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)
Main venue	Roc de Fer (W), L'Éclipse (M)

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2023
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Parallel giant slalom	men	women
Team	mixed

The 47th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships took place from 6 to 19 February 2023 in two neighboring locations in the French Alps, Courchevel and Méribel.

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.^[1]

The same two towns already hosted parts of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games.^[2] In Courchevel, ski jumping and the Nordic combination took place, and Méribel was the location for the women's alpine skiing.

Bidding

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.^[3] 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.^[1]

In March 2022, Courchevel and Méribel hosted the finals of the 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.^[3]

Qualification

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.^[4] In some events, competitors passed a further qualification at the Championships themselves (see below).

Schedule

The competitive program was as follows (all times CET):^[5][6]

Qualifying races

Medal summary

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

Events

Men's events

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

Women's events

Méribel during Women's Super G

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

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team parallel event	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

References

External links

• Official website