Fis Alpine World Ski Championships 2023

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2023

Host city	Courchevel and Méribel
Country	France
Opening	5 February 2023 (2023-02-05)
Closing	19 February 2023 (2023-02-19)
Opened by	Emmanuel Macron
Main venue	Roc de Fer (W), L'Éclipse (M)
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The location was decided in May 2018 during the 51st FIS Congress in Costa Navarino (Greece), where Courchevel-Méribel won against Austrian Saalbach-Hinterglemm with 9 to 6 votes.

The same two towns already hosted parts of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games. In Courchevel, ski jumping and the Nordic combination took place, and Méribel was the location for the women's alpine skiing.

In 2015, upon a request by the Fédération Française de Ski (FFS), Courchevel, Méribel and Val d'Isère drew up proposals to organize a ski world championship in France. In January 2016, the FFS then chose the joint bid of Courchevel and Méribel. On 24 January 2017, the bid of the two alpine resorts was submitted to the FIS. Finally, in May 2018, the FIS selected the French bid, after competing against the Austrian bid. The then-time president of the Austrian Ski Association, Peter Schröcksnadel, commented that the decision was understandable, as the French had been waiting for a World Championships in their own country for four years longer than the Austrians, and that Austria had already hosted several large sport events during the last few years.

In March 2022, Courchevel and Méribel hosted the finals of the 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.

Per discipline and gender, each national ski federation could nominate four skiers. The current world champion in the respective discipline was allowed as a fifth competitor. In addition, every participant must had less than 80 FIS points. Skiers who perform better in recent official competitions have less points; the top 30 skiers on the current World Cup starting list have, by definition, between 0 and 5.99 FIS Points. In some events, competitors passed a further qualification at the Championships themselves (see below).

The competitive program was as follows (all times CET):

Qualifying races

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland	3	3	1	7
2	Norway	2	3	4	9
3	United States	2	2	0	4
4	Italy	2	1	1	4
5	Canada	2	0	2	4
6	France*	1	0	1	2
	Germany	1	0	1	2
8	Austria	0	3	4	7
9	Greece	0	1	0	1
Totals (9 entries)		13	13	14	40

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Marco Odermatt   Switzerland	1:47.05	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde   Norway	1:47.53	Cameron Alexander   Canada	1:47.94
Super-G details	James Crawford   Canada	1:07.22	Aleksander Aamodt Kilde   Norway	1:07.23	Alexis Pinturault   France	1:07.48
Giant slalom details	Marco Odermatt   Switzerland	2:34.08	Loïc Meillard   Switzerland	2:34.40	Marco Schwarz   Austria	2:34.48
Slalom details	Henrik Kristoffersen   Norway	1:39.50	AJ Ginnis   Greece	1:39.70	Alex Vinatzer   Italy	1:39.88
Alpine combined details	Alexis Pinturault   France	1:53.31	Marco Schwarz   Austria	1:53.41	Raphael Haaser   Austria	1:53.75
Parallel giant slalom details	Alexander Schmid   Germany		Dominik Raschner   Austria		Timon Haugan   Norway

Women's events

 

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill details	Jasmine Flury   Switzerland	1:28.03	Nina Ortlieb   Austria	1:28.07	Corinne Suter   Switzerland	1:28.15
Super-G details	Marta Bassino   Italy	1:28.06	Mikaela Shiffrin   United States	1:28.17	Cornelia Hütter   Austria Kajsa Vickhoff Lie   Norway	1:28.39
Giant slalom details	Mikaela Shiffrin   United States	2:07.13	Federica Brignone   Italy	2:07.25	Ragnhild Mowinckel   Norway	2:07.35
Slalom details	Laurence St. Germain   Canada	1:43.15	Mikaela Shiffrin   United States	1:43.72	Lena Dürr   Germany	1:43.84
Alpine combined details	Federica Brignone   Italy	1:57.47	Wendy Holdener   Switzerland	1:59.09	Ricarda Haaser   Austria	1:59.73
Parallel giant slalom details	Maria Therese Tviberg   Norway		Wendy Holdener   Switzerland		Thea Louise Stjernesund   Norway

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team parallel event details	United States Tommy Ford Katie Hensien Paula Moltzan Nina O'Brien River Radamus Luke Winters	Norway Timon Haugan Kristin Lysdahl Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen Alexander Steen Olsen Thea Louise Stjernesund Maria Therese Tviberg	Canada Valérie Grenier Erik Read Jeffrey Read Britt Richardson