2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill

2023 Women's downhill World Cup
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The women's downhill in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of nine events, including the final. The original schedule called for eleven events, but the first two races of the season scheduled for 5 and 6 November 2022 in Zermatt/Cervinia (on the Matterhorn, which would have crossed an international border between the start (in Switzerland) and the finish (in Italy)), were canceled due to adverse weather conditions; the FIS decided not to reschedule them. Once the season began, a downhill scheduled in St. Anton on 14 January had to be converted into a Super-G due to the inability to hold a pre-race training run on either of the two days prior to the downhill. However, a subsequent Super-G scheduled at Cortina d'Ampezzo was converted into a downhill, restoring the original schedule.

Three-time discipline champion (and two-time defending champion) Sofia Goggia of Italy won four of the first five downhills, similar to the prior two seasons, and established a lead of more than 200 points. Goggia was the only skier to reach the podium in all five races, as she finished second in the race that she did not win. After winning the race in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Goggia held a lead of 179 points over 2017 discipline champion Ilka Štuhec of Slovenia, with only two races remaining. In the next downhill in Kvitfjell, Goggia's runner-up finish secured her third straight discipline championship (and fourth overall).

The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France from 6–19 February 2023. Although the Alpine Skiing branch of the International Ski Federation (FIS) conducts both the World Cup and the World Championships, the World Championships are organized by nation (a maximum of four skiers is generally permitted per nation), and (after 1970) the results count only for World Championship medals, not for World Cup points. Accordingly, the results in the World Championship are highlighted in blue and shown in this table by ordinal position only in each discipline. The women's downhill was held in Méribel on 11 February.

The World Cup finals took place on Wednesday, 15 March in Soldeu, Andorra, which also hosted the finals in 2019. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup downhill discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, were eligible to compete in the discipline final, and only the top 15 earned World Cup points.

Standings

Rank Name
5 Nov 2022
Zermatt/Cervinia

  
6 Nov 2022
Zermatt/Cervinia

  
2 Dec 2022
Lake Louise
3 Dec 2022
Lake Louise
16 Dec 2022
St. Moritz

  
17 Dec 2022
St. Moritz

  
20 Jan 2023
Cortina d'Ampezzo
21 Jan 2023
Cortina d'Ampezzo
11 Feb 2023
Méribel


WC
26 Feb 2023
Crans Montana

  
4 Mar 2023
Kvitfjell
15 Mar 2023
Soldeu

 Total
Sofia Goggia x x 100 100 80 100 100 DNF DSQ 100 80 80 740
2   Ilka Štuhec x x 45 45 22 80 80 100 ⑥ 29 50 100 551
3    Corinne Suter x x 80 60 60 18 DNF DNS ③ 11 60 20 309
4 Elena Curtoni x x 32 22 100 32 32 60 ⑬ 10 20 DNF 308
5 Mirjam Puchner x x 50 45 14 36 4 29 ④ 26 24 45 273
6    Lara Gut-Behrami x x 13 20 32 22 45 50 ⑨ 20 10 60 272
7 Kira Weidle x x 36 24 7 60 60 16 ⑧ 18 DNF 29 250
8   Kajsa Vickhoff Lie x x 1 1 0 7 20 80 ⑮ 5 100 32 246
9 Nina Ortlieb x x 40 80 18 40 18 DNF ② 4 29 DNF 229
10   Ragnhild Mowinckel x x 6 29 32 13 9 50 ⑩ 50 13 24 226
11 Breezy Johnson x x 15 5 45 6 29 26 DNF 24 32 40 222
12 Mikaela Shiffrin x x DNS 40 50 50 36 DNS 45 DNS 221
13    Joana Hählen x x 29 50 15 29 6 6 ⑰ 45 18 22 220
14 Federica Brignone x x DNS 3 36 0 13 DNS 80 36 50 218
15    Jasmine Flury x x 26 16 50 26 8 13 ① 14 14 18 185
16 Cornelia Hütter x x 60 DNS 24 45 14 22 ④ 0 DNF 0 165
17 Isabella Wright x x 20 13 DNF 24 24 15 ⑲ DNF 22 36 154
18 Laura Gauché x x 5 4 7 9 36 DNF ⑫ 60 0 29 150
19    Michelle Gisin x x 9 32 12 16 11 26 DNS 32 2 0 140
20    Priska Nufer x x 2 12 3 11 5 40 ⑪ 40 26 0 139
21 Laura Pirovano x x 8 0 26 14 22 14 ⑭ 36 16 0 136
22 Stephanie Venier x x DNS 11 11 15 26 32 ⑦ 3 15 0 113
23 Ramona Siebenhofer x x 3 15 0 13 15 20 DNS 0 45 DNS 111
24 Nicol Delago x x 22 36 0 3 13 10 ⑱ 0 5 16 105
25 Christina Ager x x 15 2 20 10 10 10 DNS 16 11 0 94
26 Tamara Tippler x x DNS 9 20 40 20 DNS DNF DNS 89
27 Romane Miradoli x x 24 26 DNF 2 18 12 ⑮ DNF DNS NE 82
28 Emma Aicher x x 0 10 16 8 DNS DNF 6 8 NE 48
   Delia Durrer x x 11 20 0 0 2 8 DNS 0 7 NE 48
30 Ariane Rädler x x 16 14 0 1 DNS 13 DNS NE 44
31 Marta Bassino x x 10 9 DNS 0 DNS 15 DNS 0 34
Nadia Delago x x 4 8 0 5 3 7 DNS 7 0 NE 34
Alice Robinson x x DNS 0 DNS 1 DNS 24 9 NE 34
34    Stephanie Jenal x x DNF 0 5 0 0 11 DNS 12 4 NE 32
35    Juliana Suter x x 18 7 0 0 0 0 DNS 2 0 NE 27
36 Stefanie Fleckenstein x x 0 0 0 0 0 0 DNS 8 12 NE 20
Marie-Michèle Gagnon x x 7 6 3 4 DNF DNS NE 20
38 Cande Moreno x x DNF 0 10 DNF 0 DNF ㉒ 0 6 NE 16
39 Tricia Mangan x x 0 DNS 14 0 0 0 ㉓ 1 0 NE 15
Nicole Schmidhofer x x 12 0 DNS 0 DNS 3 DNS NE 15
41 Petra Vlhová x x DNS DNF DNS 9 DNS 9
42 Karoline Pichler x x 0 0 8 DNF DNF 0 DNS DNF DNS NE 8
43 Nadine Fest x x DNS 0 DNS 7 0 DNS 0 0 NE 7
44 Keely Cashman x x 0 0 0 0 0 4 DNS 0 2 NE 6
45    Janine Schmitt x x DNS 0 5 DNS NE 5
46 Katrin Hirtl-Stanggaßinger x x DNS 4 0 0 DNF DNS 0 0 NE 4
47 Franziska Gritsch x x DNS 0 DNF DNS 3 NE 3
Elvedina Muzaferija x x 0 0 0 0 0 3 ⑳ DNF 0 NE 3
49 Anouck Errard x x DNS 0 0 0 1 ㉑ 0 DNS NE 1
Lauren Macuga x x DNS 1 0 DNS 0 0 NE 1
References

Legend

  •   Winner (100 points)
  •   2nd place (80 points)
  •   3rd place (60 points)
  • DNF = Did not finish
  • DSQ = Disqualified
  •   Did not start (DNS)
  •   Not eligible for finals (NE)
  •   Race canceled (x)
  •   FIS non-World Cup race (World Championships)
  • Updated at 15 March 2023, after all events.

See also