FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017

Host city	St. Moritz
Country	Switzerland
Nations participating	76
Athletes participating	589
Events	11
Opening ceremony	6 February 2017 (2017-02-06)
Closing ceremony	19 February 2017 (2017-02-19)
Officially opened by	Doris Leuthard
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Alpine skiing at the World Ski Championships 2017
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Team	mixed
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The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 were the 44th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships and were held from 6 to 19 February 2017 at Piz Nair in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The host city was selected at the FIS Congress in South Korea, on 31 May 2012. The other finalists were Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and Åre, Sweden.^[1]

It was the fifth Alpine World Ski Championships at St. Moritz, after 1934, 1948, 1974, and 2003.

Schedule and course information[]

All competitions of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 took place on the St. Moritz home mountain Corviglia.^[2]

Schedule[]

Time

UTC+1[3]

Events calendar^[4]

Events

Event days

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February

Opening and closing ceremonies

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Men

Downhill

12:00

13:30

Slalom

Run 1

09:45

Run 2

13:00

Giant slalom

Run 1

09:45

Run 2

13:30

Alpine combined

Downhill

10:00

Slalom

13:00

Super-G

12:00

Women

Downhill

11:15

Slalom

Run 1

09:45

Run 2

13:00

Giant slalom

Run 1

09:45

Run 2

13:00

Alpine combined

Downhill

10:00

Slalom

13:00

Super-G

12:00

Mixed

Team event

12:00

• The men's downhill, originally scheduled for 11 February, was postponed one day due to adverse weather conditions.

Course information[]

Date	Race	Start elevation	Finish elevation	Vertical drop	Course length	Average gradient
Sun 12 Feb	Downhill – men	2,745 m (9,006 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	705 m (2,313 ft)	2.920 km (1.814 mi)	24.1%
Sun 12 Feb	Downhill – women	2,745 m (9,006 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	705 m (2,313 ft)	2.633 km (1.636 mi)	26.8%
Mon 13 Feb	Downhill – (AC) – men	2,745 m (9,006 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	705 m (2,313 ft)	2.920 km (1.814 mi)	24.1%
Fri 10 Feb	Downhill – (AC) – women	2,590 m (8,497 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	550 m (1,804 ft)	2.059 km (1.279 mi)	26.7%
Wed   8 Feb	Super-G – men	2,640 m (8,661 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	600 m (1,969 ft)	1.920 km (1.193 mi)	31.3%
Tue   7 Feb	Super-G – women	2,590 m (8,497 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	550 m (1,804 ft)	2.059 km (1.279 mi)	26.7%
Fri 17 Feb	Giant slalom – men	2,385 m (7,825 ft)	2,030 m (6,660 ft)	355 m (1,165 ft)
Thu 16 Feb	Giant slalom – women	2,385 m (7,825 ft)	2,030 m (6,660 ft)	355 m (1,165 ft)
Sun 19 Feb	Slalom – men	2,220 m (7,283 ft)	2,030 m (6,660 ft)	190 m (623 ft)
Sat 18 Feb	Slalom – women	2,220 m (7,283 ft)	2,030 m (6,660 ft)	190 m (623 ft)
Mon 13 Feb	Slalom – (AC) – men	2,220 m (7,283 ft)	2,040 m (6,693 ft)	180 m (591 ft)
Fri 10 Feb	Slalom – (AC) – women	2,210 m (7,251 ft)	2,030 m (6,660 ft)	180 m (591 ft)

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria (AUT)	3	4	2	9
2	Switzerland (SUI)*	3	2	2	7
3	France (FRA)	2	0	0	2
4	Canada (CAN)	1	1	1	3
	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
6	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
7	Norway (NOR)	0	1	1	2
8	Liechtenstein (LIE)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
11	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		11	11	11	33

• Host country highlighted.

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[5] details	Beat Feuz   Switzerland	1:38.91	Erik Guay  Canada	1:39.03	Max Franz  Austria	1:39.28
Super-G[6] details	Erik Guay  Canada	1:25.38	Kjetil Jansrud  Norway	1:25.83	Manuel Osborne-Paradis  Canada	1:25.89
Giant slalom[7] details	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	2:13.31	Roland Leitinger  Austria	2:13.56	Leif Kristian Haugen  Norway	2:14.02
Slalom[8] details	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	1:34.75	Manuel Feller  Austria	1:35.43	Felix Neureuther  Germany	1:35.68
Alpine combined[9] details	Luca Aerni   Switzerland	2:26.33	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	2:26.34	Mauro Caviezel   Switzerland	2:26.39

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[10] details	Ilka Štuhec  Slovenia	1:32.85	Stephanie Venier  Austria	1:33.25	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:33.30
Super-G[11] details	Nicole Schmidhofer  Austria	1:21.34	Tina Weirather  Liechtenstein	1:21.67	Lara Gut   Switzerland	1:21.70
Giant slalom[12] details	Tessa Worley  France	2:05.55	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	2:05.89	Sofia Goggia  Italy	2:06.29
Slalom[13] details	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	1:37.27	Wendy Holdener   Switzerland	1:38.91	Frida Hansdotter  Sweden	1:39.02
Alpine combined[14] details	Wendy Holdener   Switzerland	1:58.88	Michelle Gisin   Switzerland	1:58.93	Michaela Kirchgasser  Austria	1:59.26

Mixed[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team event[15] details	France Adeline Baud Mugnier Nastasia Noens Tessa Worley Mathieu Faivre Julien Lizeroux Alexis Pinturault	Slovakia Tereza Jančová Veronika Velez-Zuzulová Petra Vlhová Matej Falat Adam Žampa Andreas Žampa	Sweden Frida Hansdotter Maria Pietilä Holmner Emelie Wikström Mattias Hargin Andre Myhrer

Participating countries[]

A total of 77 countries are scheduled to compete.^[16]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

Coordinates: 46°30′22″N 9°47′13″E / 46.506°N 9.787°E / 46.506; 9.787