2008–09 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2008/09
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2008/09
Discipline	Men
Overall	Aksel Lund Svindal
Downhill	Michael Walchhofer
Super-G	Aksel Lund Svindal
Giant slalom	Didier Cuche
Slalom	Jean-Baptiste Grange
Super combined	Carlo Janka
Nations Cup	Austria
Nations Cup Overall	Austria
Competition
Locations	18
Individual	36
Mixed	1
Cancelled	1
Rescheduled	3
	←2007/08 2009/10→

The 43rd World Cup season began in late October 2008 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded in mid-March 2009, at the World Cup finals in Åre, Sweden.

2009 World Cup Champions

Aksel Lund Svindal

Lindsey Vonn

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the overall title by two points over Benjamin Raich of Austria. Svindal returned from a season-ending injury in December 2007, and also took the season title in super-G. Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. repeated as women's overall champion, taking the title by a substantial 384 points over Maria Riesch of Germany. Vonn also repeated as the season downhill champion, and added the season title in super-G.

Being an odd-numbered year, a break in the World Cup schedule was for the biennial World Championships. The 2009 World Championships were held 2–15 February in Val-d'Isère, Savoie, France.

No pre-Olympic World Cup alpine events were run at Whistler Mountain, Canada, during the 2009 season. In late February 2008, a women's downhill and super-combined were run on Franz's Run, the women's Olympic course. The most recent men's World Cup events on the Dave Murray Downhill course were held in late February 1995. The World Cup races in North America were switched to the early part of the season in the fall of 1995, and the men's speed events at Whistler were canceled three consecutive years (December 1996–98) due to weather issues, which prompted the switch to Lake Louise in Alberta in December 1999.

Calendar

Men

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, KB – Classic Combined, SC – Super combined, PS – Parallel slalom (promo event only)^[1]
Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third	Details
1338	1	26 October 2008	Sölden	GS ₃₂₆	Daniel Albrecht	Didier Cuche	Ted Ligety	[1]
1339	2	16 November 2008	Levi	SL ₃₈₂	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Bode Miller	Mario Matt	[2]
1340	3	29 November 2008	Lake Louise	DH ₃₈₈	Peter Fill	Carlo Janka	Hans Olsson	[3]
1341	4	30 November 2008	Lake Louise	SG ₁₄₂	Hermann Maier	John Kucera	Didier Cuche	[4]
		4 December 2008	Beaver Creek	SC _cnx	heavy snowfall; replaced in Val-d'Isère on 12 December 2008^[2]
1342	5	5 December 2008		DH ₃₈₉	Aksel Lund Svindal	Marco Büchel	Erik Guay	[5]
1343	6	6 December 2008		SG ₁₄₃	Aksel Lund Svindal	Hermann Maier	Michael Walchhofer	[6]
1344	7	7 December 2008		GS ₃₂₇	Benjamin Raich	Ted Ligety	Aksel Lund Svindal	[7]
1345	8	^{[nb 1]}12 December 2008	Val-d'Isère	SC ₁₀₁	Benjamin Raich	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Marcel Hirscher	[8]^[3]
1346	9	13 December 2008		GS ₃₂₈	Carlo Janka	Massimiliano Blardone	Gauthier de Tessières	[9]
		14 December 2008		SL _cnx	high winds; replaced in Alta Badia on 22 December 2008^[4]
1347	10	19 December 2008	Val Gardena	SG ₁₄₄	Werner Heel	Didier Défago	Patrik Järbyn	[10]
1348	11	20 December 2008	Val Gardena	DH ₃₉₀	Michael Walchhofer	Bode Miller	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	[11]
1349	12	21 December 2008	Alta Badia	GS ₃₂₉	Daniel Albrecht	Ivica Kostelić	Hannes Reichelt	[12]
1350	13	^{[nb 2]}22 December 2008	Alta Badia	SL ₃₈₃	Ivica Kostelić	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Benjamin Raich	[13]
1351	14	28 December 2008	Bormio	DH ₃₉₁	Christof Innerhofer	Klaus Kröll	Michael Walchhofer	[14]

Promo event		2 January 2009	Moscow (unofficial)	PS _pro	Felix Neureuther	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Bode Miller

1352	15	6 January 2009	Zagreb	SL ₃₈₄	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Ivica Kostelić	Giuliano Razzoli	[15]
1353	16	10 January 2009	Adelboden	GS ₃₃₀	Benjamin Raich	Massimiliano Blardone	Kjetil Jansrud	[16]
1354	17	11 January 2009	Adelboden	SL ₃₈₅	Reinfried Herbst	Manfred Pranger	Felix Neureuther	[17]
1355	18	16 January 2009	Wengen	SC ₁₀₂	Carlo Janka	Peter Fill	Silvan Zurbriggen	[18]
1356	19	17 January 2009		DH ₃₉₂	Didier Défago	Bode Miller	Marco Sullivan	[19]
1357	20	18 January 2009		SL ₃₈₆	Manfred Pranger	Reinfried Herbst	Ivica Kostelić	[20]
1358	21	23 January 2009	Kitzbühel	SG ₁₄₅	Klaus Kröll	Aksel Lund Svindal	Ambrosi Hoffmann	[21]
1359	22	24 January 2009		DH ₃₉₃	Didier Défago	Michael Walchhofer	Klaus Kröll	[22]
1360	23	25 January 2009		SL ₃₈₇	Julien Lizeroux	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Patrick Thaler	[23]
1361	24	25 January 2009		KB ₁₀₃	Silvan Zurbriggen	Ivica Kostelić	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	[24]
1362	25	27 January 2009	Schladming	SL ₃₈₈	Reinfried Herbst	Manfred Pranger	Ivica Kostelić	[25]
		31 January 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	DH _cnx	fog at mid-course; replaced in Kvitfjell on 6 March 2009^[5]
1363	26	1 February 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	SL ₃₈₉	Manfred Mölgg	Giorgio Rocca	Reinfried Herbst	[26]
2009 World Championships (2–15 February)
1364	27	21 February 2009	Sestriere	GS ₃₃₁	Didier Cuche	Stephan Görgl	Benjamin Raich	[27]
1365	28	22 February 2009	Sestriere	SC ₁₀₄	Romed Baumann	Julien Lizeroux	Carlo Janka Christof Innerhofer	[28]
1366	29	28 February 2009	Kranjska Gora	GS ₃₃₂	Ted Ligety	Didier Cuche	Massimiliano Blardone	[29]
1367	30	1 March 2009	Kranjska Gora	SL ₃₉₀	Julien Lizeroux	Giuliano Razzoli	Felix Neureuther	[30]
1368	31	^{[nb 3]}6 March 2009	Kvitfjell	DH ₃₉₄	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	Michael Walchhofer	Aksel Lund Svindal	[31]
1369	32	7 March 2009		DH ₃₉₅	Klaus Kröll	Michael Walchhofer	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	[32]
		8 March 2009		SG _cnx	snowstorm^[6]
1370	33	11 March 2009	Åre	DH ₃₉₆	Aksel Lund Svindal	Didier Cuche	Hans Olsson	[33]
1371	34	12 March 2009		SG ₁₄₆	Werner Heel	Aksel Lund Svindal	Christof Innerhofer	[34]
1372	35	13 March 2009		GS ₃₃₃	Benjamin Raich	Ted Ligety	Didier Cuche	[35]
1373	36	14 March 2009		SL ₃₉₁	Mario Matt	Julien Lizeroux	Jean-Baptiste Grange	[36]

Ladies

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, SC – Super combined^[7]
Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third	Details
1252	1	25 October 2008	Sölden	GS ₃₂₅	Kathrin Zettel	Tanja Poutiainen	Andrea Fischbacher	[37]
1253	2	15 November 2008	Levi	SL ₃₆₅	Lindsey Vonn	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	Maria Riesch	[38]
1254	3	29 November 2008	Aspen	GS ₃₂₆	Tessa Worley	Tanja Poutiainen	Elisabeth Görgl	[39]
1255	4	30 November 2008	Aspen	SL ₃₆₆	Šárka Záhrobská	Nicole Hosp	Tanja Poutiainen	[40]
1256	5	5 December 2008	Lake Louise	DH ₃₂₂	Lindsey Vonn	Nadia Fanchini	Maria Riesch	[41]
		6 December 2008		DH _cnx	heavy snowfall; replaced in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 23 January 2009^[8]
1257	6	7 December 2008		SG ₁₅₈	Nadia Fanchini	Fabienne Suter Andrea Fischbacher		[42]
1258	7	13 December 2008	La Molina	GS ₃₂₇	Tanja Poutiainen	Manuela Mölgg	Nicole Hosp	[43]
1259	8	14 December 2008	La Molina	SL ₃₆₇	Maria Riesch	Lindsey Vonn	Kathrin Zettel	[44]
1260	9	19 December 2008	St. Moritz	SC ₀₈₂	Anja Pärson	Nicole Hosp	Fabienne Suter	[45]
1261	10	20 December 2008		SG ₁₅₉	Lara Gut	Fabienne Suter	Nadia Fanchini	[46]
		21 December 2008		DH _cnx	high winds; replaced in Bansko on 27 February 2009^[9]
1262	11	28 December 2008	Semmering	GS ₃₂₈	Kathrin Zettel	Manuela Mölgg	Lara Gut	[47]
1263	12	29 December 2008	Semmering	SL ₃₆₈	Maria Riesch	Tanja Poutiainen	Lindsey Vonn	[48]
1264	13	4 January 2009	Zagreb	SL ₃₆₉	Maria Riesch	Nicole Gius	Šárka Záhrobská	[49]
1265	14	10 January 2009	Maribor	GS ₃₂₉	Tina Maze	Denise Karbon	Kathrin Hölzl	[50]
1266	15	11 January 2009	Maribor	SL ₃₇₀	Maria Riesch	Kathrin Zettel	Tanja Poutiainen	[51]
1267	16	17 January 2009	Altenmarkt	SC ₀₈₃	Lindsey Vonn	Kathrin Zettel	Anja Pärson	[52]
1268	17	18 January 2009	Altenmarkt	DH ₃₂₃	Dominique Gisin Anja Pärson		Lindsey Vonn	[53]
		22 January 2009	Cortina d'Ampezzo	SG _cnx	blizzard; replaced in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 26 January 2009
		23 January 2009		DH _cnx	heavy snowfall
1269	18	24 January 2009		DH ₃₂₄	Dominique Gisin	Lindsey Vonn	Anja Pärson	[54]
1270	19	25 January 2009		GS ₃₃₀	Kathrin Zettel	Michaela Kirchgasser	Elisabeth Görgl	[55]
1271	20	^{[nb 4]}26 January 2009		SG ₁₆₀	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	Anna Fenninger	Andrea Dettling	[56]
1272	21	30 January 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	SL ₃₇₁	Lindsey Vonn	Maria Riesch	Maruša Ferk	[57]
		31 January 2009		SG _cnx	fog: mid-course; replaced in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 1 February 2009^[5]
1273	22	^{[nb 5]}1 February 2009		SG ₁₆₁	Lindsey Vonn	Anja Pärson	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	[58]
2009 World Championships (2–15 February)
1274	23	20 February 2009	Tarvisio	SC ₀₈₄	Maria Riesch	Lindsey Vonn	Kathrin Zettel	[59]
1275	24	21 February 2009		DH ₃₂₅	Gina Stechert	Lindsey Vonn	Anja Pärson	[60]
1276	25	22 February 2009		SG ₁₆₂	Lindsey Vonn	Fabienne Suter	Tina Maze	[61]
1277	26	^{[nb 6]}27 February 2009	Bansko	DH ₃₂₆	Fabienne Suter	Andrea Fischbacher	Nadia Fanchini Lindsey Vonn	[62]
1278	27	28 February 2009		DH ₃₂₇	Andrea Fischbacher	Tina Maze	Fabienne Suter	[63]
1279	28	1 March 2009		SG ₁₆₃	Lindsey Vonn	Fabienne Suter	Tina Maze	[64]
1280	29	6 March 2009	Ofterschwang	GS ₃₃₁	Kathrin Zettel	Elisabeth Görgl	Tanja Poutiainen	[65]
1281	30	7 March 2009	Ofterschwang	SL ₃₇₂	Sandrine Aubert	Frida Hansdotter	Nicole Hosp	[66]
1282	31	11 March 2009	Åre	DH ₃₂₈	Lindsey Vonn	Maria Riesch	Renate Götschl	[67]
1283	32	12 March 2009		SG ₁₆₄	Lindsey Vonn	Nadia Fanchini	Maria Riesch	[68]
1284	33	13 March 2009		SL ₃₇₃	Sandrine Aubert	Fanny Chmelar	Therese Borssén Šárka Záhrobská	[69]
1285	34	14 March 2009		GS ₃₃₂	Tina Maze	Tanja Poutiainen	Manuela Mölgg	[70]

Nations team event

Event key: SC – Super combined (super-G + slalom)
Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third	Details
3	1	15 March 2009	Åre	SC ₀₀₃	Italy Nadia Fanchini Nicole Gius Daniela Merighetti Peter Fill Werner Heel Manfred Mölgg	Austria Andrea Fischbacher Elisabeth Görgl Kathrin Zettel Marcel Hirscher Mario Matt Hannes Reichelt	Switzerland Sandra Gini Lara Gut Fabienne Suter Marc Berthod Didier Cuche Carlo Janka	[71]

Men's standings

Overall

Rank	after all 36 races	Points
1	Aksel Lund Svindal	1009
2	Benjamin Raich	1007
3	Didier Cuche	919
4	Ivica Kostelić	891
5	Jean-Baptiste Grange	887

Downhill

Rank	after all 9 races	Points
1	Michael Walchhofer	470
2	Klaus Kröll	424
3	Didier Défago	363
4	Aksel Lund Svindal	323
5	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	323

Super-G

Rank	after all 5 races	Points
1	Aksel Lund Svindal	292
2	Werner Heel	256
3	Didier Défago	242
4	Hermann Maier	231
5	Christof Innerhofer	168

Giant slalom

Rank	after all 8 races	Points
1	Didier Cuche	474
2	Benjamin Raich	462
3	Ted Ligety	421
4	Massimiliano Blardone	325
5	Aksel Lund Svindal	260

Slalom

Rank	after all 10 races	Points
1	Jean-Baptiste Grange	541
2	Ivica Kostelić	454
3	Julien Lizeroux	419
4	Manfred Pranger	415
5	Reinfried Herbst	396

Super combined

Rank	after all 4 races	Points
1	Carlo Janka	242
2	Silvan Zurbriggen	231
3	Romed Baumann	169
4	Ivica Kostelić	166
5	Benjamin Raich	165

Ladies' standings

Overall

Rank	after all 34 races	Points
1	Lindsey Vonn	1788
2	Maria Riesch	1404
3	Anja Pärson	1059
4	Kathrin Zettel	1046
5	Tanja Poutiainen	914

Downhill

Rank	after all 7 races	Points
1	Lindsey Vonn	502
2	Andrea Fischbacher	326
3	Maria Riesch	292
4	Dominique Gisin	291
5	Nadia Fanchini	276

Super-G

Rank	after all 7 races	Points
1	Lindsey Vonn	461
2	Nadia Fanchini	416
3	Fabienne Suter	408
4	Anja Pärson	251
5	Andrea Dettling	221

Giant slalom

Rank	after all 8 races	Points
1	Tanja Poutiainen	508
2	Kathrin Zettel	501
3	Tina Maze	368
4	Elisabeth Görgl	318
5	Denise Karbon	282

Slalom

Rank	after all 9 races	Points
1	Maria Riesch	670
2	Šárka Záhrobská	459
3	Lindsey Vonn	440
4	Tanja Poutiainen	406
5	Sandrine Aubert	325

Super combined

Rank	after all 3 races	Points
1	Anja Pärson	205
2	Lindsey Vonn	180
3	Kathrin Zettel	162
4	Maria Riesch	150
5	Elisabeth Görgl	113

Nations Cup

Overall

Rank	after all 70 races	Points
1	Austria	10740
2	Switzerland	7786
3	Italy	5974
4	France	4490
5	United States	4158

Men

Rank	after all 36 races	Points
1	Austria	5982
2	Switzerland	4238
3	Italy	3426
4	France	2681
5	United States	1881

Ladies

Rank	after all 34 races	Points
1	Austria	4758
2	Switzerland	3548
3	Germany	2550
4	Italy	2548
5	Sweden	2441

Footnotes

^ Super combined from Beaver Creek was rescheduled to Val-d'Isère on 12 December 2008
^ Slalom from Val-d'Isère was rescheduled to Alta Badia on 22 December 2008
^ Downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen was rescheduled to Kvitfjell on 6 March 2009
^ Super giant slalom from Cortina d'Ampezzo was rescheduled from 22 to 26 February 2009
^ Super giant slalom from Garmisch-Partenkirchen was rescheduled from 31 January 2009 to 1 February 2009
^ Downhill from St. Moritz was rescheduled to Bansko to 27 February 2009

References

^ "FIS: Alpine World Cup 2009 men's schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
^ "Super combined cancelled at Beaver Creek", 4 December 2008.
^ "FIS Official Communication". Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
^ "Val d'Isere: winds cancel men's slalom", 14 December 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Garmisch: Fog dooms Saturday races", 31 January 2009.
^ "Kvitfjell: Snow cancels Cup super G", 8 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
^ "FIS: Alpine World Cup 2009 ladies' schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
^ "Second Louise DH cancelled by snowfall", 6 December 2008.
^ "St Moritz: High winds force DH cancellation", 21 December 2008.

External links

FIS-ski.com – World Cup standings
Ski Racing.com – U.S.-based magazine – alpine racing news
U.S. Ski Team.com – alpine news

[3] Super combined from Beaver Creek was rescheduled to Val-d'Isère on 12 December 2008

[6] Slalom from Val-d'Isère was rescheduled to Alta Badia on 22 December 2008

[8] Downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen was rescheduled to Kvitfjell on 6 March 2009

[13] Super giant slalom from Cortina d'Ampezzo was rescheduled from 22 to 26 February 2009

[14] Super giant slalom from Garmisch-Partenkirchen was rescheduled from 31 January 2009 to 1 February 2009

[15] Downhill from St. Moritz was rescheduled to Bansko to 27 February 2009

[1] "FIS: Alpine World Cup 2009 men's schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.

[2] "Super combined cancelled at Beaver Creek", 4 December 2008.

[2008-12-04-sc-rescheduled-4] "FIS Official Communication". Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2008.

[5] "Val d'Isere: winds cancel men's slalom", 14 December 2008.

[Garmisch-7] "Garmisch: Fog dooms Saturday races", 31 January 2009.

[9] "Kvitfjell: Snow cancels Cup super G", 8 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-08.

[10] "FIS: Alpine World Cup 2009 ladies' schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.

[11] "Second Louise DH cancelled by snowfall", 6 December 2008.

[12] "St Moritz: High winds force DH cancellation", 21 December 2008.

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FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2008/09
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Aksel Lund Svindal	Lindsey Vonn
Downhill	Michael Walchhofer	Lindsey Vonn
Super-G	Aksel Lund Svindal	Lindsey Vonn
Giant slalom	Didier Cuche	Tanja Poutiainen
Slalom	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Maria Riesch
Super combined	Carlo Janka	Anja Pärson
Nations Cup	Austria	Austria
Nations Cup Overall	Austria
Competition
Locations	18	16
Individual	36	34
Mixed	1	1
Cancelled	1	1
Rescheduled	3	3
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