Alpine World Ski Championships 2015

43rd Alpine World Ski Championships 2015
Place:	Vail / Beaver Creek , United States
Start:	February 2, 2015
The End:	February 15, 2015
Nations:	68
Athletes:	~ 700
Competitions:	11
winner
	Men's	Ladies
Departure	Patrick Küng	Tina Maze
Super G	Hannes Reichelt	Anna Fenninger
Giant slalom	Ted Ligety	Anna Fenninger
slalom	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Mikaela Shiffrin
Alpine combination	Marcel Hirscher	Tina Maze
Team competition	Austria
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The 43rd Alpine World Ski Championships took place in Vail / Beaver Creek from February 2 to 15, 2015 , with the individual competitions taking place in Beaver Creek and the team competition in Vail. After seven title fights in a row in Europe , the world championships were held in America for the first time since 1999 . Vail had also been the venue in 1989 and 1999 .

Applicants

In addition to the two ski resorts in the US state of Colorado , St. Moritz (Switzerland) and Cortina d'Ampezzo were also available as venues. All three locations had already applied for the 2013 World Cup , but were inferior to Schladming's candidacy . At the FIS Congress on June 3, 2010 in Antalya , Turkey , the US application prevailed with 8 out of 15 possible votes in the first ballot. Cortina d'Ampezzo received 4 votes and St. Moritz received 3 votes.

Slopes

Adjacent to the existing Birds of Prey ski slope , on which the men's races took place as at the 1999 World Cup, another called Raptor was added. The women's competitions were held on this downhill slope, which was completed in 2013. For the new runway, the time measurement building was relocated from the west to the east side of the finish area, the Red Tail section was redesigned, and the Talons restaurant was rebuilt behind the finish area. The restaurant building also housed the central press center during the 2015 World Cup.

Attendees

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Shortly before the start of the world championships, around 700 athletes from 68 different countries were registered; they fought for a total of 33 medals.

Albania  Andorra  Argentina  Armenia  Australia  Belgium  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Brazil  Bulgaria  Cayman Islands  Chile  People's Republic of China  Denmark  Germany  Estonia  Finland  France  Georgia  Greece  Haiti  India  Iran  Ireland

Iceland  Israel  Italy  Jamaica  Japan  Canada  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Croatia  Latvia  Lebanon  Liechtenstein  Lithuania  Luxembourg  Malta  North Macedonia  Mexico  Monaco  Montenegro  New Zealand  Netherlands  Norway  Austria

East Timor  Peru  Poland  Romania  Russia  San Marino  Sweden  Switzerland  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia  Spain  South Korea  South Africa  Taiwan  Czech Republic  Ukraine  Hungary  Uzbekistan  United Kingdom  United States  Cyprus

Medal table

Nations

Medal table (after all 11 competitions)
space	nation
01	Austria	5	3	1	9
02	United States	2	1	2	5
03	Slovenia	2	1	-	3
04th	France	1	-	2	3
0	Switzerland	1	-	2	3
06th	Germany	-	2	1	3
07th	Canada	-	2	-	2
08th	Sweden	-	1	2	3
09	Norway	-	1	-	1
10	Czech Republic	-	-	1	1
Total		11	11	11	33

athlete

Preliminary remark: Medals in the team competition are also counted, which is why the total number of medals differs from that in the nation ranking.

Medal table (after all 11 competitions)
space	Sportswoman
1	Anna Fenninger	2	1	0	3
	Marcel Hirscher	2	1	0	3
	Tina Maze	2	1	0	3
4th	Nicole Hosp	1	1	0	2
5	Michaela Kirchgasser	1	0	1	2
	Ted Ligety	1	0	1	2
7th	Eva-Maria Brem	1	0	0	1
	Jean-Baptiste Grange	1	0	0	1
	Patrick Küng	1	0	0	1
	Christoph Nösig	1	0	0	1
	Hannes Reichelt	1	0	0	1
	Philipp Schörghofer	1	0	0	1
	Mikaela Shiffrin	1	0	0	1
14th	Phil Brown	0	1	0	1
	Dustin Cook	0	1	0	1
	Candace Crawford	0	1	0	1
	Fritz Dopfer	0	1	0	1
	Travis Ganong	0	1	0	1
	Frida Hansdotter	0	1	0	1
	Kjetil Jansrud	0	1	0	1
	Erin Mielzynski	0	1	0	1
	Trevor Philp	0	1	0	1
	Marie-Pier Préfontaine	0	1	0	1
	Erik Read	0	1	0	1
	Viktoria Rebensburg	0	1	0	1
26th	Beat Feuz	0	0	1	1
	Lara Gut	0	0	1	1
	Mattias Hargin	0	0	1	1
	Sara Hector	0	0	1	1
	Markus Larsson	0	0	1	1
	Jessica Lindell-Vicarby	0	0	1	1
	André Myhrer	0	0	1	1
	Felix Neureuther	0	0	1	1
	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	0	0	1	1
	Alexis Pinturault	0	0	1	1
	Šárka Strachová	0	0	1	1
	Anna Swenn-Larsson	0	0	1	1
	Adrien Théaux	0	0	1	1
	Lindsey Vonn	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	16	48

program

date	Time ( MST )	Men's	Ladies
Monday February 2nd	10:30		Downhill training
	19:00	Opening ceremony
Tuesday February 3rd	11:00		Super G
	13:30	Downhill training
Wednesday February 4th	11:00	(Super-G) 1
	13:30		(Downhill - Training) 2
Thursday 5th February	11:00	(Downhill - Training) Super-G 1
	13:30		Downhill training
Friday February 6th	11:00		Departure
	13:30	Downhill training
Saturday February 7th	11:00	Departure
	13:30		Alpine combination training
Sunday February 8th	10: 00/14: 15	Alpine combination
	12:00		Alpine combination training
Monday February 9th	10: 00/14: 15		Alpine combination
Tuesday February 10th	14:15	Team competition
Wednesday February 11th	Rest and replacement day
Thursday February 12th	10:15/14:15	Giant Slalom - Qualification
	10:15/14:15		Giant slalom
Friday February 13th	10:15/14:15	Giant slalom
Saturday February 14th	10:15/14:15		slalom
	10:15/14:15	Slalom qualification
Sunday February 15th	10:15/14:30	slalom
	15:45	Closing ceremony

¹The men's Super-G was originally scheduled for February 4th. Due to snowfall and fog, the races were held a day later instead of the 2nd downhill training.

²The second women's downhill training was originally scheduled for February 4th. It was not carried out due to snowfall and fog.

Worth mentioning

• The Italian team remained without a medal and there were parallels to the World Championships in 1989 and 1999, when the "Squadra Azzura" had to leave without a medal.
• The award ceremonies were accompanied by the performance of the national anthems by the “Colorado Children's Choir” at Solaris Plaza in Vail. The Austrian hymn was performed according to the version that had been customary up to now, only the "great sons" were sung about, but not the "great daughters" that have recently been added to the text.
• The venue turned out to be an expensive place. The day lift pass for an adult was US $ 145. A night in the hotel "Charter", where the ÖSV stars stayed, was available from 315 dollars (279.38 euros). In the press center at the foot of the world championship slopes, a cheeseburger, fries and a drink were asked for $ 35 (EUR 31.04).

Results gentlemen

Departure

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI	Patrick Küng	1: 43.18 min
2	United States	Travis Ganong	1: 43.42 min
3	SUI	Beat Feuz	1: 43.49 min
4th	United States	Steven Nyman	1: 43.52 min
5	FRA	Guillermo Fayed	1: 43.57 min
6th	NOR	Aksel Lund Svindal	1: 43.63 min
7th	CZE	Ondřej Bank	1: 43.74 min
8th	FRA	Adrien Théaux	1: 43.81 min
9	United States	Andrew Weibrecht	1: 43.85 min
	SUI	Carlo Janka	1: 43.85 min
11	SUI	Didier Defago	1: 43.89 min
12	AUT	Matthias Mayer	1: 44.10 min
13	AUT	Hannes Reichelt	1: 44.12 min
...
17th	GER	Andreas Sander	1: 44.31 min
19th	AUT	Max Franz	1: 44.49 min
22nd	GER	Josef Ferstl	1: 44.86 min
23	ITA	Dominik Paris	1: 45.12 min
24	ITA	Christof Innerhofer	1: 45.30 min
27	GER	Klaus Brandner	1: 45.62 min
29	AUT	Georg Streitberger	1: 45.68 min
32	ITA	Werner Heel	1: 45.88 min

Date : February 7, 2015

Defending champion: Aksel Lund Svindal

Route: Birds of Prey / Golden Eagle
starting height: 3483 m, target height: 2730 m, difference in altitude: 753 m
length: 2623 m, max. Incline: 63%
Course setter: Hannes Trinkl (FIS)
46 riders at the start, 44 in the classification
Eliminated: Klemen Kosi (SLO), Istok Rodeš (CRO)

Defending champion Svindal came to the World Championship after an injury he had suffered before the start of the season without having competed in a race. He delivered a remarkably strong performance under this aspect.
In the short term it looked like a double success for Switzerland (No. 19 Küng before No. 15 Feuz) before this duo broke up with No. 22 Ganong and, on the other hand, pushed his teammate Nyman (No. 10) off the podium. - The best runner only on rank 12 was the worst downhill result of the ÖSV men at world championships.
The course setting and the slope itself proved to be particularly difficult this time, small mistakes were immediately "punished" with time losses. The number one favorite was the three-time winner of the season Jansrud; the other three winners were Nyman in Val Gardena, Ganong in Santa Caterina and Reichelt on the Lauberhorn. Although Küng had also recently finished fourth on the Lauberhorn and Feuz even second, not necessarily that much had spoken for them. Feuz was also aware of his recurring health problems, so he did not even start a week later in Kitzbühel after finishing 2nd. Küng's performance curve was too unstable. But on that day, the two found the best mix of all the components that was required for this route. While the two US runners made an excellent run over the entire route, Jansrud (No. 18) and Reichelt (No. 21) made inexplicable mistakes. Various runners who were not among the favorites at all, such as Ondřej Bank (No. 29) or Weibrecht (No. 35 - he was even in first place in the penultimate interim time and still in second place in the last!) Placed well. The Italian team also experienced a serious disappointment with 23rd place for Dominik Paris (deficit 1.94 s). Not much was to be expected from the small German team. A possible aspirant to be able to follow in the footsteps of Max Rauffer or Florian Eckert , Stephan Keppler , had not found his form after his serious fall in Wengen and quit his racing career after the end of the season last year.

Super G

Hannes Reichelt

space	country	athlete	time
1	AUT	Hannes Reichelt	1: 15.68 min
2	CAN	Dustin Cook	1: 15.79 min
3	FRA	Adrien Théaux	1: 15.92 min
4th	NOR	Kjetil Jansrud	1: 15.95 min
	AUT	Matthias Mayer	1: 15.95 min
6th	NOR	Aksel Lund Svindal	1: 16.05 min
7th	SUI	Didier Defago	1: 16.07 min
8th	AUT	Georg Streitberger	1: 16.22 min
9	United States	Ted Ligety	1: 16.38 min
10	SLO	Klemen Kosi	1: 16.39 min
...
12	SUI	Carlo Janka	1: 16.50 min
14th	ITA	Dominik Paris	1: 16.57 min
16	SUI	Patrick Küng	1: 16.69 min
17th	SUI	Mauro Caviezel	1: 16.84 min
18th	ITA	Christof Innerhofer	1: 17.02 min
23	GER	Andreas Sander	1: 17.37 min
24	AUT	Otmar Striedinger	1: 17.39 min
25th	GER	Josef Ferstl	1: 17.50 min
26th	ITA	Werner Heel	1: 17.53 min
28	GER	Klaus Brandner	1: 17.83 min

Date : February 5, 2015 (postponed from February 4)

Defending champion: Ted Ligety

Route: Birds of Prey
starting altitude: 3337 m, target altitude: 2730 m, difference in altitude: 607 m
length: 1879 m, max. Inclination: 68%
Course setter: Florian Winkler (AUT)
65 drivers at the start, 50 in the classification.
Eliminated among others: Travis Ganong (USA), Bode Miller (USA), Manuel Osborne-Paradis (CAN), Ondřej Bank (CZE), Ivica Kostelić (CRO), Andreas Romar (FIN)

Winner Hannes Reichelt had already won a World Cup Super-G three times here on the "Birds of Prey", the last time around two months earlier, which was one of the main reasons why he was one of the favorites for this race. As one with an early start number, Ganong crashed with No. 3, but the "insider tip" was Bode Miller, who started again for the first time after a long break with No. 9. He also had the best intermediate times of the previous runners, but he fell on one of the last. He could probably have won a medal, possibly even a gold medal, based on the times measured.
In the further course of the race Svindal (No. 14 - he had only entered the World Championship speed competitions after an injury break) took the lead, but was overtaken by the next Théaux, who in turn stayed ahead of Mayer. After Reichelt's run, one of the biggest favorites, Jansrud, scored the same time as Mayer; his hand got stuck on a gate right after the start; How much else would have been possible for him could only be guessed by comparing the first interim times, when he was still “only” 0.16 seconds slower than Reichelt. But he and Mayer seemed to achieve the bronze medal. Then Cook surprised with No. 28, who was just as fast as the ones ranked according to Reichelt and who was absolutely the second best brand in the last interim.

Alpine combination

Marcel Hirscher

space	country	athlete	Departure	slalom	total time
1	AUT	Marcel Hirscher	1: 46.17 min	0: 49.93 min	2: 36.10 min
2	NOR	Kjetil Jansrud	1: 43.01 min	0: 53.28 min	2: 36.29 min
3	United States	Ted Ligety	1: 46.04 min	0: 50.36 min	2: 36.40 min
4th	AUT	Romed Baumann	1: 43.70 min	0: 52.78 min	2: 36.48 min
5	FRA	Alexis Pinturault	1: 45.65 min	0: 50.86 min	2: 36.51 min
6th	SUI	Carlo Janka	1: 44.18 min	0: 52.62 min	2: 36.80 min
7th	FIN	Andreas Romar	1: 44.96 min	0: 51.97 min	2: 36.93 min
8th	NOR	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	1: 44.53 min	0: 52.43 min	2: 36.96 min
9	FRA	Thomas Mermillod Blondin	1: 44.89 min	0: 52.10 min	2: 36.99 min
10	ITA	Dominik Paris	1: 44.75 min	0: 52.38 min	2: 37.13 min
11	AUT	Matthias Mayer	1: 43.75 min	0: 53.39 min	2: 37.14 min
...
13	SUI	Mauro Caviezel	1: 44.92 min	0: 52.25 min	2: 37.17 min
14th	SUI	Beat Feuz	1: 43.10 min	0: 54.17 min	2: 37.27 min
15th	SUI	Silvan Zurbriggen	1: 45.24 min	0: 52.05 min	2: 37.29 min
18th	ITA	Christof Innerhofer	1: 44.31 min	0: 53.99 min	2: 38.30 min
23	GER	Andreas Sander	1: 44.28 min	0: 55.01 min	2: 39.29 min
25th	GER	Josef Ferstl	1: 45.21 min	0: 54.34 min	2: 39.55 min

Date : February 8, 2015

Downhill route: Birds of Prey / Golden Eagle
starting height: 3483 m, target height: 2730 m,
length: 2623 m, difference in altitude: 753 m
Course setter: Hannes Trinkl (AUT), 36 gates

Defending champion: Ted Ligety

Slalom course: Birds of Prey
Start height: 2924 m, target height: 2724 m
Height difference: 200 m
Course setter: Jörg Roten (SUI), 66 goals

Downhill: 49 riders registered, 47 riders at the start, 45
eliminated in the ranking including: Victor Muffat-Jeandet (FRA), Ondřej Bank (CZE)
Slalom: 45 at the start, 39
eliminated in the ranking including: Otmar Striedinger (AUT), Natko Zrnčić-Dim (CRO), Morgan Pridy (CAN)

The Czech Ondřej Bank had a hard fall while jumping the finish line in the downhill race and was disqualified for a goal mistake. He had already surprised with 9th place in the special descent and was now on the verge of achieving a good finish time in the "combined descent", which would have made him one of the favorites due to his equally good slalom ability. As it was, he suffered injuries and severe abrasions and was hospitalized. This bad luck benefited Marcel Hirscher, who remained in the top thirty due to the disqualification of Bank and as a departure 30. was the first to contest the slalom, which was an advantage given the high temperatures and the slope that quickly deteriorated as a result. Speed ​​specialist Jansrud had to contest the slalom as the fastest downhill in thirtieth and came closest to Hirscher's total time of downhill and slalom. Thus, in the Alpine Combined, the two leaders in the World Cup landed on the first two places, one with the best slalom time, the other with the best downhill time. Ligety also benefited from the early slalom start number.

Giant slalom

Ted Ligety

space	country	athlete	Time 1st run	Time 2nd run	time
1	United States	Ted Ligety	1: 15.42 min	1: 18.74 min	2: 34.16 min
2	AUT	Marcel Hirscher	1: 15.18 min	1: 19.43 min	2: 34.61 min
3	FRA	Alexis Pinturault	1: 15.41 min	1: 19.63 min	2: 35.04 min
4th	GER	Felix Neureuther	1: 15.41 min	1: 19.85 min	2: 35.26 min
5	SWE	Matts Olsson	1: 15.66 min	1: 19.73 min	2: 35.39 min
6th	ITA	Roberto Nani	1: 15.36 min	1: 20.21 min	2: 35.57 min
7th	FRA	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	1: 16.00 min	1: 19.71 min	2: 35.71 min
8th	ITA	Florian Eisath	1: 16.64 min	1: 19.29 min	2: 35.93 min
9	United States	Tim Jitloff	1: 15.79 min	1: 20.25 min	2: 36.04 min
10	AUT	Philipp Schörghofer	1: 15.85 min	1: 20.43 min	2: 36.28 min
11	SUI	Carlo Janka	1: 16.36 min	1: 20.03 min	2: 36.39 min
...
15th	GER	Fritz Dopfer	1: 16.59 min	1: 20.42 min	2: 37.01 min
20th	GER	Stefan Luitz	1: 16.42 min	1: 21.41 min	2: 37.83 min
25th	SUI	Gino Caviezel	1: 17.20 min	1: 21.21 min	2: 38.41 min
27	SUI	Elia Zurbriggen	1: 17.53 min	1: 21.12 min	2: 38.65 min
30th	SUI	Justin Murisier	1: 18.11 min	1: 20.84 min	2: 38.95 min

Date : February 13, 2015

Defending champion: Ted Ligety

Route: Birds of Prey / Golden Eagle
starting height: 3124 m, target height: 2724 m, difference in altitude: 400 m
length: 1490 m, max. Inclination: 50% Course setter
1st run: A. Doppelhofer (GER)
Course setter 2nd run: D. Chastan (FRA)
162 drivers at the start (incl. Qualification), 99 of them started for the first run and 52 were
eliminated including: Benjamin Raich (AUT), Thomas Fanara (FRA), Mathieu Faivre (FRA), Leif Kristian Haugen (NOR), Christoph Nösig (AUT), Linus Straßer (GER)

Ted Ligety became world champion in giant slalom for the third time in a row after 2011 and 2013 . This makes him the first rider to secure 3 × World Championship gold in the giant slalom.
After the first run, Hirscher was in the lead, but the gaps were minimal; Ligety in fifth was only 0.24 s behind; Nani was in 2nd place (+ 0.18), Neureuther and Pinturault followed at the same time (+ 0.23).
In the first run 21 runners were eliminated, one did not start (therefore 99 starters), and 78 runners were included in the ranking. 60 of them were allowed for the second round, but Linus Strasser as thirty-fourth (lag 3.66 s) did not take part. Seven runners were eliminated in the second run.

slalom

Jean-Baptiste Grange

space	country	athlete	Time 1st run	Time 2nd run	time
1	FRA	Jean-Baptiste Grange	1: 04.26 min	0: 53.21 min	1: 57.47 min
2	GER	Fritz Dopfer	1: 04.31 min	0: 53.51 min	1: 57.82 min
3	GER	Felix Neureuther	1: 04.47 min	0: 53.55 min	1: 58.02 min
4th	NOR	Henrik Kristoffersen	1: 04.64 min	0: 53.40 min	1: 58.04 min
5	SWE	Mattias Hargin	1: 04.23 min	0: 53.86 min	1: 58.09 min
6th	SWE	André Myhrer	1: 04.04 min	0: 54.17 min	1: 58.21 min
7th	SWE	Markus Larsson	1: 05.15 min	0: 53.32 min	1: 58.47 min
8th	RUS	Alexander Khoroshilov	1: 03.66 min	0: 55.28 min	1: 58.94 min
9	NOR	Sebastian Foss Solevåg	1: 05.61 min	0: 54.17 min	1: 59.78 min
10	GER	Linus Strasser	1: 05.67 min	0: 54.18 min	1: 59.85 min
11	ITA	Manfred Mölgg	1: 05.13 min	0: 54.87 min	2: 00.00 min
12	AUT	Reinfried Herbst	1: 05.89 min	0: 54.51 min	2: 00.40 min
13	SUI	Justin Murisier	1: 06.21 min	0: 54.60 min	2: 00.81 min
...
17th	GER	Philipp Schmid	1: 06.35 min	0: 54.62 min	2: 00.97 min
46	MEX	Hubertus of Hohenlohe	1: 36.39 min	1: 19.17 min	2: 55.56 min

Date : Sunday, February 15, 2015, 10:15 a.m. / 2:30 p.m.

Defending champion: Marcel Hirscher

Route: Birds of Prey
starting altitude: 2935 m, target altitude: 2721 m, difference in altitude: 214 m
length: 690 m, max. Inclination: 50%
Course setter 1st run: Christian Mitter (NOR)
Course setter 2nd run: Stefano Costazza (ITA)
100 drivers at the start, 46 in the classification
Eliminated among others: Giuliano Razzoli (ITA), Mario Matt (AUT), Daniel Yule (SUI), Benjamin Raich (AUT), Luca Aerni (SUI) (all first run); Alexis Pinturault (FRA), Patrick Thaler (ITA), Jens Byggmark (SWE), Michael Matt (AUT), Marcel Hirscher (AUT), Stefano Gross (ITA) (all second run)

As with the giant slalom, there was also a qualification and only 100 runners were allowed to take part in the actual race; it was planned that 60 of them could start in the second round, but this limit was not reached. After the first round, Marcel Hirscher, who started with No. 1, led in 63.38 s ahead of Choroschilow (+ 0.28), Myhrer (+ 0.66), Hargin (+ 0.85), Grange (+ 0.88) , Dopfer (+ 0.93) and Neureuther (+ 1.09). Only 57 runners were classified. Victor Muffat-Jeandet (50th place, 16.20 seconds behind) did not start for the second run, ten runners were eliminated in the second run. In the second run it started snowing, which got stronger towards the end of the race and contributed to the fact that the leaders fell behind and a. Hirscher left.

Results women

Departure

Tina Maze

space	country	athlete	time
1	SLO	Tina Maze	1: 45.89 min
2	AUT	Anna Fenninger	1: 45.91 min
3	SUI	Lara Gut	1: 46.23 min
4th	AUT	Nicole Schmidhofer	1: 46.92 min
5	United States	Lindsey Vonn	1: 46.94 min
6th	AUT	Elisabeth Görgl	1: 46.95 min
7th	SUI	Nadja Jnglin-Kamer	1: 46.97 min
8th	ITA	Daniela Merighetti	1: 47.14 min
9	SUI	Fabienne Suter	1: 47.18 min
10	GER	Viktoria Rebensburg	1:47:24 min
11	LIE	Tina Weirather	1: 47.27 min
...
15th	AUT	Cornelia Hütter	1: 47.87 min
28	ITA	Johanna Schnarf	1: 48.80 min
29	SUI	Marianne Abderhalden	1: 48.82 min
31	GER	Veronique Hronek	1: 50.43 min

Date : February 6, 2015

Defending champion: Marion Rolland (she was injured at the World Cup Super G in Cortina d'Ampezzo shortly before the World Cup and could not compete)

Route: Raptor
starting height: 3440 m, target height: 2730 m, difference in altitude: 710 m
length: 2460 m, max. Incline: 59%
Course setter: Jean-Philippe Vulliet (FRA)
39 drivers at the start, 37 in the classification
Eliminated: Marie Jay Marchand-Arvier (FRA), Valérie Grenier (CAN)

As in the Super-G three days before, there was a hundredths duel between Maze and Fenninger; the Austrian with no. 16 had submitted, Maze successfully countered with no. 21; Both runners were not in the foreground in the first real split, the second (of four) had a tie, after that Maze was in first place - and she was consistently ahead of the Austrian (maximum advantage 0.54 s), but her credit shrank more and more, with the last one it was only 0.12 s.
The convalescent Lindsey Vonn, who started last of the top group (No. 22), could not match her performance from the Super-G, her deficit even increased from 0.49 to 1.20 s, of which she still has a little could make up for.
Jnglin-Kamer had the best first interim time with 0.54 seconds ahead of the simultaneous Maze and Fenninger. Also noteworthy are the tight time gaps between ranks 4 to 7.

Super G

Anna Fenninger

space	country	athlete	time
1	AUT	Anna Fenninger	1: 10.29 min
2	SLO	Tina Maze	1: 10.32 min
3	United States	Lindsey Vonn	1: 10.44 min
4th	AUT	Cornelia Hütter	1: 10.55 min
5	GER	Viktoria Rebensburg	1: 11.07 min
6th	LIE	Tina Weirather	1: 11.32 min
7th	SUI	Lara Gut	1: 11.57 min
8th	SWE	Kajsa Kling	1: 11.76 min
9	United States	Julia Mancuso	1: 11.94 min
10	ITA	Elena Curtoni	1: 11.97 min
11	GER	Veronique Hronek	1: 12.11 min
...
16	SUI	Priska Nufer	1: 12.39 min
22nd	SUI	Fabienne Suter	1: 12.75 min

Date : February 3, 2015

Defending champion: Tina Maze

Route: Raptor
starting height: 3320 m, target height: 2730 m, difference in altitude: 590 m
length: 1840 m, max. Incline: 57%
Course setter: Roland Assinger (AUT)
46 drivers at the start, 39 in the classification
Eliminated among others: Daniela Merighetti (ITA), Nicole Hosp (AUT), Elisabeth Görgl (AUT), Marie-Michèle Gagnon (CAN), Edit Miklós (HUN), Alexandra Coletti (MON)

The race was originally supposed to start at 11:00 a.m., but had to be moved five gates down due to strong winds. The start was finally 30 minutes late at 11:30 a.m.

What is remarkable about the result of the first race to this World Cup is that the overall World Cup winners of the last three years (2014 Fenninger, 2013 Maze, 2012 Vonn) stood together on the podium.
Another interesting fact that can be mentioned is that the gap between first and second placed, as at the previous World Championships in Vail in 1989 and 1999, was also 3 hundredths.

As in the World Cup season, there was the frequent duel between Maze and Fenninger. For the time being, Rebensburg (No. 10) had taken the lead with a clear nine tenths of a second on Elena Curtoni (No. 2), Hütter (No. 15) undercut this time again relatively clearly, while Lara Gut (No. 16) only came in third came in the intermediate ranking. After the fall of Hosp (No. 17) it was questionable to what extent Lindsey Vonn (No. 18) was fit enough for her comeback, which she proved with a new best time. But Maze (No. 19) was a little faster, Weirather (No. 20) stayed behind Rebensburg, Görgl (No. 21) was out. Olympic champion Fenninger started last of this top group 16 to 22 and was ahead of all intermediate time stops, but lost continuously (with only 0.33 s in the first measurement). Maze was practically always in second place, while Vonn drove the last two sections the fastest and thus overtook Hütter.

Alpine combination

space	country	athlete	Departure	slalom	total time
1	SLO	Tina Maze	1: 45.25 min	0: 48.12 min	2: 33.37 min
2	AUT	Nicole Hosp	1: 46.15 min	0: 47.44 min	2: 33.59 min
3	AUT	Michaela Kirchgasser	1: 46.58 min	0: 47.14 min	2: 33.72 min
4th	AUT	Anna Fenninger	1: 45.51 min	0: 48.75 min	2: 34.26 min
5	SUI	Lara Gut	1: 45.27 min	0: 49.04 min	2: 34.31 min
6th	AUT	Kathrin Zettel	1: 47.00 min	0: 48.01 min	2: 35.01 min
7th	SLO	Ilka Štuhec	1: 46.39 min	0: 49.41 min	2: 35.80 min
8th	ITA	Francesca Marsaglia	1: 46.65 min	0: 49.31 min	2: 35.96 min
9	NOR	Ragnhild Mowinckel	1: 46.32 min	0: 49.66 min	2: 35.98 min
10	FRA	Margot Bailet	1: 47.49 min	0: 49.10 min	2: 36.59 min
...
13	GER	Veronique Hronek	1: 47.31 min	0: 50.60 min	2: 37.91 min

Nicole Hosp

Michaela Kirchgasser

Date : February 9, 2015

Defending champion: Maria Höfl-Riesch (she ended her career after the 2013/14 season).

Downhill route: Raptor
starting height: 3440 m, target height: 2730 m,
length: 2530 m, difference in altitude: 710 m
Course setter: Jean-Philippe Vulliet (FRA), 41 gates

Slalom course: Kestrel
Start height: 2911 m, target height: 2726 m
Height difference: 185 m
Course setter: Valerio Ghirardi (SLO), 59 goals

Downhill: 32 riders at the start, 27
eliminated in the classification : Elena Curtoni (ITA), Marie-Michèle Gagnon (CAN), Valérie Grenier (CAN), Leona Popović (CRO), Alexandra Coletti (ITA)
Slalom: 25 at the start, 22 in the ranking
Not at the start: Johanna Schnarf (ITA), Edit Miklós (HUN)
Eliminated: Priska Nufer (SUI), Maria Therese Tviberg (NOR), Lindsey Vonn (USA)

Maze benefited from her good downhill performance when she was 9 tenths faster than Hosp and 1.33 s faster than Kirchgasser. Her distances on Lara Gut (0.02 s) and Fenninger (0.26 s) were smaller, but she didn't need to worry too much about their weakness in slalom. Of the better female slalom riders, Zettel was 1.75 seconds behind; Lindsey Vonn had already gambled away her chances for a medal, 1.31 seconds behind. With the exception of Fenninger, the three ÖSV runners were also faster than the Slovenian and if Hosp had set the best time achieved by Kirchgasser, she would have taken gold with eight hundredths of a second ahead of Maze.

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete	Time 1st run	Time 2nd run	time
1	AUT	Anna Fenninger	1: 08.98 min	1: 10.18 min	2: 19.16 min
2	GER	Viktoria Rebensburg	1: 10.68 min	1: 09.88 min	2: 20.56 min
3	SWE	Jessica Lindell-Vicarby	1: 09.88 min	1: 10.77 min	2: 20.65 min
4th	LIE	Tina Weirather	1: 10.33 min	1: 10.38 min	2: 20.71 min
5	SLO	Tina Maze	1: 10.08 min	1: 10.82 min	2: 20.90 min
6th	AUT	Michaela Kirchgasser	1: 09.79 min	1: 11.12 min	2: 20.91 min
7th	AUT	Kathrin Zettel	1: 10.70 min	1: 10.61 min	2: 21.31 min
8th	United States	Mikaela Shiffrin	1: 10.70 min	1: 10.93 min	2: 21.63 min
9	SWE	Maria Pietilä-Holmner	1: 10.63 min	1: 11.21 min	2: 21.84 min
10	SWE	Sara Hector	1: 10.67 min	1: 11.29 min	2: 21.96 min
...
17th	SUI	Wendy Holdener	1: 10.97 min	1: 11.73 min	2: 22.70 min
19th	SUI	Dominique Gisin	1: 11.57 min	1: 11.31 min	2: 22.88 min
20th	ITA	Manuela Mölgg	1: 11.18 min	1: 11.77 min	2: 22.95 min
32	SUI	Michelle Gisin	1: 12.69 min	1: 13.40 min	2: 26.09 min

Viktoria Rebensburg

Jessica Lindell-Vicarby

Date : February 12, 2015

Defending champion: Tessa Worley

Route: Birds of Prey / Golden Eagle
starting height: 3077 m, target height: 2721 m, height difference: 324 m,
length: 1305 m, max. Incline: 50% Course
setter:
1st run: Valerio Ghirardi (SLO)
2nd run: Christian Thoma (SWE)
116 riders registered, 113 at the start; 96 of them in the rating after the first run, but only 60 allowed for the second run - and ultimately 56 classified; the last Helga Vilhjalmsdotter from Iceland was 16.38 s behind
Eliminated among others: Eva-Maria Brem (AUT), Lara Gut (SUI), Anémone Marmottan (FRA), Federica Brignone (ITA) (all in the first run); four eliminated in the second run, including Marta Bassino (ITA), Taïna Barioz (FRA)

Silver medalist Rebensburg was classified in 11th place after the first run and achieved the fastest time in the second run. Defending champion Worley finished thirteenth.
After the first run, Fenninger, who started the race with No. 7, was already 0.81 seconds ahead of Kirchgasser, who delivered a surprise with No. 19. Lindell was third and Maze was fourth with + 1.10 s. The deficit of Rebensburg of 1.70 s seemed too big to achieve anything decisive. But Shiffrin stayed a little below expectations, with a deficit of 1.72 s at the same time as Zettel in 13th place. Worley was in 20th place (+ 2.40 s), Lindsey Vonn (start number 31) in 1: 11.65 in 27th place. Brem, who started with number 4 and who was one of the favorites, had already at the first transition in this early phase of the race, according to internal stops, had the better time than Fenninger, missed the direction and was eliminated. Lara Gut (No. 9) and Brignone (No. 13) didn't get very far either, whereas Marmottan (No. 10) was eliminated with the second best intermediate time (0.44 s behind Fenninger).
In the second run Vonn set the fifth-best time, which brought her 14th place in 2: 22.38. Later, Zettel (fourth term) was able to rank better than Shiffrin for the time being; then Rebensburg achieved a through time of 0.73 s better with 1: 09.88, which ultimately turned out to be the best running time. Runner after runner failed; she finally overtook Maze (seventh time) and also Lindell (sixth time) and had the medal. Kirchgasser only brought the eleventh term together - only Fenninger was still on top. But she was measured with a lead of 1.80 seconds in the second intermediate time, only a mistake in the finish slope (she called this action a "pizza cut", an expression that is used for such a transverse position in the ski kindergarten) made her lose 0.30 s slower than Rebensburg.

slalom

Mikaela Shiffrin

space	country	athlete	Time 1st run	Time 2nd run	time
1	United States	Mikaela Shiffrin	0: 50.07 min	0: 48.41 min	1: 38.48 min
2	SWE	Frida Hansdotter	0: 50.47 min	0: 48.35 min	1: 38.82 min
3	CZE	Šárka Strachová	0: 50.51 min	0: 48.74 min	1: 39.25 min
4th	SVK	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	0: 51.25 min	0: 48.17 min	1: 39.42 min
5	AUT	Kathrin Zettel	0: 51.10 min	0: 48.40 min	1: 39.50 min
6th	CAN	Erin Mielzynski	0: 50.94 min	0: 49.04 min	1: 39.98 min
7th	AUT	Carmen Thalmann	0: 51.01 min	0: 49.51 min	1: 40.52 min
8th	SLO	Tina Maze	0: 50.92 min	0: 50.04 min	1: 40.96 min
9	FRA	Nastasia Noens	0: 52.20 min	0: 48.97 min	1: 41.17 min
10	CAN	Marie-Michèle Gagnon	0: 51.62 min	0: 49.79 min	1: 41.41 min
...
12	GER	Maren Wiesler	0: 51.91 min	0: 49.61 min	1: 41.52 min
13	GER	Lena Dürr	0: 52.16 min	0: 49.38 min	1: 41.54 min
15th	SUI	Charlotte Chable	0: 52.72 min	0: 49.01 min	1: 41.73 min
16	ITA	Chiara Costazza	0: 52.41 min	0: 49.50 min	1: 41.91 min
19th	ITA	Federica Brignone	0: 52.90 min	0: 49.29 min	1: 42.19 min

Date : February 14, 2015

Defending champion: Mikaela Shiffrin

Route: Birds of Prey
starting altitude: 2908 m, target altitude: 2721 m, difference in altitude: 187 m
length: 640 m, max. Incline: 46% Course setter
1st run: T. Gfeller (NOR)
Course setter 2nd run: T. Zuzula (SVK)
120 drivers registered, 118 at the start; after the first run 86 in the ranking; admitted to the second run 60, of which 2 (including Resi Stiegler ) did not run and 10 were eliminated - 48 eliminated in the evaluation,
including: Sarah Schleper (MEX) (first run); Nicole Hosp (AUT), Michaela Kirchgasser (AUT), Manuela Mölgg (ITA), Wendy Holdener (SUI), Michelle Gisin (SUI) (second run)
Shiffrin (No. 2) already led by 4 tenths after the first run Hansdotter and 0.44 on Strachová; the World Cup runner-up two years ago, Kirchgasser, was 0.77 s behind in fourth. Other important ranks (times in seconds): 5th Maze (+ 0.85), 6th Mielzynski (+ 0.87), 7th Thalmann (+ 0.94), 8th Holdener (+ 1.02), 9th Note (+ 1.03), 10. Velez-Zuzulová (+ 1.18); also 12. Hosp (+ 1.39), 13. Löseth (+1.43)
In the second run, Shiffrin "only" drove the fourth best time with 48.41 s, which she easily achieved for victory; Velez-Zuzulová's best time was 48.17 s ahead of Hansdotter (48.35 s) and Zettel (48.40 s).

Team competition

space	country	athlete
1	AUT	Eva-Maria Brem Marcel Hirscher Michaela Kirchgasser Christoph Nösig Substitute driver: Nicole Hosp , Philipp Schörghofer
2	CAN	Candace Crawford Phil Brown Erin Mielzynski Trevor Philp Substitute driver: Marie-Pier Préfontaine , Erik Read
3	SWE	Maria Pietilä-Holmner Mattias Hargin Anna Swenn-Larsson André Myhrer Substitute drivers: Sara Hector , Markus Larsson
4th	SUI	Wendy Holdener Gino Caviezel Michelle Gisin Justin Murisier Substitute drivers: Charlotte Chable , Elia Zurbriggen
5	ITA	Chiara Costazza Giovanni Borsotti Francesca Marsaglia Matteo Marsaglia Substitute drivers: Manuela Mölgg , Davide Simoncelli
...
9	GER	Veronique Hronek Linus Straßer Viktoria Rebensburg Felix Neureuther Substitute drivers: Lena Dürr , Philipp Schmid

Date : February 10, 2015
Route: Golden Peak, Vail

The team competition was held in the form of a parallel giant slalom. In each round, two women and two men from one team competed against each other in four runs, the winning team received one point per run; if the runtime was the same, both teams got one point. With a final score of 2: 2, the sum of the running times of the fastest woman and the fastest man per team decided.

16 starting places were available for the race; The best 16 teams in the current Nations Cup ranking of the 2014/15 season would have qualified . However, since Liechtenstein (13th) and Slovakia (15th) did not start, Great Britain (20th) and Argentina (without World Cup points) were able to take the remaining two starting positions.

Argentina, Great Britain and Russia took part in such a competition for the first time.

The Austrian Marcel Hirscher, the Canadian Erin Mielzynski and the Swede André Myhrer were the only ones who could win all four duels.

The silver medal for Canada was a big surprise, because so far the "maple leaves" had not reached a podium in any team competition (neither in the World Cup nor at the World Championships).

Grid

	Round of 16					Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	Austria	4th
	16	Argentina	0
						1	Austria	3
						8th	Norway	1
	8th	Norway	3
	9	Slovenia	1
											1	Austria	3
										4th	Switzerland	1
	5	France	3
	12	Russia	1
						5	France	1
						4th	Switzerland	3
	4th	Switzerland	2
	13	Croatia	2
																1	Austria	3
															10	Canada	1
	3	United States	3
	14th	Finland	1
						3	United States	1
						6th	Sweden	3
	6th	Sweden	4th
	11	Czech Republic	1
											6th	Sweden	2
										10	Canada	2
	7th	Germany	2
	10	Canada	2
						10	Canada	3
															Race for 3rd place
						2	Italy	1
	2	Italy	3												4th	Switzerland	1
	15th	United Kingdom	1													6th	Sweden	3

mascot

The mascots of the Alpine Ski World Cup 2015 were the mountain lion Pete and the raccoon Earl , named after Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton , the founders of the Vail Ski Resort .

Web links

• Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 - organizer's website (English)
• Information from the FIS

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ski World Championships 2015 in Beaver Creek / Vail. Tages-Anzeiger , June 3, 2010, accessed June 3, 2010 . 
2. ↑ 2015 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships . In: mountainhaus.com , accessed on January 28, 2015. (English)
3. ↑ 2013 Beaver Creek World Cup Maps . ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: vvf.org , accessed on January 28, 2015. (English) 
4. ↑ COURSE MAPS . ( Memento of March 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: vailbeavercreek2015.com , accessed on January 28, 2015. (English)
5. ^ The 2015 Alpine Ski World Championships in Beaver Creek in figures , accessed on January 28, 2015
6. ↑ Ligety for the third time in a row giant slalom world champion
7. ↑ 2015 MASCOTS ( Memento from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on January 28, 2015