1989 Alpine Skiing World Cup

The 23rd World Cup season began in November 1988 in Austria and concluded in March 1989 in Japan. The overall champions were Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg and Vreni Schneider of Switzerland.

The break in the schedule in early February was for the 1989 World Championships, held in Vail, Colorado, US

Men

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Super G	Schladming	Austria	November 27, 1988
2	Giant	Val Thorens	France	November 29, 1988
3	Slalom	Sestriere	Italy	December 6, 1988
4	Downhill	Val Gardena	Italy	December 9, 1988
5	Downhill	Val Gardena	Italy	December 10, 1988
6	Slalom	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 11, 1988
7	Slalom	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	December 17, 1988
8	Slalom	St. Anton	Austria	December 21, 1988
9	Downhill	St. Anton	Austria	December 22, 1988
10	Combined	Race 8 and 9
11	Downhill	Laax	Switzerland	January 6, 1989
12	Super G	Laax	Switzerland	January 8, 1989
13	Giant	Kirchberg in Tirol	Austria	January 10, 1989
14	Downhill	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 13, 1989
15	Downhill	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 14, 1989
16	Slalom	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 15, 1989
17	Combined	Race 14 (or 15) and 16
18	Giant	Adelboden	Switzerland	January 17, 1989
19	Downhill	Wengen	Switzerland	January 20, 1989
20	Downhill	Wengen	Switzerland	January 21, 1989
21	Slalom	Wengen	Switzerland	January 22, 1989
22	Combined	Race 19 (or 20) and 21
23	Downhill	Aspen, Colorado	United States	February 17, 1989
24	Super G	Aspen, Colorado	United States	February 18, 1989
25	Giant	Aspen, Colorado	United States	February 19, 1989
26	Downhill	Whistler Mountain, BC	Canada	February 25, 1989
27	Super G	Whistler Mountain, BC	Canada	February 26, 1989
28	Giant	Furano	Japan	March 3, 1989
29	Slalom	Furano	Japan	March 5, 1989
30	Giant	Shiga Kogen	Japan	March 9, 1989
31	Slalom	Shiga Kogen	Japan	March 10, 1989
32	Parallel slalom	Shiga Kogen	Japan	March 11, 1989

Men's overall results

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In Men's Overall World Cup 1988/89 all results count. The parallel slalom did not count for the Overall World Cup. Marc Girardelli won his third Overall World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined
1	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	407	139	46	66	106	50
2	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	309	94	62	82	26	45
3	Alberto Tomba	Italy	189	0	37	40	112	0
4	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Norway	188	0	0	82	106	0
5	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	166	67	43	9	0	47
6	Rudolf Nierlich	Austria	144	0	0	79	65	0
7	Armin Bittner	West Germany	127	0	0	10	117	0
8	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	126	112	14	0	0	0
9	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	114	102	2	0	0	10
10	Hubert Strolz	Austria	112	0	18	46	33	15
11	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Sweden	102	2	51	38	0	11
12	Peter Müller	Switzerland	100	79	6	0	0	15
13	Michael Mair	Italy	89	74	0	0	0	15
	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	89	89	0	0	0	0
15	Martin Hangl	Switzerland	87	0	47	40	0	0
16	Franck Piccard	France	82	21	49	6	0	6
17	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	79	0	0	67	12	0
18	Leonhard Stock	Austria	76	57	19	0	0	0
19	Helmut Mayer	Austria	74	0	35	39	0	0
20	Paul Accola	Switzerland	72	0	0	0	28	44

Men's Downhill results

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In Men's Downhill World Cup 1988/89 all results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	4	5	9	11	14	15	19	20	23	26
1	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	139	-	-	12	7	25	20	25	25	20	5
2	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	112	4	25	25	15	-	6	4	10	11	12
3	Daniel Mahrer	Switzerland	102	-	-	3	-	9	25	15	15	15	20
4	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	94	12	-	20	6	-	12	8	20	1	15
5	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	89	7	-	10	20	10	15	11	-	9	7
6	Peter Müller	Switzerland	79	25	15	-	-	12	11	-	-	6	10
7	Michael Mair	Italy	74	3	6	11	12	20	8	7	4	3	-
8	Rob Boyd	Canada	68	15	-	-	-	-	10	9	9	-	25
9	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	67	9	-	9	10	-	-	20	11	8	-
10	Karl Alpiger	Switzerland	65	-	10	-	1	11	7	5	5	25	1
11	Leonhard Stock	Austria	57	5	-	15	25	5	3	-	-	4	-

Men's Super G results

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In Men's Super G World Cup 1988/89 all four results count. Pirmin Zurbriggen won his third Super G World Cup in a row. All events were won by a different racer.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	12	24	27
1	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	62	25	12	10	15
2	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Sweden	51	-	6	25	20
3	Franck Piccard	France	49	20	9	11	9
4	Martin Hangl	Switzerland	47	3	25	9	10
5	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	46	7	2	12	25
6	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	43	11	-	20	12
7	Alberto Tomba	Italy	37	12	11	7	7
8	Helmut Mayer	Austria	35	-	15	15	5
9	Hans Enn	Austria	26	6	20	-	-
10	Luc Alphand	France	25	9	-	5	11

Men's Giant Slalom results

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In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1988/89 all results count. Pirmin Zurbriggen won his third Giant Slalom World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	2	13	18	25	28	30
1	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Norway	82	-	10	20	7	20	25
	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	82	25	20	11	-	15	11
3	Rudolf Nierlich	Austria	79	20	25	-	-	25	9
4	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	67	9	2	10	25	9	12
5	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	66	3	11	25	20	7	-
6	Hubert Strolz	Austria	46	8	9	7	-	2	20
7	Alberto Tomba	Italy	40	-	15	15	10	-	-
	Martin Hangl	Switzerland	40	-	8	9	11	6	6
9	Helmut Mayer	Austria	39	12	5	12	-	10	-
10	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Sweden	38	-	4	-	15	12	7

Men's Slalom results

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In Men's Slalom World Cup 1988/89 all results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	3	6	7	8	16	21	29	31
1	Armin Bittner	West Germany	117	12	12	20	25	25	-	8	15
2	Alberto Tomba	Italy	112	-	25	15	-	20	20	20	12
3	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	106	25	20	25	-	12	12	12	-
	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Norway	106	7	8	12	12	11	11	25	20
5	Jonas Nilsson	Sweden	70	20	-	7	8	-	10	15	10
6	Rudolf Nierlich	Austria	65	-	-	-	-	15	25	-	25
7	Michael Tritscher	Austria	54	8	15	4	9	-	5	7	6
8	Bernhard Gstrein	Austria	51	11	11	-	20	-	-	9	-
9	Felix McGrath	United States	43	9	-	8	11	-	-	11	4
10	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	42	-	10	1	-	10	9	5	7

Men's combined results

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In Men's Combined World Cup 1988/89 all three results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	10	17	22
1	Marc Girardelli	Luxembourg	50	-	25	25
2	Markus Wasmeier	West Germany	47	20	12	15
3	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Switzerland	45	25	-	20
4	Paul Accola	Switzerland	44	12	20	12
5	Gustav Oehrli	Switzerland	22	3	8	11
6	Atle Skårdal	Norway	20	7	5	8
7	Jean-Luc Crétier	France	19	9	10	-
8	Hubert Strolz	Austria	15	15	-	-
	Michael Mair	Italy	15	-	15	-
	Peter Müller	Switzerland	15	4	11	-

Men's Team results

All points were shown. But without parallel slalom, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slaloms were only show-events.)

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Austria	1037	404	132	195	270	36	21	7
2	Switzerland	928	447	128	166	43	144	15	7
3	West Germany	433	131	58	29	143	72	15	2
4	Italy	414	105	53	67	164	25	16	1
5	Luxembourg	407	139	46	66	106	50	1	9
6	Sweden	294	2	54	137	84	17	7	2
7	Norway	256	48	0	82	106	20	3	2
8	France	170	21	74	23	18	34	9	0
9	Canada	85	81	1	0	0	3	4	1
10	Yugoslavia	80	0	8	50	22	0	5	0
11	United States	74	0	0	13	55	6	5	0
12	Liechtenstein	42	0	0	0	42	0	1	0
13	Japan	38	0	0	0	38	0	1	0
14	Czechoslovakia	19	0	0	0	0	19	2	0
15	United Kingdom	5	5	0	0	0	0	1	0
16	Mexico	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0

Women

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Super G	Schladming	Austria	November 26, 1988
2	Giant	Les Menuires	France	November 28, 1988
3	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	December 2, 1988
4	Downhill	Altenmarkt	Austria	December 15, 1988
5	Slalom	Altenmarkt	Austria	December 16, 1988
6	Combined	Race 4 and 5
7	Giant	Val Zoldana	Italy	December 18, 1988
8	Slalom	Courmayeur	Italy	December 20, 1988
9	Slalom	Maribor	Yugoslavia	January 3, 1989
10	Giant	Schwarzenberg	Austria	January 6, 1989
11	Giant	Schwarzenberg	Austria	January 7, 1989
12	Slalom	Mellau	Austria	January 8, 1989
13	Downhill	Grindelwald	Switzerland	January 12, 1989
14	Downhill	Grindelwald	Switzerland	January 13, 1989
15	Super G	Grindelwald	Switzerland	January 14, 1989
16	Slalom	Grindelwald	Switzerland	January 15, 1989
17	Combined	Race 13 (or 14) and 16
18	Downhill	Tignes	France	January 19, 1989
19	Super G	Tignes	France	January 20, 1989
20	Giant	Tignes	France	January 21, 1989
21	Downhill	Lake Louise, AB	Canada	February 18, 1989
22	Downhill	Lake Louise, AB	Canada	February 19, 1989
23	Downhill	Steamboat Springs, Colorado	United States	February 24, 1989
24	Super G	Steamboat Springs, Colorado	United States	February 25, 1989
25	Slalom	Furano	Japan	March 3, 1989
26	Giant	Furano	Japan	March 4, 1989
27	Giant	Shiga Kogen	Japan	March 8, 1989
28	Slalom	Shiga Kogen	Japan	March 10, 1989
29	Parallel slalom	Shiga Kogen	Japan	March 11, 1989

Women's overall results

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In Women's Overall World Cup 1988/89 all results count. The parallel slalom did not count for the Overall World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined
1	Vreni Schneider	Switzerland	376	0	11	165	175	25
2	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	261	142	27	87	0	5
3	Michela Figini	Switzerland	248	176	29	18	0	25
4	Carole Merle	France	206	67	75	55	0	9
5	Anita Wachter	Austria	157	0	56	59	42	0
6	Mateja Svet	Yugoslavia	154	0	0	106	40	8
7	Ulrike Maier	Austria	150	0	33	60	26	31
8	Michaela Gerg	West Germany	148	91	23	34	0	0
9	Karen Percy	Canada	127	53	13	24	17	20
10	Sigrid Wolf	Austria	119	28	71	20	0	0
11	Tamara McKinney	United States	116	0	0	27	77	12
12	Heidi Zurbriggen	Switzerland	86	41	18	12	0	15
13	Monika Maierhofer	Austria	85	0	0	0	85	0
14	Regine Mösenlechner	West Germany	84	45	27	12	0	0
15	Veronika Wallinger	Austria	78	65	13	0	0	0
16	Ingrid Salvenmoser	Austria	66	0	0	31	35	0
17	Veronika Šarec	Yugoslavia	62	0	0	1	61	0
18	Blanca Fernández Ochoa	Spain	61	0	4	17	40	0
19	Brigitte Oertli	Switzerland	60	9	8	0	7	36
20	Barbara Sadleder	Austria	58	41	9	0	0	8

Women's Downhill results

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In Women's Downhill World Cup 1988/89 all results count. Michela Figini won her fourth Downhill World Cup (the last three in a row). She was able to win six races and only her teammate Maria Walliser was able to take two wins. The second consecutive season that saw only wins by Swiss athletes!

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	3	4	13	14	18	21	22	23
1	Michela Figini	Switzerland	176	25	15	25	25	11	25	25	25
2	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	142	5	25	12	15	25	20	20	20
3	Michaela Gerg	West Germany	91	15	4	6	9	15	15	15	12
4	Carole Merle	France	67	12	-	15	20	20	-	-	-
5	Veronika Wallinger	Austria	65	11	20	9	7	-	7	-	11
6	Chantal Bournissen	Switzerland	55	7	-	-	-	9	12	12	15
7	Karen Percy	Canada	53	10	-	5	-	6	10	12	10
8	Regine Mösenlechner	West Germany	45	20	-	4	11	10	-	-	-
9	Heidi Zurbriggen	Switzerland	41	9	-	3	6	12	11	-	-
	Barbara Sadleder	Austria	41	7	12	10	3	-	-	3	6

Women's Super G results

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In Women's Super G World Cup 1988/89 all four results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	15	19	24
1	Carole Merle	France	75	25	25	25	-
2	Sigrid Wolf	Austria	71	11	20	15	25
3	Anita Wachter	Austria	56	15	1	20	20
4	Ulrike Maier	Austria	33	20	12	1	-
5	Michela Figini	Switzerland	29	9	5	-	15
6	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	27	-	15	12	-
	Regine Mösenlechner	West Germany	27	15	3	9	-
8	Michaela Gerg	West Germany	23	8	8	7	-
9	Catherine Quittet	France	22	-	-	11	11
10	Heidi Zurbriggen	Switzerland	18	-	2	6	10
	Cathy Chedal	France	18	4	-	10	4

Women's Giant Slalom results

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In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1988/89 all results count. Vreni Schneider won her third Giant Slalom World Cup by winning 6 races out of 7. Only her teammate Maria Walliser was able to win a single race.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	2	7	10	11	20	26	27
1	Vreni Schneider	Switzerland	165	25	25	25	25	25	15	25
2	Mateja Svet	Yugoslavia	106	10	20	12	12	12	20	20
3	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	87	-	11	15	9	15	25	12
4	Ulrike Maier	Austria	60	15	-	20	20	5	-	-
5	Anita Wachter	Austria	59	20	15	-	-	10	6	8
6	Carole Merle	France	55	-	10	10	15	20	-	-
7	Catherine Quittet	France	35	-	1	9	3	-	12	10
8	Michaela Gerg	West Germany	34	8	-	-	8	7	-	11
9	Traudl Hächer	West Germany	32	9	-	8	6	2	7	-
10	Ingrid Salvenmoser	Austria	31	3	8	4	5	-	10	1

Women's Slalom results

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In Women's Slalom World Cup 1988/89 all results count. Vreni Schneider won all races and won the cup with maximum points. Up to now this was the last time an athlete was able to win a cup with maximum points. Together with the win in the first race next season 1989/90 Vreni Schneider was able to win nine world cup slalom races in a row!

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	5	8	9	12	16	25	28
1	Vreni Schneider	Switzerland	175	25	25	25	25	25	25	25
2	Monika Maierhofer	Austria	85	12	-	20	11	15	7	20
3	Tamara McKinney	United States	77	15	-	15	-	20	15	12
4	Veronika Šarec	Yugoslavia	61	2	-	-	12	12	20	15
5	Christine von Grünigen	Switzerland	48	-	10	11	10	8	9	-
6	Patricia Chauvet	France	45	11	-	-	15	9	10	-
7	Anita Wachter	Austria	42	-	12	-	8	-	11	11
8	Blanca Fernández Ochoa	Spain	40	9	20	-	-	11	-	-
	Mateja Svet	Yugoslavia	40	10	-	-	20	10	-	-
10	Katjuša Pušnik	Yugoslavia	39	20	-	10	-	7	-	2

Women's combined results

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In Women's Combined World Cup 1988/89 both results count. Brigitte Oertli won her fourth Combined World Cup (the last three in a row).

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	6	17
1	Brigitte Oertli	Switzerland	36	11	25
2	Ulrike Maier	Austria	31	20	11
3	Vreni Schneider	Switzerland	25	25	-
	Michela Figini	Switzerland	25	10	15
5	Karen Percy	Canada	20	-	20
6	Petra Kronberger	Austria	19	15	4
7	Heidi Zurbriggen	Switzerland	15	5	10
8	Tamara McKinney	United States	12	12	-
	Florence Masnada	France	12	-	12
10	Ulrike Stanggassinger	West Germany	9	9	-
	Carole Merle	France	9	-	9
	Lenka Kebrlová	Czechoslovakia	9	7	2

Women's Team results

All points were shown. But without parallel slalom, because result ? (Also possible, that the parallel slaloms were only show-events.) Only three teams were able to win races.

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Super G	Giant	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Switzerland	1297	493	110	314	265	115	18	24
2	Austria	930	219	212	204	236	59	17	1
3	France	439	88	123	115	91	22	11	3
4	West Germany	401	180	71	119	16	15	9	0
5	Yugoslavia	255	0	0	107	140	8	3	0
6	Canada	191	97	22	24	22	26	6	0
7	United States	143	12	2	30	87	12	7	0
8	Sweden	72	0	0	18	54	0	3	0
9	Spain	61	0	4	17	40	0	1	0
10	Liechtenstein	35	0	0	22	13	0	1	0
11	Soviet Union	33	21	12	0	0	0	2	0
12	Czechoslovakia	20	0	0	0	1	19	3	0
13	United Kingdom	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	0

Nationscup

Place	Country	Total Points	Men	Women
1	Switzerland	2225	928	1297
2	Austria	1967	1037	930
3	West Germany	834	433	401
4	France	609	170	439
5	Italy	414	414	0
6	Luxembourg	407	407	0
7	Sweden	366	294	72
8	Yugoslavia	335	80	255
9	Canada	276	85	191
10	Norway	256	256	0
11	United States	217	74	143
12	Liechtenstein	77	42	35
13	Spain	61	0	61
14	Czechoslovakia	39	19	20
15	Japan	38	38	0
16	Soviet Union	33	0	33
17	United Kingdom	8	5	3
18	Mexico	2	2	0

External links

• FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1989