The women's slalom in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eleven events, including the final. The original schedule also called for eleven events, but a night slalom at

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on 5 January was cancelled due to high winds and warm weather and not immediately rescheduled. However, a week later (12 January), the race was rescheduled as a second slalom at

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on 28 January, accompanied by a shift of the giant slalom scheduled there that day to

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on 25 January. The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France from 6–19 February 2023. Although the Alpine Skiing branch of the

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(FIS) conducts both the World Cup and the World Championships, the World Championships are organized by nation (a maximum of four skiers is generally permitted per nation), and (after 1970) the results count only for World Championship medals, not for World Cup points. Accordingly, the results in the World Championship are highlighted in blue and shown in this table by ordinal position only in each discipline. The women's slalom was held in

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on 18 February.

Season summary

After setting an all-time World Cup record by finishing in the top 3 in a discipline 30 times without ever recording a race win in that discipline,

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of Switzerland won both the third and fourth slaloms of the year to finally end that streak. However, after the first 8 races,

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of the

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, who had won five of them and finished second in two others, led the season standings by 175 points. Holdener was in second place, and defending discipline champion

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was 20 points further back in third. In the ninth race, Shiffrin finished second by 0.06 seconds, but she clinched the season title in the discipline with a 255-point lead over Holdener and Vlhová with just two races to go. In the next slalom at

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, Sweden, Shiffrin's victory was her 87th World Cup victory, surpassing the all-time record of 86 set by Swedish technical specialist

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in the 1970s-1980s. Meanwhile, Holdener held off Vhlová by 25 points to claim second. The World Cup finals in women's slalom took place on Saturday, 18 March 2023, in

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, which previously hosted the finals in 2019. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, were eligible to compete in the final, and only the top 15 earned World Cup points.

Standings

Legend

* * * *DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2 *DNF1 = Did not finish run 1 *DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1 *DNF2 = Did not finish run 2 *DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2 *DNS2 = Did not start run 2 * * * * *

References

External links

Alpine Skiing
at FIS website {{DEFAULTSORT:2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup - Women's slalom Women's slalom FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women's slalom discipline titles

Season summary

Standings

Legend

See also

References

External links