2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup

2014 World Cup Champions

Marcel Hirscher won the overall title for the third successive year, the first man to do so since Phil Mahre in 1983.

Anna Fenninger won the overall title for the first time.

The 48th FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season began on 26 October 2013, in Sölden, Austria, and concluded on 16 March 2014 at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.^[1] The defending overall champions from the 2013 season were Marcel Hirscher of Austria and Tina Maze of Slovenia. The overall titles were won by Hirscher and Anna Fenninger, also of Austria. The season was interrupted by the 2014 Winter Olympics that took place from 7 to 23 February in Sochi, Russia, with the alpine events at Rosa Khutor.

Summary

The men's title was won by Hirscher for the third time in a row, becoming the first man to achieve this since Phil Mahre in 1983.^[2] Hirscher secured the title after the second-to-last race of the season when he beat Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who did not compete in slalom.^[3] Svindal won both the downhill (second time in a row) and super-G titles (third time in a row). The giant slalom title went to Ted Ligety of the United States. Ligety and Hirscher shared the same number of points but Ligety had more victories (4, as opposed to 2 by Hirscher).^[4] This was Ligety's second consecutive giant slalom title and fifth overall. The slalom title went to Hirscher, who secured it in the last race of the season. The combined title was shared by Ligety and Alexis Pinturault of France, who each won a first and a second place in two combined races of the season.

Fenninger won the overall women's title, her first, and the first by an Austrian woman since Nicole Hosp in 2007. It was the first time since 2002 that both overall titles were won by Ausrians.^[5] Fenninger secured the title at the super-G finals in Lenzerheide after her closest competitor, Maria Höfl-Riesch of Germany, suffered an injury a day earlier in the downhill which ended her season.^[6] At the end of the season, Höfl-Riesch announced her retirement from the World Cup circuit.^[7] Höfl-Riesch won the downhill title, Lara Gut of Switzerland won the super-G title and also most races of the season (seven, followed by five of Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States, who also won the slalom title). The giant slalom title went to Fenninger who secured it in the last race. There was only one combined event in the 2014 season, which was won by Marie-Michèle Gagnon, who therefore also won the combined title. Maze of Slovenia, the 2013 overall champion, was less successful this year compared to her record-breaking 2013 season. She won one race and four more podiums and finished fourth in the final standings. However, she stated that her main goal in the season were the Sochi Olympics, where she won two gold medals, in downhill and in giant slalom.^[8] Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein was another strong performer, holding a second place before the Olympics, but suffered an injury in downhill training in Sochi and had to skip the rest of the season, finishing fifth overall.^[9] Returning from a knee injury at the 2013 World Championships, four-time overall champion Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. appeared in only four races, all speed events in December 2013.

Race calendar

Key

Men

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
27 October 2013	Sölden, Austria	GS	Ted Ligety	Alexis Pinturault	Marcel Hirscher	[10]
17 November 2013	Levi, Finland	SL	Marcel Hirscher	Mario Matt	Henrik Kristoffersen	[11]
30 November 2013	Lake Louise, Canada	DH	Dominik Paris	Klaus Kröll	Adrien Théaux	[12]
1 December 2013		SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Matthias Mayer	Georg Streitberger	[13]
6 December 2013	Beaver Creek, USA	DH	Aksel Lund Svindal	Hannes Reichelt	Peter Fill	[14]
7 December 2013		SG	Patrick Küng	Otmar Striedinger	Peter Fill Hannes Reichelt	[15]
8 December 2013		GS	Ted Ligety	Bode Miller	Marcel Hirscher	[16]
14 December 2013	Val-d'Isère, France	GS	Marcel Hirscher	Thomas Fanara	Stefan Luitz	[17]
15 December 2013		SL	Mario Matt	Mattias Hargin	Patrick Thaler	[18]
20 December 2013	Val Gardena, Italy	SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Jan Hudec	Adrien Théaux	[19]
21 December 2013		DH	Erik Guay	Kjetil Jansrud	Johan Clarey	[20]
22 December 2013	Alta Badia, Italy	GS	Marcel Hirscher	Alexis Pinturault	Ted Ligety	[21]
29 December 2013	Bormio, Italy	DH	Aksel Lund Svindal	Hannes Reichelt	Erik Guay	[22]
6 January 2014		SL	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher	Manfred Moelgg	[23]
1 January 2014	Munich, Germany	P	cancelled due to warm temperatures; not rescheduled
6 January 2014	Zagreb, Croatia	SL	warm temperatures; rescheduled to Bormio
11 January 2014	Adelboden, Switzerland	GS	Felix Neureuther	Thomas Fanara	Marcel Hirscher	[24]
12 January 2014		SL	Marcel Hirscher	André Myhrer	Henrik Kristoffersen	[25]
17 January 2014	Wengen, Switzerland	SC	Ted Ligety	Alexis Pinturault	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	[26]
18 January 2014		DH	Patrick Küng	Hannes Reichelt	Aksel Lund Svindal	[27]
19 January 2014		SL	Alexis Pinturault	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher	[28]
24 January 2014	Kitzbühel, Austria	SL	Felix Neureuther	Henrik Kristoffersen	Patrick Thaler	[29]
25 January 2014		DH	Hannes Reichelt	Aksel Lund Svindal	Bode Miller	[30]
26 January 2014		SG	Didier Défago	Bode Miller	Max Franz Aksel Lund Svindal	[31]
		SC	Alexis Pinturault	Ted Ligety	Marcel Hirscher	[32]
28 January 2014	Schladming, Austria	SL	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther	[33]
1 February 2014	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	DH	lack of snow, rescheduled to St. Moritz
2 February 2014		GS
1 February 2014	St. Moritz, Switzerland	DH	fog, rescheduled to Kvitfjell
2 February 2014		GS	Ted Ligety	Marcel Hirscher	Alexis Pinturault	[34]
2014 Winter Olympics   (7–23 February)
28 February 2014	Kvitfjell, Norway	DH	Kjetil Jansrud Georg Streitberger		Travis Ganong	[35]
[36]		1 March 2014	DH	Erik Guay	Johan Clarey	Matthias Mayer	[37]
2 March 2014		SG	Kjetil Jansrud	Patrick Küng	Matthias Mayer	[38]
8 March 2014	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	GS	Ted Ligety	Benjamin Raich	Henrik Kristoffersen	[39]
9 March 2014		SL	Felix Neureuther	Fritz Dopfer	Henrik Kristoffersen	[40]
12 March 2014	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	DH	Matthias Mayer	Christof Innerhofer Ted Ligety		[41]
13 March 2014		SG	Alexis Pinturault	Thomas Mermillod-Blondin	Bode Miller	[42]
15 March 2014		GS	Ted Ligety	Alexis Pinturault	Felix Neureuther	[43]
16 March 2014		SL	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther	Mario Matt	[44]

Ladies

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
26 October 2013	Sölden, Austria	GS	Lara Gut	Kathrin Zettel	Viktoria Rebensburg	[45]
16 November 2013	Levi, Finland	SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Tina Maze	[46]
29 November 2013	Beaver Creek, USA	DH	Lara Gut	Tina Weirather	Elena Fanchini	[47]
30 November 2013		SG	Lara Gut	Anna Fenninger	Nicole Hosp	[48]
1 December 2013		GS	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	Mikaela Shiffrin	Tina Weirather	[49]
6 December 2013	Lake Louise, Canada	DH	Maria Höfl-Riesch	M. Kaufmann-Abderhalden	Elena Fanchini	[50]
7 December 2013		DH	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Tina Weirather	Anna Fenninger	[51]
8 December 2013		SG	Lara Gut	Tina Weirather	Anna Fenninger	[52]
14 December 2013	St. Moritz, Switzerland	SG	Tina Weirather	Kajsa Kling	Anna Fenninger	[53]
15 December 2013		GS	Tessa Worley	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	Tina Maze	[54]
17 December 2013	Courchevel, France	SL	Marlies Schild	Frida Hansdotter	Bernadette Schild	[55]
21 December 2013	Val-d'Isère, France	DH	M Kaufmann-Abderhalden	Tina Maze	Cornelia Hütter	[56]
22 December 2013		GS	Tina Weirather	Lara Gut	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	[57]
28 December 2013	Lienz, Austria	GS	Anna Fenninger	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	Mikaela Shiffrin	[58]
29 December 2013		SL	Marlies Schild	Mikaela Shiffrin	Maria Höfl-Riesch	[59]
1 January 2014	Munich, Germany	P	cancelled due to warm temperatures; not rescheduled
4 January 2014	Zagreb, Croatia	SL	warm temperatures, rescheduled to Bormio
5 January 2014	Bormio, Italy	SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	Nastasia Noens	[60]
11 January 2014	Altenmarkt, Austria	DH	Elisabeth Görgl	Anna Fenninger	Maria Höfl-Riesch	[61]
12 January 2014		SC	Marie-Michèle Gagnon	Michaela Kirchgasser	Maria Höfl-Riesch	[62]
14 January 2014	Flachau, Austria	SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Frida Hansdotter	Maria Pietilä Holmner	[63]
18 January 2014	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	DH	winter storm, rescheduled to 19 January, then 24 January
19 January 2014		SG	winter storm, rescheduled to 23 January
23 January 2014 [64]		SG	Elisabeth Görgl	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Nicole Hosp	[65]
24 January 2014		DH	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Tina Weirather	Nicole Schmidhofer	[66]
25 January 2014		DH	Tina Maze	M. Kaufmann-Abderhalden	Tina Weirather	[67]
26 January 2014		SG	Lara Gut	Tina Weirather	Maria Höfl-Riesch	[68]
25 January 2014	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	DH	lack of snow, rescheduled to Cortina d'Ampezzo
26 January 2014		SG
1 February 2014	Maribor, Slovenia	GS	lack of snow, rescheduled to Kranjska Gora
2 February 2014		SL
1 February 2014	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	GS	heavy snowfall, rescheduled to Åre
2 February 2014		SL	Frida Hansdotter	Marlies Schild	Bernadette Schild	[69]
2014 Winter Olympics   (7–23 February)
1 March 2014	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	DH	fog, rescheduled to following day
2 March 2014		DH	Andrea Fischbacher	Anna Fenninger	Tina Maze	[70]
2 March 2014		SC	cancelled due to rescheduling of downhill
6 March 2014	Åre, Sweden	GS	Anna Fenninger	Anemone Marmottan	Eva-Maria Brem    Lara Gut	[71]
7 March 2014		GS	Anna Fenninger	Viktoria Rebensburg	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	[72]
8 March 2014		SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	Anna Swenn-Larsson	[73]
12 March 2014	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	DH	Lara Gut	Elisabeth Görgl	Fränzi Aufdenblatten	[74]
13 March 2014		SG	Lara Gut	Anna Fenninger	Tina Maze	[75]
15 March 2014		SL	Mikaela Shiffrin	Frida Hansdotter	Marlies Schild	[76]
16 March 2014		GS	Anna Fenninger	Eva-Maria Brem	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	[77]

Team event

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
25 February 2014	Innsbruck, Austria	TE	Sweden Maria Pietilä-Holmner Anna Swenn-Larsson Mattias Hargin Anton Lahdenperä Markus Larsson	Norway Mona Løseth Nina Løseth Truls Johansen Sebastian Foss Solevåg	Switzerland Denise Feierabend Wendy Holdener Nadja Vogel Marc Gini Reto Schmidiger Markus Vogel	[78]
14 March 2014	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	TE	Switzerland Denise Feierabend Luana Flütsch Wendy Holdener Luca Aerni Marc Gini Reto Schmidiger	United States Julia Mancuso Mikaela Shiffrin David Chodounsky Tim Jitloff	Austria Eva-Maria Brem Michaela Kirchgasser Bernadette Schild Manuel Feller Philipp Schörghofer	[79]

Standings: Men

Overall Pos. Points 1. Marcel Hirscher 1222 2. Aksel Lund Svindal 1091 3. Alexis Pinturault 1028 4. Ted Ligety 991 5. Felix Neureuther 813 Standings after 34 of 34 races.

Downhill Pos. Points 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 570 2. Hannes Reichelt 360 3. Erik Guay 357 4. Kjetil Jansrud 328 5.    Patrick Küng 307 5. Matthias Mayer 307 Standings after 9 of 9 races.

Super-G Pos. Points 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 346 2. Kjetil Jansrud 259 3.    Patrick Küng 255 4. Matthias Mayer 236 5. Bode Miller 220 Standings after 6 of 6 races.

Giant slalom Pos. Points 1. Ted Ligety 560 2. Marcel Hirscher 560 3. Alexis Pinturault 458 4. Thomas Fanara 278 5. Felix Neureuther 263 Standings after 8 of 8 races.

Slalom Pos. Points 1. Marcel Hirscher 565 2. Felix Neureuther 550 3. Henrik Kristoffersen 454 4. Patrick Thaler 351 5. Mattias Hargin 359 Standings after 9 of 9 races.

Combined Pos. Points 1. Ted Ligety 180 1. Alexis Pinturault 180 3. Thomas Mermillod-Blondin 90 4.    Sandro Viletta 86 5. Natko Zrnčić-Dim 70 Standings after 2 of 2 races.

Source:^[80]

Standings: Ladies

Overall Pos. Points 1. Anna Fenninger 1371 2. Maria Höfl-Riesch 1180 3.    Lara Gut 1101 4. Tina Maze 964 5. Tina Weirather 943 Standings after 32 of 32 races.

Downhill Pos. Points 1. Maria Höfl-Riesch 504 2. Anna Fenninger 464 3. Tina Maze 409 4. Tina Weirather 400 5.    M. Kaufmann-Abderhalden 389 Standings after 9 of 9 races.

Super-G Pos. Points 1.    Lara Gut 448 2. Anna Fenninger 357 3. Tina Weirather 310 4. Elisabeth Görgl 240 5. Maria Höfl-Riesch 216 Standings after 6 of 6 races.

Giant slalom Pos. Points 1. Anna Fenninger 518 2. Jessica Lindell-Vikarby 492 3. Maria Pietilä-Holmner 339 4.    Lara Gut 285 5. Kathrin Zettel 284 Standings after 8 of 8 races.

Slalom Pos. Points 1. Mikaela Shiffrin 638 2. Frida Hansdotter 488 3. Marlies Schild 385 4. Maria Pietilä-Holmner 308 5. Maria Höfl-Riesch 234 Standings after 8 of 8 races.

Combined Pos. Points 1. Marie-Michèle Gagnon 100 2. Michaela Kirchgasser 80 3. Maria Höfl-Riesch 60 4. Nicole Hosp 50 5. Sara Hector 45 Standings after 1 of 1 races.

Source:^[80]

Standings: Nations Cup

Overall Pos. Points 1.  Austria 11489 2.   Switzerland 5773 3.  Italy 5335 4.  France 4825 5.  United States 4801 Standings after 68 of 68 races.

Men Pos. Points 1.  Austria 5393 2.  France 3689 3.  Italy 3253 4.  Norway 2955 5.  United States 2780 Standings after 34 of 34 races.

Ladies Pos. Points 1.  Austria 6096 2.   Switzerland 3356 3.  Sweden 2938 4.  Italy 2082 5.  Germany 2029 Standings after 32 of 32 races.

source:^[81]

References

External links

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

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