin 80 60 13 18 36 DNS 207
10 Italy Nadia Fanchini DNF 36 3 20 20 40 32 50 201
11 Austria Mirjam Puchner 0 4 40 12 0 20 13 100 189
12 Germany Viktoria Rebensburg 15 13 DNS 24 45 DNS 80 177
13 Austria Cornelia Hütter 26 80 DNS 29 40 DNF DNS 175
14 France Romane Miradoli 15 14 20 45 15 14 26 20 169
15 Liechtenstein Tina Weirather 45 DNF 24 0 14 15 15 26 139
16  Switzerland  Joana Hählen 32 22 8 7 9 10 50 DNF 138
17 Austria Tamara Tippler 0 3 15 36 20 DNF 14 45 133
18  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami 18 0 32 8 8 22 40 DNS 128
19  Switzerland  Jasmine Flury 11 11 50 12 12 DNF 29 0 125
20 Austria Ricarda Haaser 8 12 20 16 5 29 10 16 116
21 Italy Federica Brignone 6 15 DNS 7 22 DNF 36 18 104
22 Germany Michaela Wenig 0 2 45 14 6 8 0 22 97
23 Norway  Ragnhild Mowinckel 3 6 13 10 13 16 24 DNS 85
24 Czech Republic Ester Ledecká 10 26 2 14 32 0 DNS 0 84
25 United States Mikaela Shiffrin 29 50 DNS 79
References [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNF = Did Not Finish
  • DNS = Did Not Start
  • Updated at 18 March 2019, after all events.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ Zaccardi, Nick (20 October 2018). "Sofia Goggia, Olympic downhill champion, to miss chunk of World Cup season". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  2. ^ Hodgetts, Rob (21 November 2018). "Lindsey Vonn injures knee, delays season start". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. ^ Masters, James (24 January 2019). "Lindsey Vonn 'hopeful' of comeback after retirement talk". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  4. ^ Schad, Tom (1 February 2019). "U.S. skier and Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn announces retirement". USA Today. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  5. ^ Staff (23 February 2019). "Goggia wins controversial downhill in Switzerland". CNN. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  6. ^ AFP (26 February 2019). "Crans-Montana timing chaos - podium changed three days later". France 24. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  7. ^ Associated Press (13 March 2019). "Feuz, Schmidhofer secure downhill titles at World Cup Finals". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lake Louise Ladies' DH (CAN)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  9. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lake Louise Ladies' DH (CAN)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  10. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val Gardena/Gröden Ladies' DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  11. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Cortina d'Ampezzo Ladies' DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  12. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Cortina d'Ampezzo Ladies' DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  13. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Garmisch-Partenkirchen Ladies' DH (GER)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  14. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Crans-Montana Ladies' DH (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  15. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Grandvalira Soldeu – El Tarter Ladies' DH (AND)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  16. ^ "Official FIS 2019 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.