FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015
Super combined		men		women
Downhill		men		women
Giant slalom		men		women
Slalom		men		women
Super-G		men		women
Team		mixed

Beaver
Creek

Location in the United States

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 were the 43rd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, held February 2–15 in the United States at Vail / Beaver Creek, Colorado.^[1]

Athletes from over 70 nations were expected, with a worldwide television audience of an estimated 1 billion and an onsite media and broadcast entourage of approximately 1,500. Competition began on Tuesday, February 3 and concluded on Sunday, February 15, covering 13 days and two weekends. There were five men’s and five women’s individual races, along with the nation’s team event, featuring a parallel giant slalom format. The team event was run at Vail and the other ten competitions at Beaver Creek, on or near the Birds of Prey course.

These were the third world championships for Vail / Beaver Creek, which previously hosted in 1989 and 1999. All the events in 1989 were held at Vail, and 1999 had events at both resorts, seven at Vail and three at Beaver Creek. Also in Colorado, Aspen hosted in 1950, which were the first championships held outside of Europe, the first to include the giant slalom event, and the first alpine world ski championships outside the Olympics since 1939.

Host selection

All three finalists for 2015 had attempted to host the 2013 championships, which were awarded in 2008 to Austria.^[2]

City	Country	Votes	Previous championships hosted
Vail / Beaver Creek, Colorado	United States	8	1999, 1989 (Vail only), orig. 1976 Winter Olympics (withdrawn 1972)
Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	4	1956 Winter Olympics, 1941 (later withdrawn), 1932
St. Moritz	Switzerland	3	2003, 1974, 1948 Winter Olympics, 1934

The winner was selected at the FIS Congress in Antalya, Turkey, on June 3, 2010.
Vail/Beaver Creek won in the first round with 8 votes to Cortina's 4 and St. Moritz's 3.

A new women's downhill course was built adjacent to the men's Birds of Prey course at Beaver Creek.^[3]

Schedule and course information

All times are local (UTC−7).^[4]

• The women's Super-G was delayed 30 minutes due to strong winds. The start was lowered 74 m (243 ft), shortening the course by 200 m (220 yd).
• The men's Super-G was postponed a day due to adverse weather conditions.

Medal winners

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[5]	Patrick Küng   Switzerland	1:43.18	Travis Ganong  United States	1:43.42	Beat Feuz   Switzerland	1:43.49
Super-G[6]	Hannes Reichelt  Austria	1:15.68	Dustin Cook  Canada	1:15.79	Adrien Théaux  France	1:15.92
Giant Slalom[7]	Ted Ligety  United States	2:34.16	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	2:34.61	Alexis Pinturault  France	2:35.04
Slalom[8]	Jean-Baptiste Grange  France	1:57.47	Fritz Dopfer  Germany	1:57.82	Felix Neureuther  Germany	1:58.02
Super Combined[9]	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	2:36.10	Kjetil Jansrud  Norway	2:36.29	Ted Ligety  United States	2:36.40

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[10]	Tina Maze  Slovenia	1:45.89	Anna Fenninger  Austria	1:45.91	Lara Gut   Switzerland	1:46.23
Super-G[11]	Anna Fenninger  Austria	1:10.29	Tina Maze  Slovenia	1:10.32	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:10.44
Giant Slalom[12]	Anna Fenninger  Austria	2:19.16	Viktoria Rebensburg  Germany	2:20.56	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby  Sweden	2:20.65
Slalom[13]	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	1:38.48	Frida Hansdotter  Sweden	1:38.82	Šárka Strachová  Czech Republic	1:39.25
Super Combined[14]	Tina Maze  Slovenia	2:33.37	Nicole Hosp  Austria	2:33.59	Michaela Kirchgasser  Austria	2:33.72

Team event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Team event[15]	Austria Eva-Maria Brem Michaela Kirchgasser Marcel Hirscher Christoph Nösig reserves: Nicole Hosp, Philipp Schörghofer		Canada Candace Crawford Erin Mielzynski Phil Brown Trevor Philp reserves: Marie-Pier Préfontaine, Erik Read		Sweden Maria Pietilä Holmner Anna Swenn-Larsson Mattias Hargin André Myhrer reserves: Sara Hector, Markus Larsson

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria	5	3	1	9
2	United States	2	1	2	5
3	Slovenia	2	1	0	3
4	France	1	0	2	3
	Switzerland	1	0	2	3
6	Germany	0	2	1	3
7	Canada	0	2	0	2
8	Sweden	0	1	2	3
9	Norway	0	1	0	1
10	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
Total		11	11	11	33

• Host country highlighted.

References

External links

• Official website
• FIS Site

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
1931 Mürren 1932 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1933 Innsbruck 1934 St. Moritz 1935 Mürren 1936 Innsbruck 1937 Chamonix 1938 Engelberg 1939 Zakopane 1941 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1948 St. Moritz 1950 Aspen 1952 Oslo 1954 Åre 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1958 Badgastein 1960 Squaw Valley 1962 Chamonix 1964 Innsbruck 1966 Portillo 1968 Grenoble 1970 Val Gardena 1972 Sapporo 1974 St. Moritz 1976 Innsbruck 1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1980 Lake Placid 1982 Schladming 1985 Bormio 1987 Crans-Montana 1989 Vail 1991 Saalbach 1993 Morioka 1996 Sierra Nevada 1997 Sestriere 1999 Vail 2001 St. Anton 2003 St. Moritz 2005 Bormio 2007 Åre 2009 Val d'Isère 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2013 Schladming 2015 Vail/Beaver Creek 2017 St. Moritz 2019 Åre 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo
List of alpine skiing world champions

Coordinates: 39°34′59″N 106°31′23″W / 39.583°N 106.523°W / 39.583; -106.523