The 44th

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season began on 24 October 2009, in

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, Austria, and concluded on 14 March 2010, at the World Cup finals in

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, Germany. No World Cup events were scheduled in February because of the

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, Canada; the Olympic alpine events were scheduled for 13–27 February at Whistler Mountain. The overall titles were won by

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of Switzerland and

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of the

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, her third consecutive. The 2010 season also marked the end to a long and successful career for Liechtenstein skier

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. FIS standards require that three events be completed in a discipline for a discipline trophy to be awarded. During this season, there were only three combined races (all super-combined) scheduled for the women. Because the third race was cancelled on 5 March, FIS had to make a decision about whether an official trophy would be awarded for the discipline. Ultimately, FIS decided to award the discipline trophy to the leader after two events,

, giving her four crystal globes for the year (overall, downhill, Super G and combined).

Calendar

Men

Ladies

Nation team event

Men's standings

Overall

Downhill

Super G

Giant slalom

Slalom

Super combined

Ladies' standings

Overall

Downhill

Super G

Giant slalom

Slalom

Super combined

Nations Cup

Overall

Men

Ladies

Footnotes

References

External links

FIS-ski.com
– World Cup standings
Ski Racing.com
- U.S.-based magazine - alpine racing news
U.S. Ski Team.com
- alpine news {{DEFAULTSORT:2009-10 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Skiing World Cup