The 2001/02 season of the Alpine Ski World Cup organized by the FIS began on October 27, 2001 in Sölden and ended on March 10, 2002 on the occasion of the World Cup finals in Altenmarkt and Flachau . 33 races were held for the men (10 downhill runs , 6 super-G , 8 giant slaloms , 9 slaloms ). For women there were 32 races (9 downhill runs, 5 super-G, 9 giant slaloms, 9 slaloms). There were also two combination evaluations.
The highlight of the season was the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City .
World Cup ratings
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Super G
Giant slalom
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combination
Podium placements men
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Super G
Giant slalom
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Podium placements women
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Giant slalom
slalom
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Nations Cup
Season course
Régine Cavagnoud dies in an accident
The French Super G world champion Régine Cavagnoud , who had finished third in the first race of the season, the giant slalom in Sölden two days earlier , collided with the German European Cup coach Markus Anwander on October 29 during downhill training on the Pitztal Glacier; both suffered severe head injuries and were taken to the Innsbruck University Clinic, where Cavagnoud died on October 31.
Injuries
- Even before the start of the season, namely on the evening of August 24, 2001, Hermann Maier had a traffic accident when he was driving home from the training camp in Obertauern on his motorcycle while bypassing Radstadt. He collided with a car driven by a pensioner from Munich and suffered a broken leg and was operated on for seven hours in the Salzburg hospital. This accident meant for the Flachau the escape of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City; he was only able to compete in World Cup races again in mid-January 2003.
- On November 18, Hannes Trinkl suffered an injury in a fall while skiing on the Reiteralm (broken frontal bone, whiplash).
- Just one day later, on November 19, the Austrian Rainer Salzgeber was caught in a qualifying race in Loveland , who suffered a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee and a collateral ligament, which triggered his resignation.
- The law of the series continued on November 20, when the German downhill bronze winner from the world championship in St. Anton Florian Eckert suffered a broken fracture of the right shin head in a training fall on the Reiteralm.
- On December 8, 2001, the Swiss Silvano Beltrametti had a serious accident on the descent in Val-d'Isère : Starting with No. 14, he fell and fell into the demarcation nets. The edge angle of his skis was so unfortunate that the steel edges cut through the nets and he was not caught, but rather thrown against a tree trunk in the adjacent forest. He suffered such back injuries that triggered paralysis and henceforth confined him to a wheelchair.
- On January 15, 2002, the Austrian runner Josef Strobl fell during his first training session on the Streif am Hahnenkamm in the target slope compression: his injuries were: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, torn capsule and collateral ligament, meniscus damage, bone splintering in the left knee.
- At the Hahnenkamm Slalom on January 20, 2002, the Austrian slalom world champion Mario Matt fell while running in for the first run and suffered a shoulder dislocation (rupture of the shoulder, capsule and rupture of all ligaments); he still drove the first round and finished 9th, but then he had to give up - and the injury meant that he could not take part in the Olympic Games. The Austrian Thomas Sykora clearly missed the "30 finals" with rank 43 and announced his retirement.
- Renate Götschl came on March 2nd, she wore the start number. 15, fell on the descent in Lenzerheide: Conclusion 6 months break after various torn ligaments, meniscus injury in the left knee, fibula fracture, elbow injuries (this was the only theoretically possible chance of winning the Super-G rating, in which she participated 210 points in second place behind Hilde Gerg with 295, passé).
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Stefanie Schuster , who announced her resignation on March 5th and completed it two days later with 5th place in the final Super-G, suffered serious injuries at the end of her career (cruciate ligament and collateral ligament tear in the left knee and bone injury). She fell after a tailor while training for the downhill run at the Austrian championships on the calf hole slope in Zauchensee; with this she completed her 14th operation (with Dr. Christian Schenk).
Premier victories
Frédéric Covili in Sölden on October 28th and Ivica Kostelić (he was previously known as the "little brother of Janica") on November 25th in Aspen with their first World Cup victories also won the giant slalom and slalom ratings. Covili was also the first Frenchman since Patrick Russel in 1971 to win another “small ball” in the giant slalom. Jean-Pierre Vidal , who won Olympic gold just a few weeks later, won on December 22nd with start number. 17 the slalom in Kranjska Gora . Christian Greber's first and only victory came on December 28th on the downhill in Bormio .
For Sylviane Berthod , too , victory on December 21 at the downhill run in St. Moritz was her only success. It was similar with her compatriot Lilian Kummer , who as an outsider (start number 22) achieved her only victory in the giant slalom on the Hochstein in Lienz on December 28th, averting a severe defeat for the “swiss-ski” women (the next placed was Rey-Bellet in 21st place; winner Sonja Nef was eliminated in the first run). Marlies Oester shared her victory in the slalom in Berchtesgaden on January 20th (in her 57th slalom world cup race) with Kristina Koznick (it should also be the only victory for Oester). With a third and second place in the two previous giant slaloms, Stina Hofgård Nilsen almost indicated her first victory, which she (as the only one of her career) won in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 27th - and at the same time there was a premiere because it was a double victory for the Norwegian women for the first time.
Worth mentioning
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Copper Mountain took over on 21/22 November the women's technical races planned in Aspen.
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Ivica Kostelić won the slalom in Aspen on November 25th with the highest starting number to date (after the end of the 2018/19 season), namely 64, which replaced Mario Matt's number 47 at the slalom in Kitzbühel on January 23, 2000 .
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Thomas Sykora started this Aspen Slalom in a World Cup race for the first time in 1,350 days after his injury, but retired in the first run; the next day he finished 23rd.
- The slalom on December 10, 2001 in Madonna di Campiglio was a night slalom.
- On January 25, 2002, the Austrian runner Florian Seer , who had participated in the night slalom in Schladming on January 22 (failure in the first run), went public and announced that he had a tumor in the upper lumbar vertebrae (which had been around for 10 years The growing tumor had already completely filled the spine; only 1 mm was left for the nerves and there was a risk of paraplegia); the operation took place on January 29; after his comeback he could no longer qualify for the A-Team and he resigned on February 26, 2004.
- The men's Super-G on January 27, 2002 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with 63 registered runners was after the fall of start no. 37, the Austrian Christoph Alster , canceled; the result was assessed. Alster had fallen, which was probably also a result of the rain.
- The women's downhill run in Åre on February 2, 2002 was a "sprint run". Renate Götschl had laid the cornerstone for her World Cup victory with the fastest running time in the first run and the third-best running time in the second run was enough for her to win. The best runner in the second run, Isolde Kostner , was 0.96 seconds behind after the first run.
World Cup decisions
Men's
Overall World Cup:
After the January races, Stephan Eberharter already had 1,192 points ahead of Kjetil André Aamodt , with 1,192 points , followed by Bode Miller (820), Didier Cuche (766) and Fritz Strobl (562). Since Aamodt with a view to the Olympics to participate in the 2./3. Eberharter, who won both the downhill and the giant slalom, scored another 200 points. After his third place in the Super-G in Kvitfjell on March 3, Stephan Eberharter was the overall winner - he had 1,492 points, the runner-up Kjetil André Aamodt was fifth in this race and would have been ahead of the (with 960 points) four races in the final can only get a maximum of 1,360 points. Didier Cuche finished tenth and appeared to be third in the intermediate ranking (904 points). In all of his 27 season starts, Eberharter was never worse than ninth (twice), but was on the podium twenty times (eleven wins).
Downhill:
Eberharter was already fixed with 670 points after the Kitzbühel victory, as Fritz Strobl (430 points) could only have got 630 points on the two remaining downhill runs.
Super-G:
Eberharter went into the final with 420 points compared to Cuche's 326. Although the Swiss got the maximum with the victory, 15th place would have been enough for the Zillertal - and it was 4th place.
Giant slalom:
The decision was made in the final: Covili with 426 points still needed 11th place (24 points) to outstrip Raich, who could have achieved a maximum of 449 points with a win. (5th place and 45 points for the French; Raich, who finished second, however, had led after the first run)
Slalom:
Vidal was out of the race after the night slalom in Schladming; Kostelić came to Zauchensee with a 31 point lead over Miller, in which the Croatian gained a lead of 1.35 seconds in the first run and with a controlled drive in the "final" finale (despite catching up with the US-American who was in 8th place) got his first "little ball" of his successful career.
Ladies
Overall:
Michaela Dorfmeister didn't win a single discipline classification, but the sum of all her top positions was decisive. Although she had never made it into the second run in her two runs in the slalom, she was only concerned with combined placements - and her fiercest rivals either failed to score or only slightly in the slalom or were not speed runners. She only officially fixed her overall victory when she won the first race of the season finale, the downhill on March 6th; Curiously, it was Dorfmeister's first downhill win since December 16, 1995 in St. Anton am Arlberg - it now stood at 1,131 points. Theoretically, Sonja Nef (804 points) would be up to then (after Götschl's failure). Hilde Gerg (787), Anja Pärson (724) and Isolde Kostner (641) had to be taken into account, but this has now become obsolete.
Downhill:
In the penultimate race, in which Kostner went with 520 and Dorfmeister with 329 points, the final decision was made, because the Lower Austrian should have achieved a victory (if the South Tyrolean had a “zero”), but she only came in sixth; Rank 10 from Kostner brought her a plus of 177 points.
Super-G:
4th place at the start in Lake Louise , victory in Val-d'Isère , 5th place in St. Moritz and victory in Cortina d'Ampezzo , with 295 points before the final compared to 210 from Renate Götschl and 168 from Alexandra Meissnitzer in the front, was Hilde Gerg 's interim result. And due to the Götschl injury on March 2nd in Lenzerheide , the Lenggrieserin was determined ahead of time as the discipline winner.
Giant slalom:
Before the final, Sonja Nef only had 20 points on Dorfmeister with 474 points, but after the first round she had already outrun all the others and was 1.87 seconds ahead of her rival, and succeeded with confidence (now the second-best run time) the Swiss woman's title defense.
Slalom:
The three-time winner of the season Laure Pequegnot was only able to secure success in the final ; she started with 552 points, 64 points ahead of US runner Koznick, and in what she saw as the “worst case” she should have finished seventh. After the first run she was 1.07 seconds faster than the competitor. Ultimately, she finished fifth, Koznik thirteenth.
Incidents after the end of the season
Two important coaches in the women's team of the ÖSV left the association: head coach Karl Frehsner was again "boss" with the Swiss men (replaced Dieter Bartsch, whose contract was expiring), Mathias Berthold went to the Ski Association of the USA. Herbert Mandl was presented as the new head coach of the ÖSV women on March 22nd, who had been the division trainer for the men’s team (Eberharter, Hermann Maier) for three years and previously the downhill trainer of the women.
End of career
Web links
- World Cup men
- World Cup women
Individual evidence
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↑ "24 hours later the 'Steffinator' struck back" in "Kronen-Zeitung" on January 28, 2002
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^ Double victory on the "Götschl-Berg!" In: Kronen-Zeitung of February 3, 2002.
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↑ "Three weeks as if in quarantine". In: Kronen-Zeitung of March 4, 2002.
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↑ a b Michi and Stephan celebrated with the Fendrich hymn. Subtitle in the yellow box: Stephan's race of the season: Always top ten. In: Kronen-Zeitung of March 11, 2002.
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↑ World record - ex-number 64 is now the slalom king. In: Kronen-Zeitung of March 10, 2002.
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↑ It was a holiday for the new ski queen. In: Kronen-Zeitung of March 7, 2002.
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↑ "The 'iron Karl' goes - Switzerland comeback is fixed" in "Kronen-Zeitung" of March 20, 2002
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^ Box below: "Eberharter coach new women boss" in "Kronen-Zeitung" from March 23, 2002
Stephan Eberharter
Isolde Kostner
Hilde Gerg
Frédéric Covili
Sonja Nef
Ivica Kostelić
Kjetil André Aamodt
Bode Miller
Sami Uotila
Uroš Pavlovčič
Allison Forsyth
