The women's slalom in the
2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 10 events, including one parallel slalom (a city event, which only allows for 16 competitors) and the season finale in
Aspen
Aspen is a common name for certain tree species in the Populus sect. Populus, of the ''Populus'' (poplar) genus.
Species
These species are called aspens:
* ''Populus adenopoda'' – Chinese aspen (China, south of ''P. tremula'')
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, Colorado (USA).
Defending champion
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine skier who has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history (men or women) and is considered one of the greatest alp ...
from the United States won seven of the ten races for the season, podiumed in two more, and clinched the discipline title before the finals -- ultimately winning the season championship by over 250 points; this was Shiffrin's fourth discipline championship in slalom.
Her win enabled Shiffrin to equal the record set by the great 1970s Swedish skier
Ingemar Stenmark
Jan Ingemar Stenmark (; born 18 March 1956) is a Swedish former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer. He is regarded as a legendary skier and one of the most prominent Swedish athletes ever, having won several Oly ...
of winning four World Cup slalom season titles before the age of 22.
The season was interrupted by the
2017 World Ski Championships, which were held from 6–20 February in
St. Moritz
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, Switzerland. The
women's slalom was held on 18 February.
Standings
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*DNF1 = Did Not Finish run 1
*DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1
*DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2
*DNF2 = Did Not Finish run 2
*DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2
*DNS = Did Not Start
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See also
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2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings
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2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall
The women's overall in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 37 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL) hich included one city event and Alpine combined (AC) hich included one super-combined ...
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2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill
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2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G
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2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom
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2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's combined
References
External links
Alpine Skiingat
FIS website
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Women's slalom
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women's slalom discipline titles