36 races were planned for the men (9 downhill runs , 6 super-G , 8 giant slaloms , 9 slaloms , 2 (super) combinations and 2 parallel slaloms ). 37 races were to be held for the women (8 downhill runs, 7 super-G, 9 giant slaloms, 9 slaloms, 2 super-combinations and 2 parallel slaloms). Two races could not be held as planned.
At the end of the season there was a team competition. The parallel slaloms were held under the name City Event in the Munich Olympic Park and in Moscow . The result counted for the overall World Cup and the Slalom World Cup.
The highlight of the season was the Alpine World Ski Championships from February 4 to 17, 2013 in Schladming , the results of which, however, do not count towards the World Cup.
Tina Maze , who was the overall winner seven races before the end of the season, set a new record with 2414 points. The record holder was Hermann Maier with 2000 points in the 1999/2000 season and Lindsey Vonn with 1980 points in the 2011/2012 season for women . With 24 podiums in one season, Maze set another record. Two races before the end of the season, Marcel Hirscher was also the overall winner, as his last remaining competitor, Aksel Lund Svindal, had decided not to start in the slalom. Bad luck for the Norwegian speed specialist was also that both the Super-G (this one after breaking off after ten runners) and the downhill run were canceled. The fact that Svindal dropped out of the first run in the penultimate race, the giant slalom, was insignificant.
No crystal balls of their own were awarded to the winners of the super combination classification this time.
Tina Maze was also close to winning the Downhill World Cup; Due to the cancellation of the final race, she stayed one point behind Lindsey Vonn, who was missing due to injury, so she only got two small balls (in addition to the big ball).
Tina Weirather achieved her first victory in a World Cup (Super-G Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) on March 1, 2013 , making her the first female runner to also win as the daughter of a former World Cup winner.
Nicole Schmidhofer had been dismissed from the ÖSV squad, but she made a successful comeback.
Narrowest podium in World Cup history in a men's downhill
At the descent in Bormio on December 29th, the tightest decision was made when Dominik Paris and Hannes Reichelt took first place together, Aksel Lund Svindal only a hundredth of a second behind in third place, but also fourth-placed Klaus Kröll with only one more A hundredth of a second behind in fourth place.
Injuries
Lindsey Vonn was not only unable to contest the rest of the season after her serious fall in the Super-G at the World Championships, she was also canceled for the coming season.
Exactly the last Super-G of the season brought the injury of Klaus Kröll: The race scheduled for March 14th at 9.30 am only started after several postponements due to fog, snowfall and gusty winds and was repeatedly interrupted; Kröll drove with No. 10 and he was thrown into the safety fences after a jump in poor visibility and broke his left upper arm. Then the race was canceled (it was already 2.30 p.m.). On the part of the DSV and the ÖSV , the starts of Felix Neureuther and Marcel Hirscher (they would have had the numbers 26 and 27; Svindal the 21) had been withdrawn. The prevailing opinion was that the start should not have taken place under these conditions. It was also curious that the jury, together with the technical delegate Gérard Vieville (FRA), had given the runners the decision to carry out the event after the coaches had not given a clear opinion (for example, after the run of No. 1, Gauthier de Tessières , asked about the conditions instead of deciding whether to carry it out or to cancel.). The women's Super-G, which was actually planned for 11.30 a.m. and was accordingly postponed due to the circumstances in the men's race, was canceled in view of all the incidents.