Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's slalom explained

Event:	Women's slalom
Games:	2022 Winter
Venue:	Ice River, Yanqing District
Date:	9 February
Competitors:	88
Nations:	51
Win Value:	1:44.98
Gold:	Petra Vlhová
Goldnoc:	SVK
Silver:	Katharina Liensberger
Silvernoc:	AUT
Bronze:	Wendy Holdener
Bronzenoc:	SUI
Prev:	2018
Next:	2026

The women's slalom competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 9 February, " on Ice River" course at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre in Yanqing District.^[1] Petra Vlhová of Slovakia won the event. This was the first Olympic medal for Vlhová and the first Olympic medal in alpine skiing for Slovakia. Katharina Liensberger of Austria won silver, her first individual Olympic medal, and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland bronze.

Frida Hansdotter, the 2018 champion, retired from competitions. The silver medalist, Holdener, and the bronze medalist, Katharina Gallhuber, qualified for the Olympics. At the 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, seven slalom events were held before the Olympics. Petra Vlhová was leading the ranking, followed by Mikaela Shiffrin, Holdener, and Lena Dürr. Katharina Liensberger is the 2021 world champion, with Vlhová and Shiffrin being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively.

Qualification

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification.

Results

Results were as follows:^[2]

Rank	Bib	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Behind
	2	52.89	8	52.09	1	1:44.98
	5	52.83	7	52.23	2	1:45.06	+0.08
	6	52.65	5	52.45	4	1:45.10	+0.12
4	1	52.17	1	53.00	9	1:45.17	+0.19
5	17	52.64	4	52.56	5	1:45.20	+0.22
6	4	52.20	2	53.38	18	1:45.58	+0.60
7	16	53.35	9	52.40	3	1:45.75	+0.77
8	13	52.79	6	53.39	20	1:46.18	+1.20
9	3	53.44	11	52.87	6	1:46.31	+1.33
10	28	53.66	13	52.98	8	1:46.64	+1.66
11	14	53.73	14	52.94	7	1:46.67	+1.69
12	18	53.54	12	53.38	18	1:46.92	+1.94
13	11	53.90	16	53.13	14	1:47.03	+2.05
14	8	53.40	10	53.93	25	1:47.33	+2.35
15	25	54.22	19	53.26	16	1:47.48	+2.50
16	21	53.93	17	53.59	22	1:47.52	+2.54
17	9	54.51	22	53.06	10	1:47.57	+2.59
18	29	54.48	21	53.11	12	1:47.59	+2.61
19	22	54.68	24	53.18	15	1:47.86	+2.88
20	45	54.79	25	53.10	11	1:47.89	+2.91
21	24	53.84	15	54.12	28	1:47.96	+2.98
21	19	54.67	23	53.29	17	1:47.96	+2.98
23	10	55.31	30	53.11	12	1:48.42	+3.44
24	27	55.25	27	53.45	21	1:48.70	+3.72
25	36	55.03	26	53.88	23	1:48.91	+3.93
26	40	55.43	31	53.88	23	1:49.31	+4.33
27	26	55.26	28	54.06	26	1:49.32	+4.34
28	32	55.26	28	54.07	27	1:49.33	+4.35
29	46	55.46	32	54.32	29	1:49.78	+4.80
30	33	56.00	35	54.53	30	1:50.53	+5.55
31	48	55.97	34	54.71	31	1:50.68	+5.70
32	35	55.96	33	55.28	33	1:51.24	+6.26
33	43	56.39	39	55.11	32	1:51.50	+6.52
34	44	56.68	40	55.51	34	1:52.19	+7.21
35	47	56.09	36	56.64	37	1:52.73	+7.75
36	51	56.86	41	55.88	35	1:52.74	+7.76
37	41	56.33	37	56.64	37	1:52.97	+7.99
38	62	57.39	43	56.48	36	1:53.87	+8.89
39	54	57.31	42	56.80	39	1:54.11	+9.13
40	55	57.97	44	57.89	40	1:55.86	+10.88
41	61	58.21	45	59.13	41	1:57.34	+12.36
42	65		47		42	2:00.48	+15.50
43	59		51		43	2:02.88	+17.90
44	78		53		44	2:04.59	+19.61
45	71		50		45	2:04.65	+19.67
46	83		52		46	2:05.65	+20.67
47	80		54		47	2:11.95	+26.97
48	75		55		48	2:14.61	+29.63
49	82		56		49	2:18.92	+33.94
50	88		58		50	2:46.04
	12	52.29	3		rowspan=8 colspan=3
	20	54.19	18
	31	54.41	20
	50	56.38	38
	64	59.45	46
	68		48
	66		49
	81		57
	7		rowspan=31 colspan=5
	15
	23
	30
	34
	37
	38
	39
	42
	49
	52
	53
	56
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	58
	60
	63
	67
	68
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	72
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	77
	79
	84
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	87

Notes and References

Web site: Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9. PDF. New.inews.gtimg.com. 7 February 2022.
Book: Alpine Skiing Women's Slalom Results . 9 February 2022 . . 24 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220209102634/https://medias1.fis-ski.com/pdf/2022/AL/5199/2022AL5199RLR2.pdf . 9 February 2022 . live.