2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

Alpine ski discipline year standings women's overall World Cup thumb|220px|center|Lara Gut of Switzerland, season champion 2016 women's World Cup Overall • downhill • super-g giant slalom • slalom• combined Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall 2016 The women's overall competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 40 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL) (which included one city event), and Alpine combined (AC) (which included one super-combined). A city event is a slalom conducted on a two-lane artificial ramp erected in a major city (for example, Stockholm this season, as well as Moscow, Munich, and Oslo); a super-combined (run at Val d'Isère in December 2015) consists of a downhill followed by a one-run slalom, as opposed to an Alpine combined (the other combined race currently contested), which consists of a Super-G followed by a one-run slalom. At the start of the season, the three still-active prior overall women's champions -- two-time defending champion Anna Fenninger of Austria (2014–15), Tina Maze of Slovenia (2013), and Lindsey Vonn of the USA (2008–10, 2012) -- were all inactive. Fenninger had to miss the entire season due to a serious knee injury in October.Associated Press Fenniger Out for Season after Crash in Austria https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/sports/skiing/fenninger-out-for-season-after-crash-in-austria.html?_r=0 The New York Times 22 October 2015 10 February 2023 Maze, an all-discipline skier who had been runner-up behind Fenninger in 2015, took a full-year hiatus before deciding whether to continue or permanently retire.Tina Maze temporarily suspends her career https://www.rtvslo.si/news-in-english/tina-maze-temporarily-suspends-her-career/364500 RTV 7 May 2015 10 February 2023 And Vonn was still recovering from, first, her season-ending injury in early 2015, and then a dog bite, and she didn't return until December 2015.Lindsey Vonn: Back on the slopes after suffering dogfight injury https://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/11/sport/lindsey-vonn-dogfight-hospital CNN.com 11 December 2015 10 February 2023 Then, in early December, just a handful of events into the season, Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA, overall fourth last season and slalom discipline champion for the last three seasons, suffered an injury during practice at Åre,Skiing-Olympic champ Shiffrin heads home with knee injury https://sports.yahoo.com/news/skiing-olympic-champ-shiffrin-heads-home-knee-injury-021202571--ski.html Staff Reuters 12 December 2015 10 February 2023 which caused her to miss the two months at the heart of the season; she did not return until mid-February (and promptly dominated the competition, although it was too late to contend for the season crown).Mikaela Shiffrin announces mid-February return to the World Cup https://www.skiracing.com/stories/mikaela-shiffrin-announces-mid-february-return-to-the-world-cup Staff Ski-Racing Magazine 8 February 2016 10 February 2023 With all of the injuries, Vonn, who herself missed more time due to injuries in late December, nevertheless had opened a narrow lead in the overall standings. When the World Cup went to Andorra in late February, Vonn had already won the Downhill discipline for the season and was leading in the Overall, Super-G and Combined disciplines for the season. However, on February 27, during the Super-G in Soldeu, Vonn crashed again near the end of her run while leading. She still raced the next day in the Combined event, although failing to podium, but on Monday a complete medical evaluation in Barcelona revealed multiple significant (not hairline, as she had thought) fractures in her knee from the Super-G crash, which ended her season at once.Lindsey Vonn ends season early after revised injury diagnosis https://www.skiracing.com/stories/lindsey-vonn-ends-season-early Gabbi Hall Ski-Racing Magazine 2 March 2016 10 February 2023 After Vonn's injury, 24-year-old Lara Gut of Switzerland, Vonn's closest pursuer, grabbed the overall lead and ended up as the season champion by almost 300 points.https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/sport/lara-gut-alpine-skiing-world-cup/index.html Matt Majendie Lara Gut: Family affair pushes Swiss skier to new heights 15 March 2016 10 February 2023 Appropriately, the World Cup season finals were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland for the first time since the World Cup season finals began in 1993, although five of the previous eleven finals were held in Switzerland (all at Lenzerheide). Standings #SkierDH9 racesSG8 racesGS9 racesSL11 racesAC3 racesTot. 25px SUI  Lara Gut394481472151601,5222USA Lindsey Vonn580420120151001,2353GER Viktoria Rebensburg264293590001,1474LIE Tina Weirather2444363211501,0165SWE Frida Hansdotter0020471109156 SUI  Wendy Holdener07515611988177AUT Cornelia Hütter38740000248118ITA Federica Brignone 927642527507879NOR Nina Løseth00292373066510USA Mikaela Shiffrin0189850032648 SUI  Fabienne Suter46318500064812AUT Eva-Maria Brem0059255064713SVK Veronika Velez-Zuzulová000626062614ITA Nadia Fanchini3001711470061815AUT Michaela Kirchgasser0417928015361616CAN Marie-Michèle Gagnon0817427114559817SWE Kajsa Kling2182156304454018USA Laurenne Ross224250005252619SWE Maria Pietilä-Holmner00204292049620CZE Šárka Strachová000493049321ITA Johanna Schnarf160216009046622CAN Larisa Yurkiw4075800046523ITA Elena Curtoni1881538203245524SVK Petra Vlhová0018389040725ITA Francesca Marsaglia10214588065400 #ffcf40 Leader #c0c0c0 2nd place #cc9966 3rd place Updated at 19 March 2016, after all eventshttps://www.fis-ski.com/DB/alpine-skiing/cup-standings.html?sectorcode=AL&seasoncode=2016&cupcode=WC&disciplinecode=ALL&gendercode=W&nationcode= Official FIS 2016 women's season standings fis-ski.com 31 January 2023 See also 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's combined 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall References External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website Women's overall Category:FIS Alpine Ski World Cup overall titles