2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill

2016 Men's downhill World Cup
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The men's downhill competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eleven events, including the season finale in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Two-time discipline champion Aksel Lund Svindal from Norway got off to a fantastic start, winning four of the first five downhills of the season . . . and even winning the downhill run on the Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland for the first time in his career (in his tenth attempt).[1] Unfortunately, in the very next downhill race a week later, at the Streif downhill run in Kitzbühel (where Svindal had won a Super-G two days before), Svindal crashed and suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in his right knee, ending his season.[2] Because of poor visibility and dangerous winds, which already had led the course to be shortened before the race even started, the Streif downhill was stopped after just 30 skiers, the minimum number for the race to be deemed official -- but it already had produced three serious crashes among the best downhillers in the world.[2][3]

However, the surprise winner on the Streif was Peter Fill of Italy, who had started the day 245 points behind Svindal but picked up 100 for the win.[4] After four more downhills, and heading into the finals, Fill and Svindal were tied on points (436) with Italy's Dominik Paris only four points behind.[5] In the finals at St. Moritz, although both skied cautiously, Fill placed tenth, scoring 26 points, but Paris finished nineteenth and failed to score any points (as only the top 15 score at the finals), thus allowing Fill to become the first ever Italian man to win the downhill crystal globe.[6]

Standings

Rank Name
28 Nov 2015
Lake Louise

Canada
4 Dec 2015
Beaver Creek

United States
Italy
29 Dec 2015
Santa Caterina

Italy
16 Jan 2016
Wengen

 Switzerland 
23 Jan 2016
Kitzbühel

Austria
Germany
6 Feb 2016
Jeongseon

South Korea
20 Feb 2016
Chamonix

France
12 Mar 2016
Kvitfjell

Norway
16 Mar 2016
St. Moritz

 Switzerland  		Total
Italy Peter Fill 80 32 50 DNF 29 100 24 50 45 26 26 462
2 Norway  Aksel Lund Svindal 100 100 100 36 100 DNF DNS 436
3 Italy Dominik Paris 36 11 20 0 50 15 20 80 100 100 0 432
Norway  Kjetil Jansrud 29 80 60 4 22 18 14 100 10 45 50 432
5  Switzerland  Beat Feuz DNS 24 80 60 45 60 45 100 414
6 United States Steven Nyman 15 16 29 5 15 DNF 26 60 80 60 80 386
7 France Adrien Théaux 24 26 6 100 36 32 45 32 40 29 0 370
8 France Guillermo Fayed 50 60 80 29 9 10 9 26 50 DNS 323
9  Switzerland  Carlo Janka 45 45 7 22 32 60 5 36 8 20 32 312
10 Austria Hannes Reichelt 13 50 5 80 80 DNF DNF 22 26 0 20 296
11 United States Travis Ganong 60 22 20 14 0 13 40 9 DNS 32 40 250
12 Canada Erik Guay 26 24 45 DNS 18 24 DNF 3 32 15 60 247
Austria Christof Innerhofer 22 36 0 50 45 12 50 10 1 5 16 247
Norway  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 16 15 DNF DNF 16 40 100 DNF 24 36 0 247
15 France Johan Clarey 20 9 24 15 8 50 DNF 16 22 26 45 235
16 Austria Romed Baumann 12 0 15 45 14 22 15 29 11 14 22 199
17 Slovenia Boštjan Kline 7 4 0 9 7 8 80 24 14 8 24 185
18 Austria Vincent Kriechmayr 1 18 36 40 13 36 0 2 5 2 29 182
19 France David Poisson 4 0 0 60 40 29 16 14 3 7 DNS 173
20 France Valentin Giraud Moine 0 DNS 16 8 0 DNS DNF 13 18 80 36 171
21 Canada Manuel Osborne-Paradis 1 0 22 DNF 0 16 10 0 36 50 18 153
22 United States Andrew Weibrecht 7 45 14 DNF 10 20 14 15 13 11 0 149
23 Austria Klaus Kröll 18 3 13 12 60 DNF 1 7 15 16 0 145
24 Austria Otmar Striedinger 3 20 1 13 12 26 3 40 20 DNF 0 138
25 Germany Andreas Sander 0 0 8 26 20 14 32 4 7 22 0 133
References [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNF = Did Not Finish
  • DNS = Did Not Start
  • Updated at 19 March 2016, after all events.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ Associated Press (16 January 2016). "Aksel Lund Svindal captures elusive World Cup downhill win at Lauberhorn". CBC. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b Zaccardi, Nick (23 January 2016). "Aksel Lund Svindal crashes hard, tears ACL". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. ^ Willemsen, Eric (23 January 2016). "Skiing: World Cup leader Svindal blows out knee in downhill crash". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. ^ Associated Press (23 January 2016). "Kitzbuehel races: Peter Fill wins abbreviated Kitzbuehel downhill race". CBC. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  5. ^ AFP (12 March 2016). "Paris wins downhill as Fill misses out". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  6. ^ Hodgetts, Rob (16 March 2016). "FIS Alpine World Cup: Peter Fill wins downhill shootout in St. Moritz". CNN. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lake Louise Men DH (CAN)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  8. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Beaver Creek Men DH (USA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  9. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Val Gardena/Gröden Men DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  10. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Santa Caterina Men DH (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  11. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Wengen Men DH (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  12. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kitzbühel Men DH (AUT)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  13. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Garmisch-Partenkirchen Men DH (GER)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  14. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Jeongseon Men DH (KOR)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  15. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Chamonix Men DH (FRA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  16. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Kvitfjell Men DH (NOR)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  17. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup St. Moritz Men DH (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  18. ^ "CUP STANDINGS - ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP 2016". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.