Alpine Ski World Cup 1989/90

Alpine Ski World Cup 1989/90
	Men's	Ladies
winner
total	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Petra Kronberger
Departure	Helmut Höflehner	Katharina Gutensohn
Super G	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Carole Merle
Giant slalom	Ole K. Furuseth Günther Mader	Anita Wachter
slalom	Armin Bittner	Vreni Schneider
combination	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Anita Wachter
Nations Cup	Austria
Nations Cup	Austria	Austria
Competitions
Venues	19th	16
Individual competitions	34	33
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The 1989/90 season of the Alpine Ski World Cup organized by the FIS began on August 8, 1989 in Las Leñas , Argentina (women) and on August 11 in Thredbo , Australia (men) with two races each. The season only continued at the end of November and ended on March 18, 1990 in Åre . 32 races were held for the men (9  downhill runs , 6  super-G , 7  giant slaloms , 10  slaloms ). For women there were 31 races (8 downhill runs, 6 super-G, 8 giant slaloms, 9 slaloms). There were also two combination evaluations.

This season was an interim year without a World Cup or Olympic Winter Games.

World Cup ratings

total

Men's rank athlete Points 1  Pirmin Zurbriggen 357 2  Ole Kristian Furuseth 234 3  Günther Mader 213 4th  Armin Bittner 193 5  Helmut Höflehner 174 6th  Atle Skårdal 167 7th  Hubert Strolz 155 8th  Lars-Börje Eriksson 121 9  Alberto Tomba 116 10  Rudolf Nierlich 110 11  Paul Accola 109 12  Daniel Mahrer 105 13  William Besse 102 14th  Franck Piccard 101 15th  Kristian Ghedina 97  Konrad Kurt Ladstätter 17th  Bernhard Gstrein 96  Franz Heinzer 19th  Michael Tritscher 93 20th  Markus Wasmeier 91 21st  Jonas Nilsson 87 22nd  Tetsuya Okabe 75 23  Richard Kroell 65  Thomas Stangassinger 25th  Marc Girardelli 64 26th  Peter Roth 61 27  Niklas Henning 57 28  Peter Runggaldier 56 29  Danilo Sbardellotto 52 30th  Bernhard Fahner 50

Ladies rank Athlete Points 1  Petra Kronberger 341 2  Anita Wachter 300 3  Michaela Gerg 270 4th  Maria Walliser 227 5  Carole Merle 202 6th  Vreni Schneider 198 7th  Mateja Svet 140 8th  Michela Figini 134 9  Sigrid Wolf 133 10  Diann Roffe 130 11  Karin Dedler 125 12  Katharina Gutensohn 114 13  Claudia Strobl 108 14th  Veronika Wallinger 102 15th  Ida Ladstätter 98 16  Karin Buder 94 17th  Kristi Terzian 93 18th  Regine Mösenlechner 85 19th  Monika Maierhofer 83 20th  Heidi Zeller-Bähler 72 21st  Ingrid Salvenmoser 50 22nd  Camilla Nilsson 48 23  Katjuša Pušnik 47  Barbara Sadleder 25th  Ingrid Stoeckl 42 26th  Stefanie Schuster 41 27  Nathalie Bouvier 39 28  Nataša Bokal 38 29  Julie Lunde Hansen 37 30th  Brigitte Oertli 35

Departure

Men's rank athlete Points 1  Helmut Höflehner 166 2  Atle Skårdal 120 3  Pirmin Zurbriggen 105 4th  William Besse 88  Daniel Mahrer 6th  Kristian Ghedina 87 7th  Franz Heinzer 84 8th  Felix Belczyk 49 9  Roman Rupp 38 10  Bernhard Fahner 35

Ladies rank Athlete Points 1  Katharina Gutensohn 110 2  Petra Kronberger 106 3  Michela Figini 105  Michaela Gerg 5  Maria Walliser 99 6th  Veronika Wallinger 69 7th  Karin Dedler 62  Heidi Zeller-Bähler 9  Miriam Vogt 54 10  Carole Merle 50

Super G

Men's rank athlete Points 1  Pirmin Zurbriggen 98 2  Günther Mader 71 3  Lars-Börje Eriksson 61 4th  Franck Piccard 52 5  Atle Skårdal 47 6th  Ole Kristian Furuseth 43 7th  Niklas Henning 39 8th  Peter Runggaldier 37 9  Armand Schiele 35  Markus Wasmeier

Ladies rank Athlete Points 1  Carole Merle 99 2  Michaela Gerg 79 3  Sigrid Wolf 73 4th  Petra Kronberger 69 5  Maria Walliser 56 6th  Regine Mösenlechner 52 7th  Cathy Chedal 45 8th  Anita Wachter 43 9  Karin Dedler 36 10  Veronika Wallinger 33

Giant slalom

Men's rank athlete Points 1  Ole Kristian Furuseth 96  Günther Mader 3  Hubert Strolz 71 4th  Richard Kroell 65 5  Lars-Börje Eriksson 56 6th  Pirmin Zurbriggen 48 7th  Armin Bittner 43 8th  Rudolf Nierlich 42 9  Fredrik Nyberg 35 10  Hans Pieren 31

Ladies rank Athlete Points 1  Anita Wachter 133 2  Mateja Svet 89 3  Petra Kronberger 85 4th  Diann Roffe 82 5  Vreni Schneider 69 6th  Maria Walliser 55 7th  Carole Merle 53 8th  Michaela Gerg 47 9  Zoë Haas 43 10  Nathalie Bouvier 39

slalom

Men's rank athlete Points 1  Armin Bittner 150 2  Ole Kristian Furuseth 95  Alberto Tomba 4th  Michael Tritscher 93 5  Bernhard Gstrein 91 6th  Jonas Nilsson 78 7th  Tetsuya Okabe 75 8th  Konrad Kurt Ladstätter 69 9  Rudolf Nierlich 68 10  Paul Accola 58

Ladies rank Athlete Points 1  Vreni Schneider 125 2  Claudia Strobl 108 3  Ida Ladstätter 98 4th  Karin Buder 94 5  Anita Wachter 89 6th  Monika Maierhofer 71 7th  Christine von Grünigen 61 8th  Patricia Chauvet 59 9  Kristina Andersson 58 10  Petra Kronberger 56  Veronika Sarec

combination

Men's rank athlete Points 1  Pirmin Zurbriggen 50 2  Paul Accola 40 3  Markus Wasmeier 27 4th  Thomas Hangl 23 5  Günther Mader 15th 6th  William Besse 14th 7th  Kristian Ghedina 10  Franck Piccard 9  Peter Runggaldier 9  Peter Wirnsberger II

Ladies rank Athlete Points 1  Anita Wachter 35 2  Michaela Gerg 32 3  Petra Kronberger 25th  Brigitte Oertli 5  Chantal Bournisse 23 6th  Ingrid Stoeckl 21st 7th  Maria Walliser 17th 8th  Anja Haas 14th  Heidi Zurbriggen 10  Kristi Terzian 11

Podium placements men

Departure

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
December 16, 1989	Val Gardena ( ITA )	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Franz Heinzer	Kristian Ghedina
January 11, 1990	Schladming ( AUT )	Franck Piccard	Kristian Ghedina	Daniel Mahrer
01/20/1990	Kitzbühel ( AUT )	Atle Skårdal	Helmut Höflehner	Pirmin Zurbriggen
01/27/1990	Val d'Isère ( FRA )	Helmut Höflehner	Atle Skårdal	William Besse
01/29/1990	Val d'Isère ( FRA )	Helmut Höflehner	William Besse	Franz Heinzer
02/03/1990	Cortina d'Ampezzo ( ITA )	Kristian Ghedina	Daniel Mahrer	Helmut Höflehner
02/04/1990	Cortina d'Ampezzo ( ITA )	Helmut Höflehner	Franz Heinzer Atle Skårdal
03/15/1990	Åre ( SWE )	Kristian Ghedina	Franz Heinzer	Helmut Höflehner
03/17/1990	Åre ( SWE )	Atle Skårdal	Helmut Höflehner	Felix Belczyk

Super G

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
12/10/1989	Val d'Isère ( FRA )	Niklas Henning	Franck Piccard	Peter Runggaldier
12/12/1989	Sestriere ( ITA )	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Franck Piccard
01/29/1990	Val d'Isère ( FRA )	Steve Locher	Armand Schiele	Günther Mader
01/30/1990	Les Menuires ( FRA )	Günther Mader	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Atle Skårdal
02/06/1990	Courmayeur ( ITA )	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Günther Mader	Peter Runggaldier
03/10/1990	Hemsedal ( NOR )	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Karl Alpiger	Hans Stuffer

Giant slalom

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
08/11/1989	Thredbo ( AUS )	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Günther Mader
11/23/1989	Park City ( USA )	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Ivano Camozzi
11/30/1989	Waterville Valley ( USA )	Urs Kälin	Lars-Börje Eriksson	Günther Mader
12/02/1989	Mont Sainte-Anne ( CAN )	Günther Mader	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Armin Bittner
01/14/1990	Alta Badia ( ITA )	Richard Kroell	Günther Mader	Rudolf Nierlich Hubert Strolz
01/23/1990	Veysonnaz ( SUI )	Richard Kroell	Hubert Strolz	Rudolf Nierlich
03/03/1990	Veysonnaz ( SUI )	Fredrik Nyberg	Hubert Strolz	Richard Kroell

slalom

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
08/12/1989	Thredbo ( AUS )	Armin Bittner	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Bernhard Gstrein
11/29/1989	Waterville Valley ( USA )	Alberto Tomba	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Marc Girardelli
December 3rd, 1989	Mont Sainte-Anne ( CAN )	Thomas Stangassinger	Bernhard Gstrein	Marc Girardelli
01/06/1990	Kranjska Gora ( YUG )	Jonas Nilsson	Hubert Strolz	Michael Tritscher
07/01/1990	Kranjska Gora ( YUG )	Armin Bittner	Bernhard Gstrein	Paul Accola
01/12/1990	Schladming ( AUT )	Armin Bittner	Michael Tritscher	Konrad Kurt Ladstätter Tetsuya Okabe
01/21/1990	Kitzbühel ( AUT )	Rudolf Nierlich	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Armin Bittner
03/04/1990	Veysonnaz ( SUI )	Armin Bittner	Alberto Tomba	Hubert Strolz
March 8, 1990	Geilo ( NOR )	Alberto Tomba	Michael Tritscher	Jonas Nilsson
03/12/1990	Halls ( SWE )	Alberto Tomba	Rudolf Nierlich	Armin Bittner

combination

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
11/12/01/1990	Schladming ( AUT )	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Paul Accola	Günther Mader
January 20/21, 1990	Kitzbühel ( AUT )	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Paul Accola	Markus Wasmeier

Podium placements women

Departure

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
08/08/1989	Las Leñas ( ARG )	Michaela Gerg	Heidi Zeller-Bähler	Veronika Wallinger
09.12.1989	Steamboat Springs ( USA )	Maria Walliser	Michela Figini	Michaela Gerg
December 16, 1989	Panorama ( CAN )	Petra Kronberger	Michaela Gerg	Karen Percy
12/17/1989	Panorama ( CAN )	Petra Kronberger	Katharina Gutensohn	Michaela Gerg
01/13/1990	House in the Ennstal ( AUT )	Maria Walliser	Petra Kronberger	Karin Dedler
01/27/1990	Santa Caterina ( ITA )	Michela Figini	Miriam Vogt	Petra Kronberger
02/03/1990	Veysonnaz ( SUI )	Katharina Gutensohn	Carole Merle	Michela Figini
02/04/1990	Veysonnaz ( SUI )	Katharina Gutensohn	Carole Merle	Karin Dedler

Super G

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
08/09/1989	Las Leñas ( ARG )	Anita Wachter	Cathy Chedal	Petra Kronberger
12/02/1989	Vail ( USA )	Regine Mösenlechner	Sigrid Wolf	Michaela Gerg
01/27/1990	Santa Caterina ( ITA )	Sigrid Wolf	Carole Merle	Petra Kronberger
02/10/1990	Méribel ( FRA )	Carole Merle	Maria Walliser	Michaela Gerg
02/11/1990	Méribel ( FRA )	Carole Merle	Katja Seizinger	Maria Walliser
March 16, 1990	Åre ( SWE )	Carole Merle	Michaela Gerg	Petra Kronberger

Giant slalom

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
11/24/1989	Park City ( USA )	Nathalie Bouvier	Diann Roffe	Anita Wachter
December 3rd, 1989	Vail ( USA )	Anita Wachter	Diann Roffe	Vreni Schneider
01/08/1990	Hinterstoder ( AUT )	Petra Kronberger	Anita Wachter	Michaela Gerg
01/20/1990	Maribor ( YUG )	Mateja Svet	Anita Wachter	Maria Walliser
01/28/1990	Santa Caterina ( ITA )	Petra Kronberger	Anita Wachter	Zoë Haas
02/05/1990	Veysonnaz ( SUI )	Mateja Svet	Anita Wachter	Diann Roffe
03/10/1990	Stranda ( NOR )	Carole Merle	Kristi Terzian	Florence Masnada
March 14, 1990	Klövsjö ( SWE )	Carole Merle	Julie Lunde Hansen	Mateja Svet

slalom

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
11/25/1989	Park City ( USA )	Vreni Schneider	Monika Maierhofer	Anita Wachter
12/10/1989	Steamboat Springs ( USA )	Claudia Strobl	Veronika Sarec	Karin Buder
01/06/1990	Piancavallo ( ITA )	Vreni Schneider	Monika Maierhofer	Claudia Strobl
09/01/1990	Hinterstoder ( AUT )	Vreni Schneider	Anita Wachter	Christine von Grünigen
01/14/1990	House in the Ennstal ( AUT )	Veronika Sarec	Monika Maierhofer	Claudia Strobl
01/21/1990	Maribor ( YUG )	Vreni Schneider	Ida Ladstätter	Patricia Chauvet
03/11/1990	Stranda ( NOR )	Karin Buder	Claudia Strobl	Anita Wachter
March 13, 1990	Vemdalen ( SWE )	Petra Kronberger	Ida Ladstätter	Claudia Strobl
03/18/1990	Åre ( SWE )	Vreni Schneider	Patricia Chauvet	Pernilla Wiberg

combination

date	place	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
09/10/12/1989	Steamboat Springs ( USA )	Brigitte Oertli	Michaela Gerg	Anita Wachter
January 13/14, 1990	House in the Ennstal ( AUT )	Petra Kronberger	Anita Wachter	Ingrid Stoeckl

Nations Cup

Overall rating rank country Points 1  Austria 2816 2  Switzerland 1968 3  BR Germany 1220 4th  France 671 5  Italy 572 6th  Norway 516 7th  Sweden 469 8th  United States 367 9  Yugoslavia 329 10  Canada 178 11  Japan 75 12  Luxembourg 64 13  Liechtenstein 26th 14th  Soviet Union 20th 15th  United Kingdom 3 16  Poland 1

Men's rank country Points 1  Austria 1272 2  Switzerland 1058 3  Italy 551 4th  Norway 462 5  BR Germany 448 6th  Sweden 323 7th  France 228 8th  Canada 88 9  United States 81 10  Japan 75 11  Luxembourg 64 12  Yugoslavia 36 13  Liechtenstein 26th 14th  United Kingdom 3 15th  Poland 1  Soviet Union

Ladies rank country Points 1  Austria 1544 2  Switzerland 910 3  BR Germany 772 4th  France 443 5  Yugoslavia 293 6th  United States 286 7th  Sweden 146 8th  Canada 90 9  Norway 54 10  Italy 21st 11  Soviet Union 19th

Season course

Before the season

General:

• A three-day meeting of the Alpine Racing Committee with 150 delegates and FIS President Marc Hodler at the helm, held from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Kitzbühel on October 14, 1989, decided to keep the "star driver" system, but rejected the suggestion that they should be used before each race to send off. Another suggestion related to the security delegate Sepp Messner, who is to be represented with voting rights in the judges' tribunals from the coming season at men's world cup descents. The jury should now consist of the technical delegate, the referee, the start and finish judge, the course manager, the race director and the security guard. With regard to the glacier races, there was a trend on the part of the World Cup Committee that in the future they should take place on European soil as early as mid-October. However, the FIS board unanimously rejected the inclusion of the glacier races in the World Cup.
• 13 ÖSV technicians traveled from Munich to the USA on November 13th at 6:30 a.m. between Keystone (South Dakota), from, the women's technicians, currently still in preparation at the Naßfeld , followed on November 19th. The season goal of the ÖSV was Nations Cup and individual discipline victories. The first season start (apart from the summer races) in the USA was also a bow to US television.

Men's:

• Marc Girardelli now rode on “Dynastar”, but his previous supplier “Atomic” asked for 200 pairs of racing skis back.
• With the Austrians there was a new hopeful athlete in the 20-year-old Stephan Eberharter , who had a fixed starting place in this discipline due to his victory in last year's giant slalom European Cup. He delivered on December 2nd at the giant slalom in Mont Sainte-Anne with start no. 34 already a surprise when he finished 5th.

Women:

• The season started without Carole Merle (knee injury), Sandra Burn (cross problems) - Ulrike Maier (daughter Melanie was born in August) and Christelle Guignard (she had to “sit out” her doping ban for half a year) were also not there either with it.

Before the start in Park City, problems of a different kind had come up to the ÖSV ladies, because the skis and other equipment (around 2,000 kg) were still stored in Salt Lake City and the customs papers had been lost.

World Cup decisions

Men's:

Total:

• For the first time, with Ole Kristian Furuseth, a Norwegian came to Val-d'Isère as the World Cup leader; he led with 107 points ahead of Bittner (79) and Mader (74).

After the December races, Pirmin Zurbriggen (126) was in front of Furuseth (118) and Bittner (79).

Before the World Cup break: Zurbriggen was clearly ahead with 295 points: Furuseth had 212, Mader 203.

After the races in Veysonnaz, Zurbriggen was unassailable as the overall winner with 312 points, while Furuseth (220) and Mader (203) came in second and third.

The intermediate results before the March races in the other disciplines:

• In the descent, Höflehner led thanks to his intermediate high with 131 before Zurbriggen (92) and Skårdal (84).
• Super-G: Zurbriggen 73, Mader 61, Eriksson 56.
• Giant slalom: Furuseth 88, Mader 86, Strolz 51.
• Slalom: Bittner 110, Furuseth 51, Gstrein 76.

The discipline decisions:

Giant slalom:

• Furuseth defended the ball - although he got 96 points ex aequo with Mader, the number of places decided here (the Norwegian had 2 second places, Mader only one).

Slalom:

• The fourth win of the season (March 4th in Veysonnaz) brought Bittner another slalom ball prematurely - he led with 135 ahead of Furuseth 81 and Gstrein 80.

Super G:

• The title clearly went to Zurbriggen, who also won at the end in Hemsedal, while competitor Mader only finished sixth.

Departure:

• Third place in the first Åre descent was enough for Höflehner to win - he reached the final with 131 points and could have been overtaken by Zurbriggen (92).

Women:

Total:

• Michaela Gerg (133) was ahead of Anita Wachter (103) and Petra Kronberger (98th) at the end of the year. With her giant slalom victory and two third places in Santa Caterina, Kronberger took over the World Cup lead with 245 points ahead of Wachter (228) and Michaela Gerg (199).

Departure:

• After five races (house on January 13th) the order was Michaela Gerg (75) ahead of Kronberger (60).

Before the World Cup break:

Total:

• Kronberger 275, Wachter, 260, Gerg 243.

Departure:

• Gutensohn 110, Kronberger 106 and ex aequo Figini & Gerg 105. Since the further planned departure from Stranda was canceled on March 10th and could not be made up, this was also the final result.

Super G:

• Merle 74, Wolf 63, Gerg 59.

Giant slalom:

• Wachter 120, Roffe 74, Kronberger 68.

Slalom:

• Schneider 100, Strobl 73, Maierhofer 71.

In the overall standings, Michaela Gerg fell significantly behind due to her failure in the "Giant" from Stranda - her deficit on Kronberger was 54 points. But the Salzburg woman drove so well in the other races and her failure in the final slalom was no longer decisive.

Giant slalom:

• 12th place in Stranda was enough for Anita Wachter for the huge ranking, which she now won with 124 points ahead of Kronberger (78) with one race to go.

Super G:

• With her “triple” in the last three Super-Gs, Carole Merle got this rating.

Slalom:

• Schneider, who had been unlucky a few days earlier in Vemdalen, was able to win the final slalom and with it the crystal ball, as Strobl, who was leading after run 1 (and in the discipline classification with 108 points), was canceled.

Race break as well as cancellations and postponements

A practically four-week World Cup break was set from the beginning of February to the beginning of March.

With regard to the envisaged number of races or competitions, this could almost be completed, but various postponements and above all irreversible cancellations (the men's downhill in Val-d'Isère could not be driven anywhere else for "sponsorship reasons") resulted in deviations. Two new World Cup locations for women ( Breil / Brigels - departure on February 3rd - and Candanchú - March 3rd / 4th) did not have a premiere, and the long-standing demand for women’s races in Kitzbühel (January 16), which therefore followed It would have taken place again for the first time in 1961, but could not be realized because of the dangerous slope conditions. Also Jasna (3./4. March) had lived in the men after ten years of a "renaissance".

• Heavy rain prevented the slalom from being held in Park City on November 26th.
• The descent planned for December 9th in Val-d'Isère had to be canceled on November 29th (other information: December 2nd in Mont Sainte-Anne) and could not be held elsewhere due to sponsor reasons. It was still set for December 15th in Val Gardena , but a foehn onset with strong gusts of wind made the event impossible.
• The descent in Saalbach-Hinterglemm programmed for December 21st had to be canceled due to lack of snow or moved to Schladming .
• On December 17th, not only the slalom in Madonna was canceled (heavy rain, gusty wind), also the one for 20./21. The catch-up runs for Saalbach and Val-d'Isère / Gröden planned for December in Schladming were affected.
• The men's giant slalom planned for January 6th in Kranjska Gora was canceled at the beginning of the year due to lack of snow, but not only was the slalom retained, the Madonna slalom that was canceled on December 17th (as a replacement race on January 6th) could also be rescheduled . In contrast, the failed giant slalom was delegated to Lagalp (January 14th) on January 5th, but (after an inspection by FIS safety officer Sepp Messner because the artificial snow slope was too thin) it was given to Alta Badia for the same date.
• For women, the giant slalom in Piancavallo (January 7th) had to be canceled.
• For the third time in a row, the departure from Garmisch-Partenkirchen (January 13) had to be canceled. According to a statement by slope inspector Heinz Krecek on January 3rd, the route could no longer be groomed and the weather forecast indicated no snow for the next few days. In connection with this, the Bad Wiessee slalom had to be canceled, as it was a combined evaluation with "GA-PA" which, according to the FIS statutes, should have been held at the designated locations. On the other hand, Schladming got it on 11/12. January these two races including a combination were awarded.
• The women's super-G planned for January 16 in Kitzbühel was canceled on January 15 by the jury with a 3-2 vote. Some team captains and the planned course setter Günther Hujara were of the opinion that the track was not safe enough and did not meet the requirements of a Super-G. The organizer, who had invested a lot, felt hard hit because it was also the 50th Hahnenkamm event
• Sprint descent in Kitzbühel: On January 17th, following a proposal by ÖSV head trainer Hans Pum, the decision was made to carry out this year's descent in the form of two sprint descents, starting from the Seidlalm over the local mountain.
• There were cancellations on January 17 and 18 for the Lauberhorn races and the giant slalom in Adelboden and for the ladies for the giant slalom in Berchtesgaden (January 23), the downhill in Pfronten (January 27) and the Super scheduled for January 28 -G in Lenggries, so that, for the third time, no World Cup races could take place en suite in Germany. The ladies' races were relocated to Santa Caterina from January 25th to 28th, the Lauberhorn races to Val-d'Isère from January 26th to 28th, and the "giants" from Adelboden to Veysonnaz.
• The women's descent in Santa Caterina had to be canceled after three postponements at noon due to irregular conditions (blowing snow, low-hanging clouds, wind), while heavy snowfalls were responsible for an immediate cancellation for the men in Val-d'Isère. At least one descent with fresh snow was possible on January 27th (this also confirmed the gliding skills of Sieger Höflehner), but the short-term planning of the organizers to give priority to another descent on January 28th instead of the Super-G, was prevented by renewed bad weather - which on the other hand probably meant that the chance of the Super-G was missed. In Santa Caterina, Downhill and Super-G were ridden within a few hours on January 27th. However, the second Val d'Isère descent was made up on January 29th - and the Super-G was also driven in the afternoon.
• The men's Super-G held on January 30th in Les Menuires was the replacement for Megève, where the race was only scheduled for February 4th.
• The cancellation of the women's downhill in Veysonnaz on February 2nd due to snowfall and fog resulted in further changes, as these have now been postponed to February 3rd and 4th and the giant slalom to February 5th.
• The first of the two men's Cortina runs (February 3) served as a replacement for the Chamonix date on February 2. For a reference to the source, please see “Höflehner blows to attack the Tofana”. In »Tiroler Tageszeitung« No. 28 from 3./4. February 1990, page 35; last paragraph
• As early as February 16, the FIS forbade a downhill run in Saalbach because Canada and the USA were still holding the title fights immediately before. Also the one in Jasna for 3./4. March races were canceled due to continuous rain.
• Two weeks before the final, FIS Stranda was commissioned to host the giant slalom that was canceled in Cadanchú, which meant that one more race was on the agenda, but fresh snow led to the cancellation of the descent on March 9th.
• While the women's Cadanchú slalom (as planned by Heinz Krecek) could be made up in Åre, the Stranda departure addendum planned for March 17th was canceled.
• Parallel slaloms for men and women, which would only have counted towards the Nations Cup, had been programmed as a "tradition" for March 18.

Worth mentioning

• With Petra Kronberger , the ÖSV had a World Cup winner again after eleven years - just as this season, when Anita Wachter won the giant slalom on December 3, 1989 in Vail, an eleven-year win for the ÖSV women in this discipline ended (last on March 17, 1978 by Annemarie Moser-Pröll in Arosa ).
• The slalom won by Armin Bittner in Thredbo (August 12) was the longest World Cup slalom since February 28, 1970 in Whistler , with a winning time of 121.93 seconds , when Alain Penz had won in 127.73 seconds.
• The journey of the DSV men's team from training in Colorado to Park City turned into a 22-hour torture triggered by fog, because the team initially came from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, where they had to fly back after three hours in bed before the second attempt worked. Most of all, there was nothing to eat at that time, except peanuts.
• At the giant slalom in Waterville Valley (November 30th) Lars-Börje Eriksson improved from 15th to 2nd place (please refer to the source for Urs Kälin's maiden win with the title “Nobody Kälin ...”)
• On December 2nd, the Swiss men experienced their worst result so far in a World Cup giant slalom: none of the SSV teams made it into the ranking in Mont Sainte-Anne .
• At the slalom of Mont Sainte-Anne (December 3rd) the organizer and the runners had big problems. The race started half an hour late (that's why there were stressful moments after the end of the race, because the athletes still had to get the booked machines to Europe), and the competition was on the edge of regularity, low start numbers had a clear advantage - and after the first run sat Armin Bittner one with a petition for the termination; even the two winners Stangassinger and Gstrein had signed this appeal.
• The men's downhill on January 20 in Kitzbühel was the first downhill in World Cup history to be run in two runs and referred to as the "sprint downhill". Because of fresh snow it was not possible to drive on the entire original route and so-called “star drivers” were let off the start at the beginning. Contrary to later “sprint descents”, however, the runners who did not make it into the top 30 after the first run were also allowed to run in the second run - and 52 runners made it into the classification. The winner Skårdal won by just 0.02 seconds - and he was not first in either of the two runs (in the first run he was 0.16 seconds behind Höflehner, in the second he was only fourth with 0.38 seconds. behind Zurbriggen).
• At the Super-G in Val-d'Isère (January 29), the start numbers after 15 were on the podium. For the time being, Furuseth had led before Skardal, Günther Mader (No. 16) replaced the Norwegian duo and was ousted by Armand Schiele (No. 22), but Steve Locher (No. 45) was again 0.03 seconds faster - and the first 18 of the ranking were within a second. For a reference to the source, please see “Helmut Höflehnr's second downhill triumph”. In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 24 of January 30, 1990, page 9
• The Super G victory by Günther Mader in Les Menuires was the second victory of the ÖSV men in this discipline - the first was seven years ago on December 10, 1983 in Val-d'Isère by Hans Enn .
• In Santa Caterina, Sigrid Wolf was thirtieth in the Downhill on January 27th (2.26 seconds behind) and won the Super-G hours later.
• With regard to the men's downhill runs in Cortina, the ÖSV was only able to compete with a reduced line-up due to several cancellations; the quota could not be replenished due to a new FIS rule that only allowed two runners per nation who were not placed in the top 60 of the FIS ranking list.
• With her victory in the downhill in Veysonnaz (February 3), Katharina Gutensohn became the first female skier in the World Cup to win for two nations.
• The organizers of the women's super-Gs in Meribel (February 10th / 11th) brought the artificial snow produced in the higher elevations onto the routes by helicopter at a cost of around DM 171,000.
• The ÖSV women had the necessary luck in their four-fold slalom victory in Vemdalen, because after the first run Vreni Schneider, who was leading with exactly one second, fell in the second run at goal no. 15 because she felt irritated by a gate judge who was holding a torn out inner pole in his hand - and the SSV protest was rejected.
• The final races in Sweden were accompanied by breakdowns and, due to the lack of interest of the local population (they preferred the Nordic competitions), they took place practically in camera. With regard to the German-speaking TV audience, the competitions were broadcast throughout the public broadcasters (mostly live) and Eurosport also had titles such as “Ski Report” and “Alpine Skisport” on the program.

Injuries

General: Failures before the start of the season or in training sessions were reported as follows: Michael Mair had torn the ligaments in his left knee on the Saslong , Tamara McKinney had broken a leg for the third time in Saas-Fee , Martin Hangl broke his wrist in Zermatt , Markus Wasmeier sustained a knee injury when he fell in the penultimate goal of the Waterville “giant”. Richard Pramotton and Blanca Fernández Ochoa were also absent due to injuries.

Men's:

• Helmut Mayer fell on November 29th in the very last training session for the slalom in Waterville Valley and tore a cruciate ligament and collateral ligament in his right knee; he became the well-known American specialist Dr. Steedman brought to Reno .
• Alberto Tomba suffered a simple fracture of his left collarbone in a fall in the Super-G in Val-d'Isère (December 10th), which meant a three-week break.
• At the Super-G in Sestriere (December 12), Marc Girardelli fell at high speed into the safety net, which did not withstand the impact and tore it apart. "Gira" was transported to the hospital by helicopter with bruises in the chest, hips and tailbone - a two-week break was suspected. "Girar" took part in the slalom in Kranjska Gora, but this turned out to be counterproductive. The break lasted longer than planned, because he had to go to Feldkirch Hospital for further treatment of the consequences of the injury, where a blood clot in his hip (caused by a 10 cm muscle tear) was removed. Three days were named for his hospital stay. Ultimately, however, the Luxembourger by choice announced in Munich that he would end the season early and plan for the coming ski winter at his place of residence in the Appenzell region.
• A fall of Giorgio Piantanida on December 16 on the Val Gardena descent in the Camel Humps was life-threatening. After cardiac arrest and brief loss of consciousness, he threatened to choke on his own tongue. In addition to a concussion, a shoulder fracture and three broken ribs were found in the Bolzano hospital . According to a report over Christmas, Piantanida was able to leave the intensive care unit.

Women:

• Vreni Schneider refrained from starting the departure in Steamboat because of a capsule expansion suffered during training. She even had to undergo an arthroscopy that was supposed to be done on her return to Switzerland, which meant a two to three week absence.

Premier victories

Men's:

• Urs Kälin won his first victory in the giant slalom in Waterville Valley on November 30, 1989 . He had never won a European Cup race, not even a Swiss title, before. A tenth place in the Super-G in Whistler on February 26, 1989 was his best ever World Cup result. After the first run he was third.
• December 3, 1989 brought Thomas Stangassinger his first victory in the Mont Sainte-Anne slalom . However, there were some anomalies in this race, which are included in the article "Worth mentioning".
• Niklas Henning was successful once on December 10, 1989 at Super-G in Val-d'Isère , with the starting number. 35 wore.
• Richard Kröll wore an equally high starting number, namely 34, in his first victory on January 14, 1990 at the giant slalom in Alta Badia , where he led a curious quadruple victory for his team, as there was an ex-aequo- Placement between Nierlich and Strolz.
• Atle Skårdal combined his first victory on January 20th with the premiere of the “Sprint Downhill” in Kitzbühel.
• Again at a Super-G in Val-d'Isère on January 29, 1990, Steve Locher took his first win, with start no. 46 benefited from the improving conditions.
• In his hometown of Cortina d'Ampezzo , Kristian Ghedina won the first time on February 3, 1990 , the first of his 12 victories in World Cup descents and after a one-year break (most recently Michael Mair on January 23, 1988 with a triple victory in Leukerbad ) again for made an Italian men's victory in a downhill.
• On March 3, 1990, Fredrik Nyberg celebrated his first of seven World Cup victories with the giant slalom victory in Veysonnaz - and with a total of six victories in the giant slalom he is the second best Swede in this discipline (behind Ingemar Stenmark's unrivaled 46 successes).

Women:

• Nathalie Bouvier was able to achieve her first victory in the giant slalom in Park City (with two fastest times) on November 24, 1989 , with her starting number. 40 represents the highest number of winners in a women's giant slalom to date (March 2019). In addition, the 25 World Cup points achieved by the French woman mean her very first points.
• For Claudia Strobl this was the case on December 10, 1989 in the slalom in Steamboat Springs .
• The same was true for Veronika Šarec on January 14, 1990 in the slalom in Haus im Ennstal .
• In the end, Karin Buder was able to perpetuate herself in the winners' lists on March 11, 1990 at the slalom in Stranda ; however, not quite three years later, she achieved even greater success with slalom world championship gold in Morioka-Shizukuishi .

Race outside the World Cup

• On October 26th for the women and on October 28th for the men, a "Glacier Cup '89" was held in Sölden from 11 a.m. on the Rettenbachferner in the form of a parallel slalom. In the women’s category , Ingrid Salvenmoser won ahead of Mateja Svet , Elisabeth Kirchler and Katjuša Pušnik . The men's victory went to Pirmin Zurbriggen ahead of Bernhard Gstrein . Paul Accola finished third without a fight because Rudi Nierlich sustained a hand injury during his duel with Zurbriggen. Marc Girardelli was absent, he was training on the Stilfserjoch.
• The World Cup break was used for the national championships. At the start of the ÖSV in Lech (giant slalom) and Warth (slalom) there was a four-fold Tyrolean victory in the men's giant slalom on February 23, with Richard Kröll as first, the women's slalom was won by Claudia Strobl. Günther Mader was slalom champion, but the South Tyrolean Oswald Tötsch was 0.20 seconds faster. Anita Wachter won the "giant" title.

Resignations

Several greats from the alpine skiing scene resigned, namely Pirmin Zurbriggen and Maria Walliser , but Paul Frommelt also said goodbye. Zurbriggen, who won the overall World Cup again, contested his last race on March 17th in the second Åre downhill run (11th place), his last victory shortly before, at the Super-G on March 10th in Hemsedal . Frommelt's last race with World Cup points also ended in 11th place, namely the slalom in Sälen on March 12, 1990; his last podium was also his last victory at the season finale two years earlier, when he won the slalom in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on March 26, 1988 . For Maria Walliser, 7th place in the Super-G of Åre was the last result in the World Cup prizes on March 16, her last victory was that on January 13, 1990 in the downhill in Haus im Ennstal . Before she turned 22, the current slalom world champion Mateja Svet resigned . It announced this decision on June 2, 1990 in Ljubljana .

Further resignations: Claudine Emonet , Brigitte Gadient , Beatrice Gafner , Ida Ladstätter , Camilla Nilsson , Brigitte Oertli , Catherine Quittet , Karen Percy or Grega Benedik , Didier Bouvet , Lars-Börje Eriksson , Felix McGrath , Gustav Oehrli , Oswald Tötsch .

Web links

World Cup men

• FIS database - results
• FIS database - tables

World Cup women

• FIS database - results
• FIS database - tables

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ "FIS rejects races on glaciers". In »Tiroler Tageszeitung« No. 290 from 16./17. December 1989, page 19; POS .: Column 5, penultimate title
3. ↑ "ÖSV men's team overseas today". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 262 of November 13, 1989, page 13
4. ↑ "Nations Cup and Individual Discipline as Season Goal". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 262 of November 13, 1989, page 19
5. ↑ Glossary: ​​“On the way with the ski circus” with the title “Beer & Skier” in “Kronenzeitung” of November 23, 1989, page 8 from the back; right
6. ↑ "There has never been more winner!" In "Kronenzeitung" of November 23, 1989, page 8 from the back
7. ↑ “Finally a sense of achievement. 'Flawless runs for the first time' ". In "Salzburger Nachrichten" No. 280 of December 4, 1989, page 19
8. ↑ "This year it's finally time for 'Licht ins Dunkel'" in "Kronenzeitung" of November 24, 1989, pages 7 and 6 from the back
9. ^ "Bad start" in "Kronenzeitung" of November 22, 1989, page 6 from the back
10. ^ "RTL victory to Nathalie Bouvier". In "Salzburger Nachrichten" No. 273 of November 25, 1989, page 32
11. ↑ "Maders Pech - Heartbeat Finals to Furuseth". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 53 of March 5, 1990, page 19; POS .: second big heading
12. ↑ "ÖSV women attacked - Schneider won". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 65 of March 19, 1990, page 17
13. ↑ "'Only Vreni drives aggressively like a man!'" In "Kronenzeitung" of November 27, 1989, pages 9 and 8 from the back
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15. ^ "First departure in danger" in "Kronenzeitung" of November 29, 1989, page 9 from the back
16. ^ Box on the left: "Val d'Isère canceled" in "Kronenzeitung" of November 30, 1989, page 10 from the back
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21. ↑ "Tombas Show". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 291 of December 18, 1989, page 17; POS .: box lower left
22. ↑ “Another postponement in the World Cup program”. In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 1 of January 2, 1990, page 14; POS .: Column 1, below
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27. ↑ "Garmisch canceled. Now Schladming ". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 3 of January 4, 1990, page 16; POS .: middle box
28. ↑ "Cancellation - Scandal at the beginning of the anniversary". In »Tiroler Tageszeitung« No. 12 of January 16, 1990, page 11
29. ↑ "Now two sprint runs in Kitzbühel". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 145 of January 18, 1990, page 15
30. ↑ "World Cup Calendar: This is how it goes on". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 14 of January 18, 1990, page 15; POS .: columns 1 and 2
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33. ↑ "Höflehner succeeded in taking revenge for Kitzbühel" and "Waiting in vain for the downhill elite". In »Tiroler Tageszeitung« No. 23 of January 29, 1990, page 14
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38. ↑ "Fresh snow led to the relocation". In »Tiroler Tageszeitung« No. 58 from 10./11. March 1990, page 42
39. ↑ Gloss: “On the way with the ski circus” with the title “Short visit from the 'King'” in “Kronenzeitung” of November 24, 1989, page 7 from the back
40. ↑ “First, second, fifth - total triumph. Double winners had already voted for cancellation ”in“ Kronenzeitung ”of December 4, 1989, pages 7, 6 from the back
41. ↑ Victory in the "race by installments" missed by the blink of an eye! In: Kronen-Zeitung of January 21, 1990
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45. ↑ "Petra Kronberger expanded the World Cup tour". In "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 35 of February 12, 1990, page 19
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