2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

2023 Women's Overall World Cup
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The women's overall competition in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (9 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (11 races). The fifth and sixth disciplines, parallel (PAR). and Alpine combined (AC), had all events in the 2022–23 season cancelled, either due to the schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic (AC) or due to bad weather (PAR). The original schedule called for 42 races, but in addition to the parallel, two downhills and a super-G were cancelled during the season.

The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France, which are located in Les Trois Vallées, from 6–19 February 2023.

Season summary

From the very first race of the season, defending champion (and four-time overall champion) Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States seized the lead in the standings due to her abilities in all four disciplines. After the first thirteen races, she had built over a 300-point lead over 2021 overall champion Petra Vlhová of Slovakia. In addition, with her victory in a slalom at Semmering, Austria on December 29, Shiffrin, 27, became only the third skier (and second woman) to win 80 World Cup races, as well as the first ever to win 50 races in a single discipline.

After 24 races, almost two-thirds of the season, Shiffrin held a lead of over 500 points over Vlhová, with 2016 overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland close behind in third; however, the focus of the moment was on Shiffrin's quest to break Lindsey Vonn's all-time women's record of 82 World Cup victories (which she had already tied) and then Ingemar Stenmark's all-time overall record of 86 such victories. She shattered Vonn's record with victories in back-to-back giant slaloms in Kronplatz on 24-25 January, increasing her overall lead (now with Gut-Behrami in second) to over 600 points.

By the end of January, which was the time for the break for the 2023 World Ski Championships, Shiffrin had 11 wins on the season (1 in super-G and 5 each in giant slalom and slalom) and 85 wins for her career. Shiffrin's fifth-place finish in a downhill at Kvitfjell on 4 March was sufficient to clinch the season championship, although there were still seven races left in the season. The overall title represented Shiffrin's fifth, tying her with Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli, who also won five, and placed her behind only two Austrians: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who won six in the 1970s, and Marcel Hirscher, who won eight in a row in the 2010s.

Shiffrin's later victories in both a giant slalom and a slalom at Åre, Sweden (her sixth of the season in each discipline) enabled her to equal and then break Ingemar Stenmark's all-time overall record of 86 World Cup wins (with 87), as well as tying Vreni Schneider's all-time women's record of 20 giant slalom victories (to go along with her all-time record 53 slalom wins, plus 5 super-Gs, 5 parallels, 3 downhills, and 1 combined). And to top the season off a week later, Shiffrin won the giant slalom at finals, breaking Schneider's women's career victory record in that discipline with 21 and also breaking Lindsey Vonn's record for career World Cup podiums with 138 (in only her 249th World Cup start).

Indicative of the degree of specialization in the World Cup this season (despite the end of the COVID separation between the speed skiers and the technical skiers) is that Shiffrin was the only skier, male or female, to place in the top 25 in all four disciplines, and only four women and one man even scored points in all four disciplines: Shiffrin, Federica Brignone (#4), Michelle Gisin (#13), and Franziska Gritsch (#23) among the women, and Marco Schwarz (#7) among the men.

Finals

The last events of the season took place at the World Cup finals, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 through Sunday, 19 March 2023 in Soldeu, Andorra. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship in each discipline were eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that any skier who has scored at least 500 points in the overall classification was eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of her standing in that discipline for the season.

Standings

# Skier DH
9 races 		SG
8 races 		GS
10 races 		SL
11 races 		Total
Mikaela Shiffrin 221 240 800 945 2,206
2    Lara Gut-Behrami 272 413 532 0 1,217
3 Petra Vlhová 9 0 486 630 1,125
4 Federica Brignone 218 368 476 7 1,069
5 Sofia Goggia 740 176 0 0 916
6   Ragnhild Mowinckel 226 366 311 0 903
7    Wendy Holdener 0 74 129 655 858
8 Marta Bassino 34 200 515 0 749
9 Elena Curtoni 308 358 0 0 666
10 Sara Hector 0 0 393 243 636
11 Ilka Štuhec 551 51 0 0 602
12    Corinne Suter 309 259 3 0 571
13    Michelle Gisin 140 198 61 153 552
14 Cornelia Hütter 165 347 0 0 512
15 Paula Moltzan 0 0 209 297 506
16 Tessa Worley 0 172 328 0 500
17 Lena Dürr 0 0 0 493 493
18 Anna Swenn-Larsson 0 0 0 470 470
19 Mirjam Puchner 273 189 0 0 462
20   Thea Louise Stjernesund 0 0 236 170 406
21 Ana Bucik 0 0 146 259 405
22 Kira Weidle 250 151 0 0 401
23 Franziska Gritsch 3 96 120 172 391
24    Joana Hählen 220 166 0 0 386
25 Valérie Grenier 0 30 354 0 384
26   Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 246 106 0 0 352
27 Leona Popović 0 0 0 349 349
28    Jasmine Flury 185 157 0 0 342
29 Nina Ortlieb 229 107 0 0 336
30 Ramona Siebenhofer 111 149 64 0 324
31 Alice Robinson 34 72 207 0 313
32 Stephanie Venier 113 163 0 0 276
33   Mina Fürst Holtmann 0 0 136 127 263
34 Katharina Truppe 0 0 37 222 259
35 Breezy Johnson 222 27 0 0 249
36 Laura Gauché 150 97 0 0 247
37 Romane Miradoli 82 161 3 0 246
38 Hanna Aronsson Elfman 0 0 0 240 240
39 Katharina Liensberger 0 0 94 138 232
40 Emma Aicher 48 59 0 110 217
41 Zrinka Ljutić 0 0 18 190 208
42 Laura Pirovano 136 71 0 0 207
43 Maryna Gasienica-Daniel 0 1 199 0 200
44   Maria Therese Tviberg 0 0 94 103 197
45    Priska Nufer 139 44 0 0 183
46 Isabella Wright 154 22 0 0 176
47 Martina Dubovská 0 0 0 168 168
48 Tamara Tippler 89 71 0 0 160
Ricarda Haaser 0 22 138 0 160
50 Laurence St. Germain 0 0 0 158 158
51 Ali Nullmeyer 0 0 0 156 156
52    Camille Rast 0 0 48 97 145
53 Nicole Schmidhofer 15 120 0 0 135
54 Jessica Hilzinger 0 0 0 133 133
55 Christina Ager 94 29 0 0 123
56 Amelia Smart 0 0 0 117 117
57 Nicol Delago 105 9 0 0 114
58 Coralie Frasse Sombet 0 0 101 0 101
59    Elena Stoffel 0 0 0 95 95
60    Andrea Ellenberger 0 0 93 0 93
61 Neja Dvornik 0 0 22 64 86
62 Stephanie Brunner 0 0 84 0 84
63 Nastasia Noens 0 0 0 80 80
64 Julia Scheib 0 0 79 0 79
65 Roberta Melesi 0 40 38 0 78
66 Marie-Michèle Gagnon 20 57 0 0 77
67 Katharina Huber 0 0 8 66 74
68 Estelle Alphand 0 0 71 0 71
69 Melanie Meillard 0 0 0 70 70
70 Nina O'Brien 0 0 68 0 68
71    Nicole Good 0 0 0 67 67
72 Ariane Rädler 44 21 0 0 65
73    Stephanie Jenal 32 32 0 0 64
Andrea Filser 0 0 0 64 64
   Aline Danioth 0 0 0 64 64
76 Marta Rossetti 0 0 0 61 61
77 Elizabeth Kappaurer 0 0 60 0 60
78   Lara Colturi 0 0 53 6 59
79    Delia Durrer 48 7 0 0 55
80    Juliana Suter 27 24 0 0 51
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2023, after all 38 events and 4 cancellations

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