Английская Википедия:2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Skiing season
The women's overall competition in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of 43 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (10 races), super-G (SG) (11 races), giant slalom (GS) (11 races), and slalom (SL) (11 races).[1] The schedule initially was planned to consist of 45 events, but two downhills on the Matterhorn in mid-November 2023 were cancelled due to high winds and not rescheduled.[2]
As is the case every fourth year, there are no other major FIS events (world championships or Olympics) taking place during this season.[3] The fifth and sixth existing disciplines, parallel (PAR) and Alpine combined (AC), were eliminated from future World Cup schedules due to a lack of participation or interest in staging these events, and a new event that had been contemplated on the tentative schedule for the season, a team combined (which had been planned for 16 February 2024 at Crans Montana), was also eliminated and replaced with an additional downhill.[3] Thus, for the second straight season, only the four major disciplines will be contested.
Season summary
The first three races to be held during the season were all technical events (a giant slalom and two slaloms) and saw three former overall champions (and the top three finishers from 2023) emerge victorious: 2016 champion (and 2023 runner-up) Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland; 2021 champion (and 2023 third place) Petra Vlhová of Slovakia; and two-time defending champion (and five-time overall champion) Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States. The next two technical events (in the USA, a giant slalom and a slalom) were won by Gut-Behrami and Shiffrin (her record 90th win overall), enabling Shiffrin to open an 84-point lead for the season over Vlhová.[4] The following two races, both giant slaloms, which ended the North American portion of the season, were both won by 2020 champion Federica Brignone, moving her into fourth place overall -- which meant that the only four former women's overall champions still active occupied the top four places for the season.[5]
The speed events (downhill and super-G) did not begin until the eighth event of the season, with three races in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The first race was easily won by three-time defending downhill champion Sofia Goggia, who triumphed by almost a second over the field.[6] The win moved Goggia into sixth place in the season. However, Shiffrin beat Goggia in the next event, a downhill, and moved into a 195-point lead for the season over Brignone, who was third.[7]
The next two races were speed races at Val d'Isère; Shiffrin skipped the downhill, and Brignone won the super-G, which Shiffrin failed to finish, moving Brignone to within 63 points of Shiffrin's lead.[8]. However, the last race before Christmas was another slalom, and Shiffrin's runner-up finish moved her overall lead back over 140 points.[9]
Finals
The last events of the season are scheduled for the World Cup finals at Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. This season, for the first time, the finals will take place over two weekends -- 16-17 March 2024 for the technical events and 22-24 March 2024 for the speed events -- with the last race for the women (the downhill) taking place on Saturday, 23 March. Only the top 25 in each discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in each discipline are eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that any skier who has scored at least 500 points in the overall classification is eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of her standing in that discipline for the season. (After only 8 races, on 8 December, Shiffrin had reached the 500-point milestone for the season.)
Standings
See also
- 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings
- 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill
- 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G
- 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom
- 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom
- 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall
- World Cup scoring system
References
External links
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