44 races were planned for the men (11 downhill runs , 8 super-G , 9 giant slaloms , 11 slaloms , 3 super combinations , 2 parallel slaloms ), plus a classic combination classification. 40 races were to be held for women (9 downhill runs, 7 super-G, 9 giant slaloms, 10 slaloms, 3 super combinations, 2 parallel slaloms).
The parallel slaloms were held under the name City Event . The results counted for the overall World Cup, but not for a discipline ranking. After the successful World Cup premiere of the City Event last year, two such races were to be held for the first time this season, but the City Event on New Years Day in Munich had to be canceled due to the weather. As in previous years, a team competition was on the program for the World Cup final .
Since the slaloms for women and men in Levi were canceled, these were on 20./21. December in Flachau , both of which were held as night sessions (start of the first run at 3:30 p.m.).
The women's races in Soldeu were swapped; instead of the giant slalom, the slalom was driven first.
Other events
The night races were the women's slalom (start at 3 p.m.) and the men's slalom (start at 2.30 p.m.) in Zagreb and, traditionally, the men's slalom in Schladming (start at 5.45 p.m.).
Premier victories
Men's:
Sandro Viletta achieved his first and only victory in a World Cup race on December 3rd at the Super-G in Beaver Creek .
In the “prestigious” slalom on the Ganslernhang in Kitzbühel (January 22nd) the now 31-year-old Cristian Deville achieved his first (and only) victory.
Kjetil Jansrud (Olympic silver 2010), better known from the giant slalom, confirmed his development to a "speed driver" with his maiden victory in the Super-G in Kvitfjell on March 4th.
Women:
The combined world champion Anna Fenninger drove with start no. 16 at the giant slalom in Lienz on December 28th from 6th place to her first victory.
Erin Mielzynski delivered a surprise at the slalom in March snow in Ofterschwang (March 4th) (start number 24) when she achieved her first and only victory as fifth after the first run (and thus for the first time since Betsy Clifford on March 21st). Won a women's slalom for Canada on January 1, 1971).
Marcel Hirscher won two "World Cup balls" for the first time in his career and practically on the same day (March 17th): For the time being, the giant slalom, where he overtook his competitor Beat Feuz by 25 points, and the Swiss man lost in the previous day's super G (at the same time 3rd place for Hirscher) was (s) very decisive. Since Feuz announced due to the deficit that he would not start in the final slalom, the “big ball” also went to Salzburg, with which, after Benjamin Raich, the overall men's World Cup victory in 2005/06 was won by an Austria.
Lindsey Vonn achieved a new season record for women with 1980 points and exceeded the previous record held by Janica Kostelić by ten points. However , she narrowly missed Hermann Maier's all-time record (2000 points in the 1999/2000 season) because she had two mishaps in the final races in Schladming (mistake in Super-G and lost stick in the second round of the slalom).