2012–13 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup explained
The 47th World Cup season began on 27 October 2012, in Sölden, Austria, and concluded on 17 March 2013, at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.[1] [2] The overall titles were won by Marcel Hirscher of Austria and Tina Maze of Slovenia.
A break in the schedule was for the biennial World Championships, held 4–17 February in Schladming, Austria. Changes for the 2013 season included the awarding of World Cup points for the slalom crystal globe for the limited field city events (parallel slalom),[3] not just in the overall standings. Also, a crystal globe trophy was no longer awarded for the combined event, as many organizers considered the event difficult to market,[4] but its results still counted in the overall rankings.[5]
Maze became the first Slovenian to win an overall World Cup title; she clinched it on 24 February after her eighth victory of the season, a super-combined race at Méribel, France.[6] Her victory in a downhill race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany on 2 March gave her wins in all five disciplines for the season, and she became the first racer in World Cup history to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.[7] The previous record of 2,000 points was held by Hermann Maier, set during the 2000 season.[8]
Maze broke various statistical records in this season, including the highest number of podiums in a season (24, record previously held by Maier (22) and by Hanni Wenzel and Pernilla Wiberg for ladies (18)), highest number of top 5 finishes (31, previously Maier and Wiberg (24)), highest number of points after first 10 races (677, previously Katja Seizinger, 643), largest percent of possible points won (69%, previously 61% by Wiberg), and the highest margin over the runner-up (1313, compared to 743 for Maier and 578 for Lindsey Vonn).[9] Maze finished on podium in all giant slalom events, previously achieved only by Vreni Schneider in 1989. She is also the first woman to remain at the top of the overall standings throughout the season - a feat previously achieved only by Bode Miller in 2005. In addition to the overall title, Maze won the super-G and giant slalom titles, finished at the top of the combined list by winning both races in the season, and finished second in the downhill and slalom. Those titles went respectively to two Americans, Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin. Vonn's season ended with a knee injury on 5 February at the World Championships, but she held on to win the downhill title by a single point after the final race was cancelled. Three days after turning 18, Shiffrin won the final slalom race at Lenzerheide on 16 March to overtake Maze and win that discipline's season title by 33 points.
The men's overall title wasn't decided until the World Cup finals at Lenzerheide. A runner-up finish in the giant slalom on 16 March gave Hirscher his second consecutive overall title, the first male to achieve this feat since Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003.[10] Hirscher also won the slalom title, while the downhill and super-G titles went to Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, the sixth and seventh discipline titles for the former two-time overall champion. The giant slalom title went to American Ted Ligety, who won six of the eight GS races for his fourth season title in that discipline.[11]
Calendar
Men
Ladies
Nation team event
Men's standings
Overall
Downhill
Super-G
Giant slalom
| Rank | after all 8 races | Points |
|---|
| 1 |  Ted Ligety | 720 |
| 2 | | 575 |
| 3 | | 326 |
| 4 | | 301 |
| 5 | | 236 | |
Slalom
Super combined
Ladies' standings
Overall
| Rank | after all 35 races | Points |
|---|
| 1 | Tina Maze | 2414 |
| 2 | | 1101 |
| 3 | | 1029 |
| 4 | | 867 |
| 5 | | 822 | |
Downhill
| Rank | after all 7 races | Points |
|---|
| 1 | Lindsey Vonn | 340 |
| 2 | | 339 |
| 3 | | 272 |
| 4 | | 244 |
| 5 | | 228 | |
Super-G
| Rank | after all 6 races | Points |
|---|
| 1 | Tina Maze | 420 |
| 2 | | 365 |
| 3 | | 304 |
| 4 | | 286 |
| 5 | | 251 | |
Giant slalom
| Rank | after all 9 races | Points |
|---|
| 1 | Tina Maze | 800 |
| 2 | | 480 |
| 3 | | 411 |
| 4 | | 383 |
| 5 | | 382 | |
Slalom
Super combined
| Rank | after all 2 races | Points |
|---|
| 1 | Tina Maze(no trophy) | 200 |
| 2 | | 160 |
| 3 | | 89 |
| 4 | | 77 |
| 4 | | 77 | |
Nations Cup
Overall
| Rank | | Points |
|---|
| 1 | | 11103 |
| 2 | | 5815 |
| 3 | | 5185 |
| 4 | | 5076 |
| 5 | | 4818 | |
- Final standings after 69 races.
Men
| Rank | | Points |
|---|
| 1 | | 6089 |
| 2 | | 3983 |
| 3 | | 3219 |
| 4 | | 2013 |
| 5 | | 1923 | |
- Final standings after 34 races.
Ladies
| Rank | | Points |
|---|
| 1 | | 5014 |
| 2 | | 3537 |
| 3 | | 2895 |
| 4 | | 2714 |
| 5 | | 2424 | |
- Final standings after 35 races.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13: Men. 29 May 2012. 6 August 2012. FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Fédération Internationale de Ski. https://web.archive.org/web/20120617005054/http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/1213men_mai12.pdf. 17 June 2012. dead.
- Web site: Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/13: Ladies. 29 May 2012. 6 August 2012. FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Fédération Internationale de Ski. https://web.archive.org/web/20120906222350/http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/1213ladies_mai12.pdf. 6 September 2012. dead.
- Web site: World Cup City Events Get Slalom Ranking Points. 26 October 2012. 11 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121211093132/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/world-cup-city-events-get-slalom-ranking-points. dead.
- Web site: Skiing plans to revive Alpine super-combined event. 5 October 2012. 18 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130318004253/https://sports.yahoo.com/news/skiing-plans-revive-alpine-super-194442125--ski.html. dead.
- Web site: FIS-Ski - Cup Standings . 20 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130321002444/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/disciplines/alpine-skiing/cupstandings.html?suchen=true&suchcompetitorid=&suchseason=2013§or=AL&suchgender=L&suchcup=WC&suchnation=&discipline=ALL&search=Search . 21 March 2013 . dead .
- News: Maze wins overall World Cup. Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo!. Reuters. 24 February 2013. 24 February 2013.
- News: Maze wins Garmisch downhill and breaks 2,000 points. Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 2 March 2013. 2 March 2013.
- New York Daily News, "Tina Maze is the Slovenian beauty who'll be Lindsey Vonn's biggest adversary at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014", Nathaniel Vinton, 16 March 2013.
- http://www.rtvslo.si/sport/zimski-sporti/vsi-rekordi-in-obrazi-tine-maze/304695 Vsi rekordi in obrazi Tine Maze :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija
- Web site: FIS-Ski - FIS World Cup . 23 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131017001648/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/disciplines/alpine-skiing/fisworldcup.html . 17 October 2013 . dead .
- Web site: FIS-Ski - Cup Standings . 20 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130317055355/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/disciplines/alpine-skiing/cupstandings.html . 17 March 2013 . dead .
- Web site: FIS: Alpine World Cup 2013 men's schedule . 24 September 2018 . .
- Web site: FIS: Alpine World Cup 2013 ladies' schedule . 24 September 2018 . .
- News: Audi FIS Ski World Cup 2012/13: Official Communications. 24 January 2013. 26 January 2013. FIS-Ski.com. International Ski Federation. https://web.archive.org/web/20130211015326/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/news/officialcommunications/alpineskiing.html?actu_id_947=6548&actu_page_947=1. 11 February 2013. dead.
Marcel Hirscher
Aksel Lund Svindal
Alexis Pinturault (no trophy)