FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021

Host city	Cortina d'Ampezzo
Country	Italy
Events	13
Opening ceremony	8 February 2021 (2021-02-08)
Closing ceremony	21 February 2021 (2021-02-21)
Officially opened by	Sergio Mattarella
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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Parallel giant slalom	men	women
Team	mixed
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The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021 were held from 8–21 February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.^[1] In May 2020, the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) and the event organizing committee asked the International Ski Federation (FIS) to postpone the event until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] However, the request was rejected by FIS, and the organizers then moved forward with plans for 2021.^[3]

The host city was selected at the FIS Congress in Cancún, Mexico, on 10 June 2016. Cortina d'Ampezzo was the only applicant, and had been a finalist for the previous two championships.

Cortina previously hosted the world championships in 1932 and 1956 (Winter Olympics) and has held numerous World Cup events; the Tofane is a regular stop for women's speed events in January. It is scheduled to host the alpine skiing events of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

This was the seventh edition in Italy; in addition to Cortina, other sites were Bormio (2005, 1985), Sestriere (1997), and Val Gardena (1970). Sestriere was also the alpine host for the 2006 Winter Olympics, with women's speed events at San Sicario.

Russia doping ban[]

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated.

As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021–22 World Championships and 2022 Winter Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country.^[4][5][6] Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision.^[7]

After reviewing the case on appeal, CAS ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed on Russia. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.^[8]

Schedule and course information[]

Thirteen events were scheduled and completed.^[9]

All times are local (UTC+1).

Events calendar

Events

Event days

11

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

February

Men

Downhill

11:00

Super-G

13:00[note 1]

Alpine combined

Super-G

11:15[note 2]

Slalom

15:20[note 2]

Parallel giant slalom

14:00

Giant slalom

Run 1

10:00

Run 2

13:30

Slalom

Run 1

10:00

Run 2

13:30

Women

Downhill

11:00

Super-G

10:45[note 3]

Alpine combined

Super-G

09:45[note 4]

Slalom

14:10[note 4]

Parallel giant slalom

14:00

Giant slalom

Run 1

10:00

Run 2

13:30

Slalom

Run 1

10:00

Run 2

13:30

Mixed

Team parallel event

12:15

Course information[]

Date	Race	Start elevation	Finish elevation	Vertical drop	Course length	Average gradient
Sun 14 Feb	Downhill – men	2,400 m (7,874 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	840 m (2,756 ft)	2.610 km (1.622 mi)	32.2%
Sat 13 Feb	Downhill – women	2,320 m (7,612 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	760 m (2,493 ft)	2.660 km (1.653 mi)	28.6%
Thu 11 Feb	Super-G – men	2,190 m (7,185 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	630 m (2,067 ft)	2.075 km (1.289 mi)	30.4%
Thu 11 Feb	Super-G – women	2,160 m (7,087 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	600 m (1,969 ft)	2.150 km (1.336 mi)	27.9%
Mon 15 Feb	Super-G – (AC) – men	2,160 m (7,087 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	600 m (1,969 ft)	2.150 km (1.336 mi)	27.9%
Mon 15 Feb	Super-G – (AC) – women	2,160 m (7,087 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	600 m (1,969 ft)	2.150 km (1.336 mi)	27.9%
Fri 19 Feb	Giant slalom – men	2,010 m (6,594 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	450 m (1,476 ft)
Thu 18 Feb	Giant slalom – women	1,960 m (6,430 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	400 m (1,312 ft)
Sun 21 Feb	Slalom – men	1,700 m (5,577 ft)	1,490 m (4,888 ft)	210 m (689 ft)
Sat 20 Feb	Slalom – women	1,700 m (5,577 ft)	1,490 m (4,888 ft)	210 m (689 ft)
Mon 15 Feb	Slalom – (AC) – men	1,740 m (5,709 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	180 m (591 ft)
Mon 15 Feb	Slalom – (AC) – women	1,740 m (5,709 ft)	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	180 m (591 ft)
Tue 16 Feb	Parallel GS – men	2,055 m (6,742 ft)	1,890 m (6,201 ft)	165 m (541 ft)
Tue 16 Feb	Parallel GS – women	2,055 m (6,742 ft)	1,890 m (6,201 ft)	165 m (541 ft)
Wed 17 Feb	Team event – mixed	1,665 m (5,463 ft)	1,555 m (5,102 ft)	110 m (361 ft)

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria	5	1	2	8
2	Switzerland	3	1	5	9
3	France	2	1	2	5
4	Norway	2	0	1	3
5	United States	1	1	2	4
6	Italy*	1	1	0	2
7	Germany	0	3	1	4
8	Slovakia	0	2	0	2
9	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 nations)		14	12	13	39

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[14] details	Vincent Kriechmayr  Austria	1:37.79	Andreas Sander  Germany	1:37.80	Beat Feuz  Switzerland	1:37.97
Super-G[15] details	Vincent Kriechmayr  Austria	1:19.41	Romed Baumann  Germany	1:19.48	Alexis Pinturault  France	1:19.79
Giant slalom[16] details	Mathieu Faivre  France	2:37.25	Luca De Aliprandini  Italy	2:37.88	Marco Schwarz  Austria	2:38.12
Slalom[17] details	Sebastian Foss-Solevåg  Norway	1:46.48	Adrian Pertl  Austria	1:46.69	Henrik Kristoffersen  Norway	1:46.94
Alpine combined[18] details	Marco Schwarz  Austria	2:05.86	Alexis Pinturault  France	2:05.90	Loïc Meillard  Switzerland	2:06.98
Parallel giant slalom[19] details	Mathieu Faivre  France		Filip Zubčić  Croatia		Loïc Meillard  Switzerland

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[20] details	Corinne Suter  Switzerland	1:34.27	Kira Weidle  Germany	1:34.47	Lara Gut-Behrami  Switzerland	1:34.64
Super-G[21] details	Lara Gut-Behrami  Switzerland	1:25.51	Corinne Suter  Switzerland	1:25.85	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	1:25.98
Giant slalom[22] details	Lara Gut-Behrami  Switzerland	2:30.66	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	2:30.68	Katharina Liensberger  Austria	2:30.75
Slalom[23] details	Katharina Liensberger  Austria	1:39.50	Petra Vlhová  Slovakia	1:40.50	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	1:41.48
Alpine combined[24] details	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	2:07.22	Petra Vlhová  Slovakia	2:08.08	Michelle Gisin  Switzerland	2:08.11
Parallel giant slalom[25] details	Marta Bassino  Italy Katharina Liensberger  Austria		None awarded		Tessa Worley  France

Mixed[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team parallel event[26] details	Norway Sebastian Foss-Solevåg Kristin Lysdahl Kristina Riis-Johannessen Fabian Wilkens Solheim Thea Louise Stjernesund	Sweden Estelle Alphand William Hansson Sara Hector Kristoffer Jakobsen Jonna Luthman Mattias Rönngren	Germany Emma Aicher Lena Dürr Andrea Filser Stefan Luitz Alexander Schmid Linus Straßer

Participating countries[]

A total of 68 countries competed

References[]

Notes[]

External links[]

• Official website