FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021
Host city	Cortina d'Ampezzo
Country	Italy
Events	13
Opening	8 February 2021
Closing	21 February 2021
Opened by	Sergio Mattarella
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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]

Cortina

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Location in Europe

Cortina d'Ampezzo

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Location in the Alps

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]}
	Alpine combined	Slalom				15:20^{[note 2]}
	Parallel giant slalom						14:00
	Giant slalom	Run 1								10:00
	Giant slalom	Run 2								13:30
	Slalom	Run 1										10:00
	Slalom	Run 2										13:30

Women	Downhill			11:00
	Super-G		10:45^{[note 3]}
	Alpine combined	Super-G				09:45^{[note 4]}
	Alpine combined	Slalom				14:10^{[note 4]}
	Parallel giant slalom						14:00
	Giant slalom	Run 1							10:00
	Giant slalom	Run 2							13:30
	Slalom	Run 1									10:00
	Slalom	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
9	Sweden	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		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