The 2006/07 season of the Alpine Ski World Cup organized by the FIS was supposed to begin on October 28, 2006 in Sölden . Because of the warm weather, the two giant slaloms had to be canceled and were not made up for. The first race took place on November 11, 2006 in Levi , Finland . The season ended on March 18, 2007 on the occasion of the World Cup final in Lenzerheide .
After numerous cancellations and postponements due to weather conditions, 36 races were held for the men (11 downhill runs , 5 super-G , 6 giant slaloms , 10 slaloms and 4 super combinations ). For the women there were 35 races on the program (9 downhill runs, 7 super-G, 7 giant slaloms, 9 slaloms and 3 super combinations). A team competition was held for the second time at the end of the season .
The highlight of the season was the World Ski Championships , which took place from February 3 to 18, 2007 in Åre , Sweden .
World Cup ratings
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Podium placements men
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27./28.01.2007 |
Kitzbühel ( AUT )
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No rating due to the cancellation of the downhill race.
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Podium placements women
Departure
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Team competition
Nations Cup
Season course
particularities
From this season onwards, the FIS intervened with a resolution of May 26, 2006 to the effect that only the official World Cup start list (WCSL) was relevant for the downhill runs, because the regulation that has been in force since 2002/03 to set the starting order according to the results of the downhill training , brought more and more competition with it. In the case of the Super-Gs, which, as is well known, have to run without such training drives, this was already done from 2002/03 - and now this was true both times: The No. 1 in the world started with No. 30, No. 2 with 29 etc. On November 17th, the FIS Board approved the transfer of the Swiss Urs Imboden to the Ski Association of Moldova; with the French Christophe Roux and the South Tyrolean Sascha Gritsch , he formed the first alpine ski team in Moldova. Kilian Albrecht also changed his association ; with the receipt of the citizenship of Bulgaria on December 9th, he was allowed to start for its ski association.
Other incidents
Men's:
- At the slalom on December 18 in Alta Badia , none of the ÖSV runners made it into the ranking. After the first run, only Benjamin Raich remained in the ranking, albeit in 3rd place. The last time the same thing happened on March 21, 1986 in Bromont in a men's slalom for the Austrian riders.
- There was a small incident at the Super-G in Hinterstoder on December 20th: The one with start no. 43 started the race, Daniel Albrecht was on the second best intermediate time when he was hindered by a piste worker. The Swiss took after starting no. 63 a restart and was able to take 12th place.
- Rainer Schönfelder came into the headlines (especially on the boulevard) when he was spotted skiing naked on a slope next to the closed piste in Wengen on January 10th without training.
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Mario Matt won the super combined in Wengen (January 14th), although he was only 34th after the first part, the downhill. However, he was able to start first because he did not start and took advantage of this advantage.
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Fritz Strobl also made headlines alongside skiing, as he received a gold award from the record industry for selling 15,000 singles of his song "Genie auf die Ski" ("I am Mozart's mousetrap") and took second place in the "Austria Top 40" -Single charts. Actually, this song was only intended as a publicity stunt by a sponsor of the ÖSV (“Iglo”). - Disguised as Mozart, he celebrated his farewell tour at his last career race on Lenzerheide.
Women:
- Over the entire season, the rather reduced (only two or three starters) and high-numbered Swiss team of technicians (as in the previous season) suffered significant defeats: In the slaloms, there was only a strong one on February 25 in the Sierra Nevada Sign of life, as Aline Bonjour , this with start no. 38, took 5th place (and Sandra Gini came in tenth with no.34 , plus Rabea Grand in 25th place), in Zwiesel Bonjour came in eighteenth - in the other previous races none had made it into the classification ( Aïta Camastral had qualified twice for the second run, but not finished it). A similar picture emerged in the giant slaloms, in which only in Aspen the ranks 25, 26 and 29 for Fränzi Aufdenblatten , who with start no. Jessica Pünchera and Rabea Grand entered the race in 61 and Aufdenblatten ranked 26th in Zwiesel who were positives. Nobody could qualify for the two finalis.
- After practically two years of injury-related absence, Maria Riesch returned fully to racing and was able to win the first downhill of the season (December 1st in Lake Louise).
- At the Super-G on the Reiteralm (December 17th) Martina Schild (although already starting the race with start number 3 ) prevented the ÖSV team from being successful seven times.
- The slalom on December 29th in Semmering and the one on January 4th in Zagreb were night slalom.
- At the giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo (January 21) the visibility changed significantly in the first run in favor of later start numbers , so that Karen Putzer took the lead with No. 24, but also achieved the best time in the second run.
- On March 2nd, Nicole Hosp was able to win the Super Combined in Tarvisio (Tarvisio) from downhill rank 19 (net 17) with a great slalom performance.
Statistical
Renate Götschl achieved her 17th World Cup victory in this discipline in the Super-G on March 4th in Tarvisio, overtaking Katja Seizinger , who had previously led this ranking with 16 victories.
Cancellations, postponements
- The whole season opener in Sölden fell victim to the bad weather conditions. Due to the regulations that existed until 2018, there were no substitute races because this was not intended for the starting competition.
- The first women's Super-G on January 27th in San Sicario was Altenmarkt's replacement race .
Injuries
Men's:
- On the morning of November 10th, Fredrik Nyberg suffered a knee dislocation while training at the Reiteralm; During a two-hour operation at the UKH Salzburg, it was found that five ligaments were torn. For the Swedish giant slalom and Super-G specialist, the season was practically over before it even began.
- Even Stephan Görgl had after a write off on December 8 by a suffered at the Reiteralm in training injury the season.
- A ligament injury in his right knee on January 29th, one day before his 28th birthday, forced Davide Simoncelli to end the season prematurely.
- On February 17th, Giorgio Rocca was informed that he would be out for the rest of the season because he would undergo an operation on his right knee due to persistent complaints.
Women:
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María José Rienda sustained a torn cruciate ligament and an internal ligament tear in her right knee in a fall while training in Colorado; For them, too, the season was over.
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Lindsey Kildow ended the season prematurely on February 22nd: she injured her knee in a training fall at the World Championships in Åre .
- Tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and the inner ligament in the left knee, the inner ligament in the right knee - that was the bad diagnosis for the Swiss downhill talent Dominique Gisin on February 28 after a fall in the first training session in Tarvisio, in which the runner hit the Safety nets was catapulted.
- A chipped ankle on March 1st while training in the Fassa Valley in Trentino forced Denise Karbon to end the season prematurely.
- Two people were injured during training sessions on Lenzerheide on March 13 : Monika Dumermuth suffered a tear in the meniscus in her right knee and was transported to the Chur hospital . Tina Weirather had a hard fall. In the clinic of Dr. Christian Schenk in Schruns , where the two-time junior world champion was flown, diagnosed a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament and the inner ligament, as well as a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
- Renate Götschl underwent the postponed operation on her right leg in Schruns on March 17th. During the training fall on March 1st in Tarvisio, she broke the outer tibial head and chipped cartilage.
Premier victories
Men's:
- With start no. 1 also came first on November 26th in the Super-G of Lake Louise John Kucera .
- Not only first victory for André Myhrer at the slalom in Beaver Creek (December 3), but also first podium for Michael Janyk in second place and Felix Neureuther in third place.
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Steven Nyman landed his first victory on the downhill in Val Gardena . As a forerunner, Kristian Ghedina officially resigned from the previous year.
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Marc Berthod also set other records with his first win. Above all, by giving him a race with two rounds, etc. between the slalom in Adelboden , a successful race to catch up: Only with start number anyway. 60 started and after the first run, 2.76 seconds behind the leader Markus Larsson, he was in 27th place, but thanks to changing conditions (slower piste and poor visibility) he was in first place. He also finished an over 103 races without victory for the Swiss men (last victory by Didier Cuche on January 30, 2004 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ). This was also the first World Cup slalom victory for the “swiss-ski” men since Didier Plaschy in November / December 1999.
- Sweden's young star Jens Byggmark won that of Kitzbühel in only his eighth World Cup slalom and twice after the next. In addition, these two slaloms took place on the finish slope of the descent, as the original route (Ganslernhang) was impassable - just as the descent itself could not take place due to the heavy rain of the last few days, which is why this "emergency program" was decided.
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Andrej Jerman not only won his personal first World Cup victory on the replacement downhill run for Kitzbühel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but also the first in the downhill run for the Slovenian Association.
Women:
World Cup decisions
Men's
Overall World Cup:
Since co-favorite Bode Miller soon proved to be too inconsistent, especially in the slalom, a three-way battle between Svindal, Raich and Cuche developed, in the end it was just a duel between Svindal and Raich, which after Svindal with three victories in the final, an unbelievable comeback was achieved, which was ultimately decided in the last race of the season. After the victory in the super combined in Kvitfjell (March 9th), the Pitztal appeared with a 117 point lead over the Norwegian. But then Cuche took third place after the Kvitfjell Super-G (both Raich and Svindal were eliminated - the intermediate result was Raich 1.055, Cuche 963, Svindal 952). After the downhill and Super-G in the final, the situation had changed, Raich was very close with 1,155 points ahead of Svindal (1,152); Cuche (1,048) was still in the game, but his deficit hardly meant that overall victory was expected.
The preliminary decision in favor of Svindal was undoubtedly already made in the giant slalom: Already with start no. 1 Raich was eliminated in the first run, the Norwegian succeeded (after the first run in second place behind Massimiliano Blardone , but only 0.01 seconds behind) the victory. He was now in the lead with 1,252 points, 97 points ahead. Nevertheless, the tension did not break in the final slalom, in which Svindal had to make it into the first 15. This time Raich was in the lead after the first run, with 12th place Svindal would have “fulfilled his mission”, but he did not succeed in an optimal second run, he had fallen behind four runners started before him and could not have increased his points account. But the Swede Markus Larsson , who appeared immediately after him, classified behind him. Thus, most of the tension (it was still about the Slalom World Cup) was gone, because Svindal was undeniably close to the points. Raich won the slalom, but Svindal received 16 points for his 15th place and was World Cup winner with 1268 points ahead of Raich with 1255 points. This lead of 13 points was the narrowest relative lead ever achieved for the men (the second had 98.97% of the winner's points), but two years later it was clearly undercut by the same protagonists (2 points, 99.8% ).
Downhill:
With his victory in Kvitfjell (March 10th), Didier Cuche, who was already number 1 on the “World Cup starting list” (and therefore started at No. 30), won the “small crystal ball”. The race was disrupted due to heavy fog, had started with several postponements and after 11 runners there was a longer interruption, so that with start no. 12 ( Hans Grugger ) there was practically a "restart".
Super-G:
Bode Miller started with 14th place, with two wins and a seventh and fourth place, he was relatively well ahead of Didier Cuche. Although he was in the top ten, the series 9-4-9-3-6 hardly brought him any “big points”. After the first two races, John Kucera was in the lead with 160 points, but with ranks 29 and twice 15, only 34 more points were left. Mario Scheiber experienced a trough with ranks 2, 21, a retirement, again rank 2 and finally rank 13. Aksel Lund Svindal was only able to catch up with the victory in the final, which had brought him a lot for the overall World Cup. The long-time dominator in this discipline, Hermann Maier, was also never able to ride around the “little ball”. He had been disqualified as fifth in Val Gardena due to a peat error; more than this would have brought him to 222 points and thus rank 2 in his other ranks (4, 3, 5, 12), but would not have been possible.
Giant slalom:
With his failure in the final, Raich, who was in the lead with 319 points at the time, missed the chance for the third discipline ball en suite. His two remaining competitors in the points campaign (Svindal 316; Blardone 300) passed him.
Slalom: A
small consolation for Benjamin Raich was to have defeated the Tyrolean team-mate Mario Matt by five points with his final victory , with the latter taking second place 0.97 seconds behind.
Combination:
They were actually all super combinations, with the slaloms each having two slaloms (Beaver Creek, Wengen) with a descent and twice each with a super G. With a win, third, sixth and eighth place, Svindal had a decisive advantage over Marc Berthod, because he could only take 13 points on the Reiteralm with 18th place; in the other ranks (twice a second, once a ninth) there was almost a stalemate.
Ladies
Overall World Cup:
In the final phase, things got really tight. After the giant slalom in Zwiesel (which was disturbed by fog in Kvitfjell) , Hosp took over the lead from Mancuso thanks to 2nd place (5th place after the lead after run 1) and was 1,263 to 1,244 points ahead of the US girl. The Zwiesel slalom with Marlies Schild's victory (with only 11th place from Hosp and 24th from Mancuso) brought the Salzburg woman to the front (1.302 / Hosp 1.287 / Mancuso 1.251) - and thanks to her surprising top places in the speed competitions, she appeared in the final (place 2 in the downhill, 3rd place in the Super-G), with which she now showed 1,442 points to be the clear favorite (Hosp: 1,372; Mancuso: 1,332 - Götschl with 1,300 points would have had theoretical chances, but she already took them After an operation that was long overdue; see also the article on «Injuries»). But instead of securing the necessary points in her dominant discipline, the slalom, she obviously allowed herself to be over-nervous after finishing 2nd in the first run behind Hosp, an extremely serious mistake threw her back to 19th place and she stayed up her 1,442 points, while the team-mate with Contenance won and got 30 points ahead and (as a newly crowned giant slalom world champion) kept her cool and at the same time secured the discipline ranking (please see the article on giant slalom below). So it was irrelevant that Schild (after finishing 10th in the first run) finished with an acceptable sixth place.
Downhill:
Thanks to second place in Tarvisio (March 3), Renate Götschl (after a fall in training on March 1, which is why she had to do without the super combination, was only made fit through great “physotherapeutic” art ) already the rating. After ranking 19th in the overall and also in the Super-G and 3rd place in the downhill rating of the previous season (although premature termination due to an operation on February 25, 2006), she made a successful comeback.
Super-G:
With six podiums (four of them wins), Renate Götschl proved to be extremely dominant (her failure in the final was bearable). She left San Sicario with 440 points, which was enough in the end. Only Lindsey Kildow would have had a good chance (despite her failure on December 16 at the Reiteralm) with a win, twice rank 2 and once rank 4 (which meant 310 points), but she had to give "where" after the world championships (see please post under «Injuries»). Nicole Hosp was able to keep her chance with the ranks 7-2-2-11 (thus 220 points), but rank 24 on January 28th in San Sicario only brought an increase of seven points. Julia Mancuso was able to win the third Super-G of the season, but too weak a start (positions 35 and 18) and then only twice in 8th place brought her to 171 points up to and including January 28th.
Giant slalom:
Initially, the premier winner Zettel was in the front with her “double pack”, but the Lower Austrian only scored six points in the new year. 125 points after rank 2 at Semmering meant for Niki Hosp that from this point on she was always ahead of Tanja Poutiainen (she was ninth there and had 109 points) - and even after the fall in Cortina (which left her with a black eye) she had 230 to 214 points. It remained a duel, although it got a bit tight in Zwiesel: Poutiainen was in 2nd place after the first run, the Bichlbacherin in 6th; the Finn won, but Hosp was second and stayed ahead with 390 to 374 points. Poutiainen should have placed himself in front of Hosp in the final; after the first run, Hosp was already leading somewhat comfortably with 0.62 seconds before this one; with another fastest time (Poutiainen fell back to 5th place; Kathrin Hölzl reached her first podium with 2nd place) there was no doubt about the success of the world champion. Despite the victory in the Sierra Nevada , Michaela Kirchgasser had practically nothing to say, she only reached 237 points on February 24th.
Slalom:
After Kranjska Gora at the latest, Marlies Schild, who had already been successful five times and now had 560 points, was unassailable.
Combination:
With one win and two third places, Marlies Schild had a better record than Mancuso. The American had traded her deficit with rank 16 on the Reiteralm (after rank 4 in the Super-G, in which Schild was sixth, she lost too much time in the slalom).
End of career
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