2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Super-G
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The women's super-G in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup included eight events, including the final. The original schedule called for nine events, but a scheduled downhill at St. Anton on 14 January was converted to a super-G due to the inability to hold pre-race practice runs on either of the two days prior to the event. A later super-G at Cortina was converted into a downhill to restore the original schedule balance, but then a downhill at
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on 25 February had to be delayed a day due to fog and dangerous course conditions, and the super-G previously scheduled for that day was cancelled and not rescheduled. After seven events, there had been seven different race winners from five different countries. The seventh race, in
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, was particularly unusual because it started during a blizzard, but conditions eased for the later starters; the entire podium (all Austrians) had starting positions located after the break taken after the top skiers in the discipline had finished (the first 22 positions). Going into the eighth race (the World Cup final), last season's Super-G runner-up,
Elena Curtoni Elena Curtoni (born 3 February 1991) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. Her sister Irene Curtoni is also a former World Cup racer. Biography Born in Morbegno, Sondrio, Lombardy, she has competed for Italy in five World Championships. ...
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, held a narrow lead in the discipline standings, although the top five (Curtoni,
Lara Gut-Behrami Lara Gut-Behrami (; ; born 27 April 1991) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specializes in the speed events of downhill and Super-G. She won the gold medal in the super-G event at the 2022 Winter Olympic ...
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Ragnhild Mowinckel Ragnhild Mowinckel (born 12 September 1992) is a retired Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, representing the club SK Rival. Career Born in Molde, Møre og Romsdal, Mowinckel won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in 2012 in t ...
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Cornelia Hütter Cornelia "Conny" Hütter (born 29 October 1992) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Graz, Styria, Hütter made her World Cup debut in November 2011 in Lake Louise, Canada. She attained her first World Cup podium in December ...
, and defending discipline champion
Federica Brignone Federica Brignone (born 14 July 1990) is an Italian FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer. She competes in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on giant slalom and super-G. Brignone won the World Cup 2019–20 FIS A ...
) were separated by only 44 points. That final was won by Gut-Behrami (with Brignone second and Mowinckel third), who thus became the only two-time winner in Super-G for the season and repeated as discipline champion for the fourth time (along with 2014,
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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 super-G was held in
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on 8 February. The World Cup final took place on Thursday, 16 March in
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. Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup Super-G 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. The only "500-point" skiers in the race were
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of Slovenia and
Petra Vlhová Petra Vlhová (born 13 June 1995) is a Slovak FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of Slalom skiing, slalom and giant slalom. Vlhová won the World Cup overall title in 2021 a ...
of Slovakia, who did not earn points.


Standings


Legend

* * * *DNF = Did Not Finish *DSQ = Disqualified * * * * *


See also

* 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings *
2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall The women's overall competition in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (9 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (11 races). The fifth and sixth d ...
*
2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill The women's downhill in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of nine events, including the final. The original schedule called for eleven events, but the first two races of the season scheduled for 5 and 6 November 2022 in Zermatt/Cerv ...
*
2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom The women's giant slalom in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup included ten events, including the final. The season was scheduled to open in Sölden, Austria on 22 October 2022, but the race was cancelled due to bad weather and rescheduled to ...
*
2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom 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 Snow Queen Trophy, Zagreb on 5 January was cancelled due to hi ...
* World Cup scoring system


References


External links


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