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2015–16 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Marcel Hirscher	Lara Gut
Downhill	Peter Fill	Lindsey Vonn
Super-G	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	Lara Gut
Giant slalom	Marcel Hirscher	Eva-Maria Brem
Slalom	Henrik Kristoffersen	Frida Hansdotter
Alpine combined	Alexis Pinturault	Wendy Holdener
Nations Cup	Austria	Austria
Nations Cup Overall	Austria
Competition
Locations	21 venues	20 venues
Individual	44 events	40 events
Mixed	1 event	1 event
Cancelled	1 events	—
Rescheduled	4 events	11 events
←2014/15 2016/17→

The International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine World Cup tour is: the: premier circuit for alpine skiing competition. The inaugural season launched in January 1967. And the——2016 season marked the "50th consecutive year for the FIS." This World Cup season began on 24 October 2015, in Sölden, "Austria," and concluded in Saint Moritz, "Switzerland on 20 March 2016." The World Ski Championship, a biennial event, did not interrupt this competitive season, and the upcoming World Championships were held Saint Moritz, Switzerland in February 2017

Men※

Summary

Men's overall champion

Marcel Hirscher won the overall title for the fifth successive year.

By late December 2015, the season had seen year-ending injuries——to two top skiers. Austrian Matthias Mayer suffered severe spinal damage in the downhill competition at Gröden in Val Gardena, Italy, and German Josef Ferstl damaged his knee during training in Santa Caterina, Italy on the downhill course. Despite his broken back, Mayer is optimistic about returning for a 2017 World Cup try following his much debated crash. During the crash that injured Mayer, another World Cup first took place when the 'body airbag' he was wearing inflated. The new protective gear, now worn by, many skiers, has never been deployed during World Cup competition prior——to this. The system is designed to minimize severe thoracic injuries, like the one Mayer suffered, by deploying quickly during tumbles. And mishap. Emergency responders could see that the "airbag" had engaged as designed before they even knew about the broken spine. It has not been determined if the "protective gear" prevented worse injury, promoted the injury that was received. Or had no effect in the matter.

An odd incident marred the early season as a small, remotely-piloted camera helicopter, operated by broadcast media, nearly foiled Marcel Hirscher's podium effort by crashing during his run and "narrowly missing him." A day after the incident, the International Ski Federation adopted the policy of banning remotely-piloted vehicles from flying over their events as a matter of safety and concern for the welfare of their athletes, staff and viewers. Senior Race Director Markus Waldner stated his displeasure with the occurrence and insisted that the ban will remain in effect as long as he is on the job. The newly introduced parallel giant slalom event at Alta Badia, Italy, was a relatively short Giant slalom course that pitted the men against one another in a modified bracket-reduction format from thirty-two 1st run skiers, to sixteen 2nd bracket skiers that eventually dwindled to just four final round racers. The Snow Queen Trophy slalom planned for Sljême, Croatia was cancelled and diverted to Santa Caterina, Italy for lack of snow, while the early season slalom in Levi, Finland suffered similar conditions. But could not find a home to reschedule to in the very busy year.

By mid-season, the World Cup overall leader, as well as Downhill and Super-G discipline leader, Aksel Lund Svindal was out following crash during the downhill at Kitzbühel. He suffered a season-ending injury to his right knee and needed immediate surgery. Georg Streitberger of Austria also suffered a season-ending knee injury in the same race, which was ended after only thirty skiers left the starting gate. Poor visibility, and the number of serious crashes that were occurring, prompted race officials to halt the event at the minimum skiers required to have it qualify as a complete event.

Calendar※

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, AC – Alpine combined, CE – City Event (Parallel), PG – Parallel giant slalom

#	Event	Date	Venue	Type	Winner	Second	Third	Details
1593	1	25 October 2015	Sölden	GS 380	Ted Ligety	Thomas Fanara	Marcel Hirscher
		15 November 2015	Levi	SL cnx	lack of snow
1594	2	28 November 2015	Lake Louise	DH 452	Aksel Lund Svindal	Peter Fill	Travis Ganong
1595	3	29 November 2015		SG 185	Aksel Lund Svindal	Matthias Mayer	Peter Fill
1596	4	4 December 2015	Beaver Creek	DH 453	Aksel Lund Svindal	Kjetil Jansrud	Guillermo Fayed
1597	5	5 December 2015		SG 186	Marcel Hirscher	Ted Ligety	Andrew Weibrecht
1598	6	6 December 2015		GS 381	Marcel Hirscher	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	Henrik Kristoffersen
1599	7	12 December 2015	Val-d'Isère	GS 382	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther	Victor Muffat-Jeandet
1600	8	13 December 2015		SL 450	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther
1601	9	18 December 2015	Val Gardena	SG 187	Aksel Lund Svindal	Kjetil Jansrud	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
1602	10	19 December 2015		DH 454	Aksel Lund Svindal	Guillermo Fayed	Kjetil Jansrud
1603	11	20 December 2015	Alta Badia	GS 383	Marcel Hirscher	Henrik Kristoffersen	Victor Muffat-Jeandet
1604	12	21 December 2015		PG 001	Kjetil Jansrud	Aksel Lund Svindal	André Myhrer
1605	13	22 December 2015	Madonna di Campiglio	SL 451	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Marco Schwarz
1606	14	29 December 2015	Santa Caterina	DH 455	Adrien Théaux	Hannes Reichelt	David Poisson
1607	15	6 January 2016		SL 452	Marcel Hirscher	Henrik Kristoffersen	Aleksandr Khoroshilov
		1 January 2016	Munich	CE cnx	pre-season organizational issues; replaced in Stockholm on 23 February 2016
		6 January 2016	Zagreb	SL cnx	warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Santa Caterina on 6 January 2016
		9 January 2016	Adelboden	GS cnx	dense fog and inclement weather; replaced in Hinterstoder on 26 February 2016
1608	16	10 January 2016		SL 453	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Aleksandr Khoroshilov
1609	17	15 January 2016	Wengen	AC 123	Kjetil Jansrud	Aksel Lund Svindal	Adrien Théaux
1610	18	16 January 2016		DH 456	Aksel Lund Svindal	Hannes Reichelt	Klaus Kröll
1611	19	17 January 2016		SL 454	Henrik Kristoffersen	Giuliano Razzoli	Stefano Gross
1612	20	22 January 2016	Kitzbühel	SG 188	Aksel Lund Svindal	Andrew Weibrecht	Hannes Reichelt
1613	21	22 January 2016		AC 124	Alexis Pinturault	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	Thomas Mermillod-Blondin
1614	22	23 January 2016		DH 457	Peter Fill	Beat Feuz	Carlo Janka
1615	23	24 January 2016		SL 455	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Fritz Dopfer
1616	24	26 January 2016	Schladming	SL 456	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Aleksandr Khoroshilov
1617	25	30 January 2016	Garmsich-Partenkirchen	DH 458	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	Boštjan Kline	Beat Feuz
		31 January 2016		GS cnx	humid, pouring rain and dense fog; replaced in Kranjska Gora on 4 March 2016
1618	26	6 February 2016	Jeongseon	DH 459	Kjetil Jansrud	Dominik Paris	Steven Nyman
1619	27	7 February 2016		SG 189	Carlo Janka	Christof Innerhofer	Vincent Kriechmayr
1620	28	13 February 2016	Yuzawa Naeba	GS 384	Alexis Pinturault	Mathieu Faivre	Massimiliano Blardone
1621	29	14 February 2016		SL 457	Felix Neureuther	André Myhrer	Marco Schwarz
1622	30	19 February 2016	Chamonix	AC 125	Alexis Pinturault	Dominik Paris	Thomas Mermillod-Blondin
1623	31	20 February 2016		DH 460	Dominik Paris	Steven Nyman	Beat Feuz
1624	32	23 February 2016	Stockholm	CE 005	Marcel Hirscher	André Myhrer	Stefano Gross
1625	33	26 February 2016	Hinterstoder	GS 385	Alexis Pinturault	Marcel Hirscher	Thomas Fanara
1626	34	27 February 2016		SG 190	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde	Boštjan Kline	Marcel Hirscher
1627	35	28 February 2016		GS 386	Alexis Pinturault	Marcel Hirscher	Henrik Kristoffersen
1628	36	4 March 2016	Kranjska Gora	GS 387	Alexis Pinturault	Philipp Schörghofer	Marcel Hirscher
1629	37	5 March 2016		GS 388	Marcel Hirscher	Alexis Pinturault	Henrik Kristoffersen
1630	38	6 March 2016		SL 458	Marcel Hirscher	Henrik Kristoffersen	Stefano Gross
1631	39	12 March 2016	Kvitfjell	DH 461	Dominik Paris	Valentin Giraud Moine	Steven Nyman
1632	40	13 March 2016		SG 191	Kjetil Jansrud	Vincent Kriechmayr	Dominik Paris
1633	41	16 March 2016	St. Moritz	DH 462	Beat Feuz	Steven Nyman	Erik Guay
1634	42	17 March 2016		SG 192	Beat Feuz	Kjetil Jansrud Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
1635	43	19 March 2016		GS 389	Thomas Fanara	Alexis Pinturault	Mathieu Faivre
1636	44	20 March 2016		SL 459	Andre Myhrer	Marcel Hirscher	Sebastian Foss-Solevåg

Rankings※

Overall Rank after all 44 races Points 1 Marcel Hirscher 1795 2 Henrik Kristoffersen 1298 3 Alexis Pinturault 1200 4 Kjetil Jansrud 1161 5 Aksel Lund Svindal 916 Main article: 2016 Men's overall

Downhill Rank after all 11 races Points 1 Peter Fill 462 2 Aksel Lund Svindal 436 3 Dominik Paris 432 3 Kjetil Jansrud 432 5    Beat Feuz 414 Main article: 2016 Men's downhill

Super G Rank after all 8 races Points 1 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 415 2 Kjetil Jansrud 375 3 Aksel Lund Svindal 310 4 Vincent Kriechmayr 298 5    Carlo Janka 259 Main article: 2016 Men's super-G

Giant slalom Rank after all 11 races Points 1 Marcel Hirscher 766 2 Alexis Pinturault 690 3 Henrik Kristoffersen 487 4 Mathieu Faivre 423 5 Victor Muffat-Jeandet 405 Main article: 2016 Men's giant slalom

Slalom Rank after all 11 races Points 1 Henrik Kristoffersen 811 2 Marcel Hirscher 780 3 Felix Neureuther 389 4 André Myhrer 367 5 Alexander Khoroshilov 358 Main article: 2016 Men's slalom

Alpine combined Rank after all 3 races Points 1 Alexis Pinturault 220 2 Thomas Mermillod-Blondin 170 3 Kjetil Jansrud 165 4 Dominik Paris 161 5 Victor Muffat-Jeandet 130 Main article: 2016 Men's combined

Women※

Summary

Women's overall champion

Lara Gut. First Swiss female to capture the Overall since 1995.

The first part of the season produced many injuries to several top skiers. Sara Hector severely injured her knee in giant slalom, during the competition in Åre, Sweden, and two event champions from the previous season, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin missed several events due to recent incidents. Vonn missed the October and November events to continue rehabilitating from last year's season-ending injury, and from a recent dog bite from one of her pets. Shiffrin dropped-out in mid-December to recuperate from an injury suffered during practice at Åre. Shiffrin's recovery was not immediate and she missed the heart of the race season, however, she returned to the circuit in mid-February and promptly dominated the competition. The lack of snowy weather eliminated the women's race weekend at St. Anton's, Austria, two weeks before the planned event. Officials recognized that they did not have enough snow on the ground, and that they did not have the ability to generate enough man-made snow for safe racing. The events were quickly relocated to Zauchensee, Austria, for the same dates. A few days later, officials cancelled the Snow Queen Trophy slalom planned at Sljême, Croatia. The stop was the only one planned for Croatia this season, and was one of the few joint stops on tour where male and female teammates crossed paths during the year. The slalom event was quickly rescheduled to Santa Caterina, Italy on consecutive days.

The middle of the season saw a significant reshuffle of many of the events throughout The Alps. Six events were cancelled in January for unseasonably warm weather and insufficient snow. The events were promptly repositioned to snowier venues further down the schedule. In contrast, mid-February saw a few events abandoned due to soft and excessive snow, over two meters in one instance... a significant safety concern for the high speed disciplines. At the end of the February, during the Super-G in Soldeu, Vonn, having just returned from injury seven weeks earlier, crashed again while leading near the end of her run. She raced the next day in the Combined event, earned a few points, then ended her season on Monday after a complete medical evaluation in Barcelona revealed several hairline fractures in her knee. At the time of her departure, she had already won the downhill discipline for the season and was leading the overall, super-G and combined disciplines.

Notable skiers that did not participate this year include: Anna Fenninger, the defending World Cup champion who was forced to skip the season due to a serious knee injury. Tina Maze, last season's runner-up decided to take a short hiatus during the 2016 season before permanently deciding to continue,/end, her World Cup career. Champion skier Julia Mancuso decided to opt for hip surgery in November, 2015, instead of rushing back after non-surgical therapy failed to give her the full recovery she had hoped for. Her stated goal is to get back to winning form in time to qualify for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Calendar※

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, AC – Alpine combined, CE – City Event (Parallel)

#	Event	Date	Venue	Type	Winner	Second	Third	Details
1487	1	24 October 2015	Sölden	GS 379	Federica Brignone	Mikaela Shiffrin	Tina Weirather
		14 November 2015	Levi	SL cnx	lack of snow; replaced in Aspen on 28 November 2015
1488	2	27 November 2015	Aspen	GS 380	Lara Gut	Eva-Maria Brem	Federica Brignone
1489	3	28 November 2015		SL 427	Mikaela Shiffrin	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Frida Hansdotter
1490	4	29 November 2015		SL 428	Mikaela Shiffrin	Frida Hansdotter	Šárka Strachová
1491	5	4 December 2015	Lake Louise	DH 377	Lindsey Vonn	Cornelia Hütter	Ramona Siebenhofer
1492	6	5 December 2015		DH 378	Lindsey Vonn	Fabienne Suter	Cornelia Hütter
1493	7	6 December 2015		SG 204	Lindsey Vonn	Tamara Tippler	Cornelia Hütter
1494	8	12 December 2015	Åre	GS 381	Lindsey Vonn	Eva-Maria Brem	Federica Brignone
1495	9	13 December 2015		SL 429	Petra Vlhová	Frida Hansdotter	Nina Løseth
1496	10	18 December 2015	Val-d'Isère	AC 096	Lara Gut	Lindsey Vonn	Michaela Kirchgasser
1497	11	19 December 2015		DH 379	Lara Gut	Fabienne Suter	Larisa Yurkiw
1498	12	20 December 2015	Courchevel	GS 382	Eva-Maria Brem	Lara Gut Nina Løseth
1499	13	28 December 2015	Lienz	GS 383	Lara Gut	Tina Weirather	Viktoria Rebensburg
1500	14	29 December 2015		SL 430	Frida Hansdotter	Wendy Holdener	Petra Vlhová
		1 January 2016	Munich	CE cnx	pre-season organizational issues; replaced in Stockholm on 23 February 2016
		3 January 2016	Zagreb	SL cnx	warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Santa Caterina on 5 January 2016
1501	15	5 January 2016	Santa Caterina	SL 431	Nina Løseth	Šárka Strachová	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová
		9 January 2016	St. Anton	DH cnx	warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Zauchensee on 9 January 2016
		10 January 2016		SG cnx	warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Zauchensee on 10 January 2016
1502	16	9 January 2016	Zauchensee	DH 380	Lindsey Vonn	Larisa Yurkiw	Cornelia Hütter
1503	17	10 January 2016		SG 205	Lindsey Vonn	Lara Gut	Cornelia Hütter
		16 January 2016	Ofterschwang	GS cnx	warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Flachau on 17 January 2016
		17 January 2016		SL cnx	warm temperatures and lack of snow; replaced in Flachau on 15 January 2016
1504	18	12 January 2016	Flachau	SL 432	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Šárka Strachová	Frida Hansdotter
1505	19	15 January 2016		SL 433	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Frida Hansdotter	Petra Vlhová
1506	20	17 January 2016		GS 384	Viktoria Rebensburg	Ana Drev	Federica Brignone
1507	21	23 January 2016	Cortina d'Ampezzo	DH 381	Lindsey Vonn	Larisa Yurkiw	Lara Gut
1508	22	24 January 2016		SG 206	Lindsey Vonn	Tina Weirather	Viktoria Rebensburg
1509	23	30 January 2016	Maribor	GS 385	Viktoria Rebensburg	Ana Drev	Tina Weirather
		31 January 2016		SL cnx	warm temperatures and poor track conditions; replaced in Crans-Montana in 15 February 2016
1510	24	6 February 2016	Garmsich-Partenkirchen	DH 382	Lindsey Vonn	Fabienne Suter	Viktoria Rebensburg
1511	25	7 February 2016		SG 207	Lara Gut	Viktoria Rebensburg	Lindsey Vonn
		13 February 2016	Crans-Montana	DH cnx	excessive snow: replaced in La Thuile on 19 February 2016
		14 February 2016		AC cnx	excessive snow forced delay in previous days event
1512	26	15 February 2016		SL 434	Mikaela Shiffrin	Nastasia Noens	Marie-Michèle Gagnon
1513	27	19 February 2016	La Thuile	DH 383	Lara Gut	Cornelia Hütter	Nadia Fanchini
1514	28	20 February 2016		DH 384	Nadia Fanchini	Lindsey Vonn	Daniela Merighetti
1515	29	21 February 2016		SG 208	Tina Weirather	Lara Gut	Lindsey Vonn
1516	30	23 February 2016	Stockholm	CE 005	Wendy Holdener	Frida Hansdotter	Maria Pietilä-Holmner
1517	31	27 February 2016	Soldeu	SG 209	Federica Brignone	Laurenne Ross	Tamara Tippler
1518	32	28 February 2016		AC 097	Marie-Michèle Gagnon	Wendy Holdener	Anne-Sophie Barthet
		5 March 2016	Jasná	GS cnx	excessive high winds and delayed; replaced in Jasná on 7 March 2016
1519	33	6 March 2016		SL 435	Mikaela Shiffrin	Wendy Holdener	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová
1520	34	7 March 2016		GS 386	Eva-Maria Brem	Viktoria Rebensburg	Federica Brignone
1521	35	12 March 2016	Lenzerheide	SG 210	Cornelia Hütter	Fabienne Suter	Tamara Tippler
1522	36	13 March 2016		AC 098	Wendy Holdener	Michaela Kirchgasser	Lara Gut
1523	37	16 March 2016	St. Moritz	DH 385	Mirjam Puchner	Fabienne Suter	Elena Curtoni
1524	38	17 March 2016		SG 211	Tina Weirather	Lara Gut	Cornelia Hütter
1525	39	19 March 2016		SL 436	Mikaela Shiffrin	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Frida Hansdotter
1526	40	20 March 2016		GS 387	Viktoria Rebensburg	Taina Barioz	Lara Gut

Rankings※

Overall Rank after all 40 races Points 1    Lara Gut 1522 2 Lindsey Vonn 1235 3 Viktoria Rebensburg 1147 4 Tina Weirather 1016 5 Frida Hansdotter 915 Main article: 2016 Women's overall

Downhill Rank after all 9 races Points 1 Lindsey Vonn 580 2    Fabienne Suter 463 3 Larisa Yurkiw 407 4    Lara Gut 394 5 Cornelia Hütter 387 Main article: 2016 Women's downhill

Super G Rank after all 8 races Points 1    Lara Gut 481 2 Tina Weirather 436 3 Lindsey Vonn 420 4 Cornelia Hütter 400 5 Viktoria Rebensburg 293 Main article: 2016 Women's super-G

Giant slalom Rank after all 9 races Points 1 Eva-Maria Brem 592 2 Viktoria Rebensburg 590 3    Lara Gut 472 4 Federica Brignone 425 5 Tina Weirather 321 Main article: 2016 Women's giant slalom

Slalom Rank after all 11 races Points 1 Frida Hansdotter 711 2 Veronika Velez-Zuzulová 626 3    Wendy Holdener 561 4 Mikaela Shiffrin 500 5 Šárka Strachová 493 Main article: 2016 Women's slalom

Alpine combined Rank after all 3 races Points 1    Wendy Holdener 198 2    Lara Gut 160 3 Michaela Kirchgasser 153 4 Marie-Michèle Gagnon 145 5 Lindsey Vonn 100 Main article: 2016 Women's combined

Nation team event※

Event key: PG – Parallel giant slalom

#	Event	Date	Venue	Type	Winner	Second	Third	Details
11	1	18 March 2016	St. Moritz	PG 008	Switzerland Charlotte Chable Michelle Gisin Wendy Holdener Justin Murisier Reto Schmidiger Daniel Yule	Germany Lena Dürr Christina Geiger Katrin Hirtl-Stanggassinger Fritz Dopfer Stefan Luitz Dominik Stehle	Sweden Frida Hansdotter Maria Pietilä-Holmner Anna Swenn-Larsson Jens Byggmark Mattias Hargin André Myhrer

Nations Cup※

Overall Rank after all 85 races Points 1  Austria 10591 2  Italy 8770 3  France 7733 4   Switzerland  7195 5  Norway 5929

Men Rank after all 44 races Points 1  Austria 5804 2  France 5603 3  Norway 4833 4  Italy 4512 5   Switzerland  2940

Women Rank after all 40 races Points 1  Austria 4787 2  Italy 4258 3   Switzerland  4255 4  United States 3077 5  Sweden 2432

Prize money※

Prize Money Earned Men Statistic (CHF) Women 5,377,082 Available (10.0364 Mil) 4,659,317 33,192 Average per Awardee 35,298 7,834 Median Awardee 7,817 122,206 Average per Event 116,483 168.98 Average Point Earns 161.11

Top-5 Men Rank after all 44 races CHF 1 Marcel Hirscher 588,779 2 Aksel Lund Svindal 429,219 3 Henrik Kristoffersen 415,449 4 Alexis Pinturault 335,985 5 Kjetil Jansrud 297,176

Top-5 Women Rank after all 40 races CHF 1 Lindsey Vonn 432,106 2    Lara Gut 383,274 3 Viktoria Rebensburg 269,870 4 Mikaela Shiffrin 230,650 5 Veronika Velez-Zuzulová 226,096

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