2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup

Alpine Ski World Cup 2009
Discipline	Men	Ladies
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
Combined	Carlo Janka	Anja Pärson
Nations Cup	Austria
Competition
Locations	18	16
Individual	36	34
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2009 World Cup Champions

Aksel Lund Svindal won his second overall title by two points over Benjamin Raich.

Lindsey Vonn won her second consecutive overall title.

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.

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.

Race calendar

Key

DH	Downhill
SG	Super-G
GS	Giant slalom
SL	Slalom
K	Combined (traditional)
SC	Super combined
T	nations team event

Men

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Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
26 October 2008	Sölden, Austria	GS	Daniel Albrecht	Didier Cuche	Ted Ligety
16 November 2008	Levi, Finland	SL	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Bode Miller	Mario Matt
29 November 2008	Lake Louise, Canada	DH	Peter Fill	Carlo Janka	Hans Olsson
30 November 2008		SG	Hermann Maier	John Kucera	Didier Cuche
4 December 2008	Beaver Creek, USA	SC	high snowfall; rescheduled to 12 December in Val-d'Isère[2]
5 December 2008		DH	Aksel Lund Svindal	Marco Büchel	Erik Guay
6 December 2008		SG	Aksel Lund Svindal	Hermann Maier	Michael Walchhofer
7 December 2008		GS	Benjamin Raich	Ted Ligety	Aksel Lund Svindal
12 December 2008[3]	Val-d'Isère, France	SC	Benjamin Raich	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Marcel Hirscher
13 December 2008		GS	Carlo Janka	Massimiliano Blardone	Gauthier de Tessières
14 December 2008		SL	high winds; rescheduled to 22 December in Alta Badia[4]
19 December 2008	Val Gardena, Italy	SG	Werner Heel	Didier Défago	Patrik Järbyn
20 December 2008		DH	Michael Walchhofer	Bode Miller	Manuel Osborne-Paradis
21 December 2008	Alta Badia, Italy	GS	Daniel Albrecht	Ivica Kostelić	Hannes Reichelt
22 December 2008		SL	Ivica Kostelić	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Benjamin Raich
28 December 2008	Bormio, Italy	DH	Christof Innerhofer	Klaus Kröll	Michael Walchhofer
2 January 2009	Moscow, Russia (unofficial promo event)	PSL	Felix Neureuther	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Bode Miller
6 January 2009	Zagreb, Croatia	SL	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Ivica Kostelić	Giuliano Razzoli
10 January 2009	Adelboden, Switzerland	GS	Benjamin Raich	Massimiliano Blardone	Kjetil Jansrud
11 January 2009		SL	Reinfried Herbst	Manfred Pranger	Felix Neureuther
16 January 2009	Wengen, Switzerland	SC	Carlo Janka	Peter Fill	Silvan Zurbriggen
17 January 2009		DH	Didier Défago	Bode Miller	Marco Sullivan
18 January 2009		SL	Manfred Pranger	Reinfried Herbst	Ivica Kostelić
23 January 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	SG	Klaus Kröll	Aksel Lund Svindal	Ambrosi Hoffmann
24 January 2009		DH	Didier Défago	Michael Walchhofer	Klaus Kröll
25 January 2009		SL	Julien Lizeroux	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Patrick Thaler
25 January 2009		K	Silvan Zurbriggen	Ivica Kostelić	Natko Zrnčić-Dim
27 January 2009	Schladming, Austria	SL	Reinfried Herbst	Manfred Pranger	Ivica Kostelić
31 January 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	DH	fog: mid-course; rescheduled to 6 March in Kvitfjell[5]
1 February 2009		SL	Manfred Mölgg	Giorgio Rocca	Reinfried Herbst
2–15 February 2009	Val-d'Isère, France	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
21 February 2009	Sestriere, Italy	GS	Didier Cuche	Stephan Görgl	Benjamin Raich
22 February 2009		SC	Romed Baumann	Julien Lizeroux	Carlo Janka Christof Innerhofer
28 February 2009	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	GS	Ted Ligety	Didier Cuche	Massimiliano Blardone
1 March 2009		SL	Julien Lizeroux	Giuliano Razzoli	Felix Neureuther
6 March 2009	Kvitfjell, Norway	DH	Manuel Osborne-Paradis	Michael Walchhofer	Aksel Lund Svindal
7 March 2009		DH	Klaus Kröll	Michael Walchhofer	Manuel Osborne-Paradis
8 March 2009		SG	cancelled due to snowstorm; not rescheduled[6]
11 March 2009	Åre, Sweden	DH	Aksel Lund Svindal	Didier Cuche	Hans Olsson
12 March 2009		SG	Werner Heel	Aksel Lund Svindal	Christof Innerhofer
13 March 2009		GS	Benjamin Raich	Ted Ligety	Didier Cuche
14 March 2009		SL	Mario Matt	Julien Lizeroux	Jean-Baptiste Grange

Ladies

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Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
25 October 2008	Sölden, Austria	GS	Kathrin Zettel	Tanja Poutiainen	Andrea Fischbacher
15 November 2008	Levi, Finland	SL	Lindsey Vonn	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	Maria Riesch
29 November 2008	Aspen, USA	GS	Tessa Worley	Tanja Poutiainen	Elisabeth Görgl
30 November 2008		SL	Šárka Záhrobská	Nicole Hosp	Tanja Poutiainen
5 December 2008	Lake Louise, Canada	DH	Lindsey Vonn	Nadia Fanchini	Maria Riesch
6 December 2008		DH	high snowfall; rescheduled to 23 January 2009 in Cortina d'Ampezzo[8]
7 December 2008		SG	Nadia Fanchini	Fabienne Suter Andrea Fischbacher
13 December 2008	La Molina, Spain	GS	Tanja Poutiainen	Manuela Mölgg	Nicole Hosp
14 December 2008		SL	Maria Riesch	Lindsey Vonn	Kathrin Zettel
19 December 2008	St. Moritz, Switzerland	SC	Anja Pärson	Nicole Hosp	Fabienne Suter
20 December 2008		SG	Lara Gut	Fabienne Suter	Nadia Fanchini
21 December 2008		DH	high winds; rescheduled to 27 February 2009 in Bansko[9]
28 December 2008	Semmering, Austria	GS	Kathrin Zettel	Manuela Mölgg	Lara Gut
29 December 2008		SL	Maria Riesch	Tanja Poutiainen	Lindsey Vonn
4 January 2009	Zagreb, Croatia	SL	Maria Riesch	Nicole Gius	Šárka Záhrobská
10 January 2009	Maribor, Slovenia	GS	Tina Maze	Denise Karbon	Kathrin Hölzl
11 January 2009		SL	Maria Riesch	Kathrin Zettel	Tanja Poutiainen
17 January 2009	Altenmarkt, Austria	SC	Lindsey Vonn	Kathrin Zettel	Anja Pärson
18 January 2009		DH	Dominique Gisin Anja Pärson		Lindsey Vonn
22 January 2009	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	SG	blizzard; rescheduled to 26 January
23 January 2009		DH	cancelled due to high snowfall; not rescheduled
24 January 2009		DH	Dominique Gisin	Lindsey Vonn	Anja Pärson
25 January 2009		GS	Kathrin Zettel	Michaela Kirchgasser	Elisabeth Görgl
26 January 2009		SG	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby	Anna Fenninger	Andrea Dettling
30 January 2009	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	SL	Lindsey Vonn	Maria Riesch	Maruša Ferk
31 January 2009		SG	fog: mid-course; rescheduled to 1 February[5]
1 February 2009		SG	Lindsey Vonn	Anja Pärson	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby
2–15 February 2009	Val-d'Isère, France	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
20 February 2009	Tarvisio, Italy	SC	Maria Riesch	Lindsey Vonn	Kathrin Zettel
21 February 2009		DH	Gina Stechert	Lindsey Vonn	Anja Pärson
22 February 2009		SG	Lindsey Vonn	Fabienne Suter	Tina Maze
27 February 2009	Bansko, Bulgaria	DH	Fabienne Suter	Andrea Fischbacher	Nadia Fanchini Lindsey Vonn
28 February 2009		DH	Andrea Fischbacher	Tina Maze	Fabienne Suter
1 March 2009		SG	Lindsey Vonn	Fabienne Suter	Tina Maze
6 March 2009	Ofterschwang, Germany	GS	Kathrin Zettel	Elisabeth Görgl	Tanja Poutiainen
7 March 2009		SL	Sandrine Aubert	Frida Hansdotter	Nicole Hosp
11 March 2009	Åre, Sweden	DH	Lindsey Vonn	Maria Riesch	Renate Götschl
12 March 2009		SG	Lindsey Vonn	Nadia Fanchini	Maria Riesch
13 March 2009		SL	Sandrine Aubert	Fanny Chmelar	Therese Borssén Šárka Záhrobská
14 March 2009		GS	Tina Maze	Tanja Poutiainen	Manuela Mölgg

Team event

Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third	Details
15 March 2009	Åre, Sweden	T	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

Final standings: Men

Names in bold clinched title.

Overall Pos. Points 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 1009 2. Benjamin Raich 1007 3.    Didier Cuche 919 4. Ivica Kostelić 891 5. Jean-Baptiste Grange 887 Final standings after 36 races

Downhill Pos. Points 1. Michael Walchhofer 470 2. Klaus Kröll 424 3.    Didier Défago 363 4. Aksel Lund Svindal 323 5. Manuel Osborne-Paradis 323 Final standings after 9 races.

Super-G Pos. Points 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 292 2. Werner Heel 256 3.    Didier Défago 242 4. Hermann Maier 231 5. Christof Innerhofer 168 Final standings after 5 races.

Giant slalom Pos. Points 1.    Didier Cuche 474 2. Benjamin Raich 462 3. Ted Ligety 421 4. Massimiliano Blardone 325 5. Aksel Lund Svindal 260 Final standings after 8 races.

Slalom Pos. Points 1. Jean-Baptiste Grange 541 2. Ivica Kostelić 454 3. Julien Lizeroux 419 4. Manfred Pranger 415 5. Reinfried Herbst 396 FInal standings after 10 races

Combined Pos. Points 1.    Carlo Janka 242 2.    Silvan Zurbriggen 231 3. Romed Baumann 169 4. Ivica Kostelić 166 5. Benjamin Raich 165 Final standings after 4 races.

Final standings: Ladies

Names in bold clinched titles.

Overall Pos. Points 1. Lindsey Vonn 1788 2. Maria Riesch 1404 3. Anja Pärson 1059 4. Kathrin Zettel 1046 5. Tanja Poutiainen 914 Final standings after 34 races

Downhill Pos. Points 1. Lindsey Vonn 502 2. Andrea Fischbacher 326 3. Maria Riesch 292 4.    Dominique Gisin 291 5. Nadia Fanchini 276 Final standings after 7 races.

Super-G Pos. Points 1. Lindsey Vonn 461 2. Nadia Fanchini 416 3.    Fabienne Suter 408 4. Anja Pärson 251 5.    Andrea Dettling 221 Final standings after 7 races.

Giant slalom Pos. Points 1. Tanja Poutiainen 508 2. Kathrin Zettel 501 3. Tina Maze 368 4. Elisabeth Görgl 318 5. Denise Karbon 282 Final standings after 8 races

Slalom Pos. Points 1. Maria Riesch 670 2. Šárka Záhrobská 459 3. Lindsey Vonn 440 4. Tanja Poutiainen 406 5. Sandrine Aubert 325 Final standings after 9 races.

Combined Pos. Points 1. Anja Pärson 205 2. Lindsey Vonn 180 3. Kathrin Zettel 162 4. Maria Riesch 150 5. Elisabeth Görgl 113 Final standings after 3 races

Final Nations Cup standings

Overall Pos. Points 1. Austria 10740 2.    Switzerland 7786 3. Italy 5974 4. France 4490 5. United States 4158 Final standings after 70 races

Men Pos. Points 1. Austria 5982 2.    Switzerland 4238 3. Italy 3426 4. France 2681 5. United States 1881 Final standings after 36 races.

Ladies Pos. Points 1. Austria 4758 2.    Switzerland 3548 3. Germany 2550 4. Italy 2548 5. Sweden 2441 Final standings after 34 races

References

1. FIS: Alpine World Cup 2009 men's schedule
2. "Super combined cancelled at Beaver Creek", 4 December 2008.
3. FIS Official Communication
4. "Val d'Isere: winds cancel men's slalom", 14 December 2008.
5. "Garmisch: Fog dooms Saturday races", 31 January 2009.
6. "Kvitfjell: Snow cancels Cup super G", 8 March 2009. Accessed 2009-03-08.
7. FIS: Alpine World Cup 2009 ladies' schedule
8. "Second Louise DH cancelled by snowfall", 6 December 2008.
9. "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