2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
Discipline Men Women
Overall  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt (1) United States Mikaela Shiffrin (4)
Downhill NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde (1) Italy Sofia Goggia (3)
Super-G NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde (2) Italy Federica Brignone (1)
Giant slalom  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt (1) France Tessa Worley (2)
Slalom NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen (3) Slovakia Petra Vlhová (2)
Parallel (PGS)[a] Austria Christian Hirschbühl (1) Slovenia Andreja Slokar (1)
Nations Cup   Switzerland (8)  Austria (34)
Nations Cup Overall  Austria (42)
Competition
Locations
19 venues
20 venues
Individual
37 events
37 events
Mixed
1 event
1 event
Cancelled
6 events
3 events
Rescheduled
9 events
4 events
Overall champions
Marco Odermatt became the first Swiss skier to win an overall World Cup title since Carlo Janka in 2009–10.
Mikaela Shiffrin won her fourth overall World Cup title in history.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup was the premier circuit for alpine skiing competition. The inaugural season launched in January 1967, and the 2021–22 season marked the 56th consecutive year for the FIS World Cup.[1]

This season began in October 2021 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded in mid-March 2022 at the finals in Courchevel/Méribel, France. It was interrupted for most of February by the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China; events were held at Xiaohaituo Alpine Skiing Field.

Alexis Pinturault and Petra Vlhová were the defending overall champions, but first-time overall winner Marco Odermatt won the 2022 men's championship with three races to go and Mikaela Shiffrin won the 2022 women's championship for her fourth overall title with two races to go.

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, either for men or for women, Beaver Creek is hosting four speed events four days in a row, with two downhills and two super giant slaloms. Ultimately, though, one of those races was cancelled by bad weather.

For the first time in almost four years (28 January 2018, Lenzerheide) Mikaela Shiffrin didn't finish her second run (SL in Kranjska Gora). With her 47th slalom victory on 11 January in Schladming, Shiffrin set a new all-time record for victories in any single discipline in the history of the World Cup, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark and his 46 wins in the giant slalom.

Austrian skier Johannes Strolz became the 300th different race winner in men's World Cup history by taking his first career win (SL) at Adelboden.

An oddity occurred when Lucas Braathen won the slalom in Wengen after being in 29th place after the first run.

Dave Ryding, after winning the slalom in Kitzbühel, became the first British skier ever to win a World Cup event and at 35 years old, the oldest first-time World Cup winner.

On 1 March 2022, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIS decided to exclude athletes from Russia and Belarus from FIS competitions, with an immediate effect.[2]

Map of world cup hosts

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All 31 locations hosting world cup events for men (19), for women (21) and shared (10) in this season.

Austria Sölden Austria Lech/Zürs Canada Lake Louise United States Beaver Creek France Val d'Isère
Rettenbach Flexenarena Men's Olympic Downhill Birds of Prey La face de Bellevarde Piste Oreiller-Killy
Italy Val Gardena/Gröden Italy Alta Badia Italy Madonna di Campiglio Italy Bormio Switzerland Adelboden Slovenia Kranjska Gora
Saslong Gran Risa Canalone Miramonti Stelvio Chuenisbärgli Podkoren 3

Europe

North America

France

North Italy

Austria

Switzerland

Slovenia Maribor Austria Schladming Austria Kitzbühel Switzerland Wengen
Miranova proga A Planai Streif Ganslern Lauberhorn Männlichen
United States Killington Finland Levi Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo Croatia Zagreb Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Superstar Levi Black Olimpia delle Tofane Crveni spust Kandahar 1 Gudiberg

Women Men Shared

Men

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The number of races in the World Cup history
Total DH SG GS SL AC PS PG CE K.O. Winners
1854 514 229 437 518 134 2 8 10 1 303

after SL in Méribel (20 March 2022)

Calendar

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Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, PG – Parallel giant slalom
All # Date Venue Slope (%) Type Winner Second Third Overall leader R.
1818 1 24 October 2021   Austria Sölden Rettenbach (68.2%) GS 430   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt Austria Roland Leitinger Slovenia Žan Kranjec  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [3]
1819 2 14 November 2021   Austria Lech/Zürs Flexenarena (50%) PG 008  Austria Christian Hirschbühl Austria Dominik Raschner NorwayAtle Lie McGrath Austria Christian Hirschbühl
 Switzerland  Marco Odermatt
[4]
26 November 2021   Canada Lake Louise Men's Olympic Downhill (53%) DH cnx  heavy snowfall; moved to Beaver Creek on 5 December 2021
1820 3 27 November 2021   DH 504  Austria Matthias Mayer Austria Vincent Kriechmayr  Switzerland  Beat Feuz  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [5]
28 November 2021   SG cnx  heavy snowfall; moved to Bormio on 30 December 2021
1821 4 [b]2 December 2021   United States Beaver Creek Birds of Prey (68%) SG 224   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt Austria Matthias Mayer Canada Broderick Thompson  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [6]
1822 5 3 December 2021   SG 225  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt United States Travis Ganong [7]
1823 6 4 December 2021   DH 505  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde Austria Matthias Mayer  Switzerland  Beat Feuz [8]
[c]5 December 2021   DH cnx  rescheduled downhill from Lake Louise cancelled due to strong wind; moved to Kvitfjell on 4 March 2022
1824 7 11 December 2021   France Val d'Isère La face de Bellevarde (71%) GS 431   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt France Alexis Pinturault Austria Manuel Feller  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [9]
1825 8 12 December 2021   SL 509  France Clément Noël Sweden Kristoffer Jakobsen Croatia Filip Zubčić [10]
1826 9 17 December 2021   Italy Val Gardena/Gröden Saslong (56.9%) SG 226  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde Austria Matthias Mayer Austria Vincent Kriechmayr [11]
1827 10 18 December 2021   DH 506  United States Bryce Bennett Austria Otmar Striedinger  Switzerland  Niels Hintermann [12]
1828 11 19 December 2021   Italy Alta Badia Gran Risa (69%) GS 432  NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt Austria Manuel Feller [13]
1829 12 20 December 2021   GS 433   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt Italy Luca De Aliprandini Germany Alexander Schmid [14]
1830 13 22 December 2021   Italy Madonna di Campiglio Canalone Miramonti (60%) SL 510  NorwaySebastian Foss-Solevåg France Alexis Pinturault Sweden Kristoffer Jakobsen [15]
1831 14 28 December 2021   Italy Bormio Stelvio (63%) DH 507  Italy Dominik Paris  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt  Switzerland  Niels Hintermann [16]
1832 15 29 December 2021   SG 227  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde Austria Raphael Haaser Austria Vincent Kriechmayr [17]
[d]30 December 2021   SG cnx  rescheduled SG from Lake Louise; warm weather, moved to Wengen on 13 January 2022
5 January 2022   Croatia Zagreb Crveni spust SL cnx  cancelled due to high temperatures and wind; rescheduled to 6 January 2022
[e]6 January 2022   SL cnx  cancelled after 19 skiers in the 1st run; poor snow conditions; moved to Flachau on 9 March 2022
1833 16 8 January 2022    Switzerland  Adelboden Chuenisbärgli (60%) GS 434   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt Austria Manuel Feller France Alexis Pinturault  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [18]
1834 17 9 January 2022   SL 511  Austria Johannes Strolz Austria Manuel Feller Germany Linus Straßer [19]
1835 18 [f]13 January 2022    Switzerland  Wengen Lauberhorn (90%) SG 228   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde Austria Matthias Mayer [20]
1836 19 14 January 2022   DH 508  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt  Switzerland  Beat Feuz [21]
1837 20 15 January 2022   DH 509  Austria Vincent Kriechmayr  Switzerland  Beat Feuz Italy Dominik Paris [22]
1838 21 16 January 2022   Männlichen (72%) SL 512  NorwayLucas Braathen  Switzerland  Daniel Yule Italy Giuliano Razzoli [23]
1839 22 21 January 2022   Austria Kitzbühel Streif (85%) DH 510  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde France Johan Clarey France Blaise Giezendanner [24]
1840 23 [g]22 January 2022   Ganslern (70%) SL 513  United Kingdom Dave Ryding NorwayLucas Braathen NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen [25]
1841 24 [h]23 January 2022   Streif (85%) DH 511   Switzerland  Beat Feuz  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt Austria Daniel Hemetsberger [26]
1842 25 25 January 2022   Austria Schladming Planai (54%) SL 514  Germany Linus Straßer NorwayAtle Lie McGrath Austria Manuel Feller [27]
2022 Winter Olympics (7–16 February)
1843 26 26 February 2022   Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gudiberg (58%) SL 515  NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard Austria Manuel Feller  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [28]
1844 27 27 February 2022   SL 516  NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen United Kingdom Dave Ryding Germany Linus Straßer [29]
1845 28 [i]4 March 2022   NorwayKvitfjell Olympiabakken DH 512  Canada Cameron Alexander
 Switzerland  Niels Hintermann
Austria Matthias Mayer [30]
1846 29 5 March 2022   DH 513  Italy Dominik Paris NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde  Switzerland  Beat Feuz
 Switzerland  Niels Hintermann
[31]
1847 30 6 March 2022   SG 229  NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde Canada James Crawford Austria Matthias Mayer [32]
1848 31 9 March 2022   Austria Flachau H.-Maier-Weltcupstrecke (53%) SL 517  NorwayAtle Lie McGrath France Clément Noël  Switzerland  Daniel Yule [33]
1849 32 12 March 2022   Slovenia Kranjska Gora Podkoren 3 (59%) GS 435  NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen NorwayLucas Braathen
 Switzerland  Marco Odermatt
[34]
1850 33 13 March 2022   GS 436  NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen Austria Stefan Brennsteiner  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [35]
World Cup Season Final
1851 34 16 March 2022   France Courchevel L'Éclipse DH 514  Austria Vincent Kriechmayr  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt  Switzerland  Beat Feuz  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt [36]
1852 35 17 March 2022   SG 230  Austria Vincent Kriechmayr  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt  Switzerland  Gino Caviezel [37]
1853 36 19 March 2022   France Méribel Roc de Fer GS 437   Switzerland  Marco Odermatt NorwayLucas Braathen  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard [38]
1854 37 20 March 2022   SL 518  NorwayAtle Lie McGrath NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen Austria Manuel Feller [39]

Rankings

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Women

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The number of races in the World Cup history
Total DH SG GS SL AC PS PG CE K.O. Winners
1734 433 253 435 487 106 6 3 10 1 254

after GS in Méribel (20 March 2022)

Calendar

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Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, SG – Super giant slalom, PG – Parallel giant slalom
# Event Date Venue Slope (incline) Type Winner Second Third Overall leader Ref.
1698 1 23 October 2021   Austria Sölden Rettenbach (68.2%) GS 427  United States Mikaela Shiffrin  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami Slovakia Petra Vlhová United States Mikaela Shiffrin [46]
1699 2 13 November 2021   Austria Lech/Zürs Flexenarena (50%) PG 003  Slovenia Andreja Slokar NorwayThea Louise Stjernesund NorwayKristin Lysdahl Slovenia Andreja Slokar [47]
1700 3 20 November 2021   Finland Levi Levi Black (52%) SL 479  Slovakia Petra Vlhová United States Mikaela Shiffrin Germany Lena Dürr United States Mikaela Shiffrin [48]
1701 4 21 November 2021   SL 480  Slovakia Petra Vlhová United States Mikaela Shiffrin Germany Lena Dürr Slovakia Petra Vlhová
United States Mikaela Shiffrin
[49]
27 November 2021   United States Killington Superstar GS cnx  cancelled in first run after 9 skiers due to strong wind; moved to Courchevel on 22 December 2021
1702 5 28 November 2021   SL 481  United States Mikaela Shiffrin Slovakia Petra Vlhová  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener United States Mikaela Shiffrin [50]
1703 6 3 December 2021   Canada Lake Louise Men's Olympic Downhill (53%) DH 425  Italy Sofia Goggia United States Breezy Johnson Austria Mirjam Puchner [51]
1704 7 4 December 2021   DH 426  Italy Sofia Goggia United States Breezy Johnson  Switzerland  Corinne Suter [52]
1705 8 5 December 2021   SG 245  Italy Sofia Goggia  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami Austria Mirjam Puchner [53]
1706 9 11 December 2021    Switzerland  St. Moritz Corviglia (61%)[j] SG 246   Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami Italy Sofia Goggia United States Mikaela Shiffrin [54]
1707 10 12 December 2021   SG 247  Italy Federica Brignone Italy Elena Curtoni United States Mikaela Shiffrin [55]
1708 11 18 December 2021   France Val d'Isère Piste Oreiller-Killy (52%) DH 427  Italy Sofia Goggia United States Breezy Johnson Austria Mirjam Puchner Italy Sofia Goggia [56]
1709 12 19 December 2021   SG 248  Italy Sofia Goggia NorwayRagnhild Mowinckel Italy Elena Curtoni [57]
1710 13 21 December 2021   France Courchevel Stade Émile-Allais (58.5%) GS 428  United States Mikaela Shiffrin Sweden Sara Hector  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin United States Mikaela Shiffrin [58]
1711 14 [k]22 December 2021   GS 429  Sweden Sara Hector United States Mikaela Shiffrin Italy Marta Bassino [59]
1712 15 28 December 2021   Austria Lienz Schlossberg (47%) GS 430  France Tessa Worley Slovakia Petra Vlhová Sweden Sara Hector [60]
1713 16 29 December 2021   SL 482  Slovakia Petra Vlhová Austria Katharina Liensberger  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin [61]
1714 17 4 January 2022   Croatia Zagreb Crveni spust SL 483  Slovakia Petra Vlhová United States Mikaela Shiffrin Austria Katharina Liensberger [62]
8 January 2022   Slovenia Maribor Miranova proga A GS cnx  cancelled due to warm weather and lack of snow; both events will be replaced in Kranjska Gora on the same dates
9 January 2022   SL cnx 
1715 18 [l]8 January 2022   Slovenia Kranjska Gora Podkoren 3 (59%) GS 431  Sweden Sara Hector France Tessa Worley Italy Marta Bassino United States Mikaela Shiffrin [63]
1716 19 [l]9 January 2022   SL 484  Slovakia Petra Vlhová  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener Sweden Anna Swenn-Larsson [64]
11 January 2022   Austria Flachau H.-Maier-Weltcupstrecke (53%) SL cnx  extreme high COVID-19 numbers in Flachau; replaced in Schladming on the same date
1717 20 [m]11 January 2022   Austria Schladming Planai (54%) SL 485  United States Mikaela Shiffrin Slovakia Petra Vlhová Germany Lena Dürr United States Mikaela Shiffrin [65]
1718 21 15 January 2022   Austria Zauchensee Kälberloch (70%) DH 428   Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami Germany Kira Weidle Austria Ramona Siebenhofer [66]
1719 22 16 January 2022   SG 249  Italy Federica Brignone  Switzerland  Corinne Suter Austria Ariane Rädler [67]
1720 23 22 January 2022   Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo Olimpia delle Tofane (65%) DH 429  Italy Sofia Goggia Austria Ramona Siebenhofer Czech Republic Ester Ledecká [68]
1721 24 23 January 2022   SG 250  Italy Elena Curtoni Austria Tamara Tippler  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin [69]
1722 25 25 January 2022   Italy Kronplatz Erta (61%) GS 432  Sweden Sara Hector Slovakia Petra Vlhová France Tessa Worley [70]
1723 26 29 January 2022   Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Kandahar 1 (85%) DH 430   Switzerland  Corinne Suter  Switzerland  Jasmine Flury Austria Cornelia Hütter [71]
1724 27 30 January 2022   SG 251  Italy Federica Brignone
Austria Cornelia Hütter
Austria Tamara Tippler [72]
2022 Winter Olympics (7–17 February)
1725 28 26 February 2022    Switzerland  Crans-Montana Mont Lachaux DH 431  Czech Republic Ester Ledecká NorwayRagnhild Mowinckel Austria Cornelia Hütter United States Mikaela Shiffrin [73]
1726 29 27 February 2022   DH 432   Switzerland  Priska Nufer Czech Republic Ester Ledecká Italy Sofia Goggia Slovakia Petra Vlhová
United States Mikaela Shiffrin
[74]
1727 30 5 March 2022    Switzerland  Lenzerheide Silvano Beltrametti piste (65%) SG 252  France Romane Miradoli United States Mikaela Shiffrin  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami United States Mikaela Shiffrin [75]
1728 31 6 March 2022   GS 433  France Tessa Worley Italy Federica Brignone Sweden Sara Hector [76]
1729 32 11 March 2022   Sweden Åre Olympia GS 434  Slovakia Petra Vlhová Italy Marta Bassino United States Mikaela Shiffrin [77]
1730 33 12 March 2022   SL 486  Austria Katharina Liensberger NorwayMina Fürst Holtmann  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin [78]
World Cup Season Final
1731 34 16 March 2022   France Courchevel L'Éclipse DH 433  United States Mikaela Shiffrin Austria Christine Scheyer
 Switzerland  Joana Hählen
United States Mikaela Shiffrin [79]
1732 35 17 March 2022   SG 253  NorwayRagnhild Mowinckel United States Mikaela Shiffrin  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin [80]
1733 36 19 March 2022   France Méribel Roc de Fer SL 487  Slovenia Andreja Slokar Germany Lena Dürr Slovakia Petra Vlhová [81]
1734 37 20 March 2022   GS 435  Italy Federica Brignone Italy Marta Bassino Slovakia Petra Vlhová [82]

Rankings

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Alpine team event

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World Cup history in real time
Total SL + SG PG Winners
16 3 13 6

after PG in Méribel (18 March 2022)

Calendar

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Event key: PG – Parallel giant slalom
# Event Date Venue Slope (incline) Type Winner Second Third Nations Cup leader Ref.
2022 Winter Olympics (20 February)
World Cup Season Final
16 1 18 March 2022   France Méribel Roc de Fer PG 013   Switzerland
Delphine Darbellay
Andrea Ellenberger
Fadri Janutin
Livio Simonet
 Austria
Stefan Brennsteiner
Patrick Feurstein
Fabio Gstrein*
Ricarda Haaser
Katharina Huber*
Katharina Truppe
 Germany
Lena Dürr
Fabian Gratz
Antonia Kermer
Julian Rauchfuß
 Austria (Overall & Women)
  Switzerland  (Men)
[89]

* reserve skiers

Nations Cup

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Prize money

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Podium table by nation

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Table showing the World Cup podium places (gold–1st place, silver–2nd place, bronze–3rd place) by the countries represented by the athletes.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Norway1711331
2 Switzerland14172051
3 Italy136625
4 Austria8162044
5 United States69419
6 Slovakia64313
7 France45312
8 Sweden3249
9 Slovenia2013
10 Germany12710
11 Canada1113
 Czech Republic1113
13 Great Britain1102
14 Croatia0011
Totals (14 entries)777574226

Achievements

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First World Cup career victory
First World Cup podium
Number of wins this season (in brackets are all-time wins)

Retirements

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The following athletes announced their retirements during or after the season:

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c To award an event World Cup trophy at least two (2) events must be held in the current season.
  2. ^ Men's super-G from Beaver Creek originally scheduled for December 5, 2021 was rescheduled to December 2, 2021 due to program change with additional downhill.
  3. ^ Men's downhill from Lake Louise originally scheduled for December 5, 2021 was rescheduled to Beaver Creek.
  4. ^ Men's super-G from Lake Louise originally scheduled for November 28, 2021 was rescheduled on December 30, 2021 to Bormio.
  5. ^ Men's slalom from Zagreb originally scheduled for January 5, 2022 was rescheduled on January 6, 2022
  6. ^ Men's super-G from Bormio originally scheduled for December 30, 2021 was rescheduled on January 13, 2022 to Wengen.
  7. ^ Rescheduled from 23 January 2022.
  8. ^ Rescheduled from 22 January 2022.
  9. ^ Men's downhill from Lake Louise originally scheduled for 5 December 2021 was moved to Kvitfjell on 4 March 2022.
  10. ^ Corviglia full downhill course in St. Moritz with "Free Fall", new start constructed by Bernhard Russi specially for W. Championships 2003, has the steepest incline in World Cup circuit with 45 degrees (100%). Super-G course has max. incline at 61%, due to lower start.
  11. ^ Women's cancelled giant slalom from Killington, was rescheduled on December 22, 2021 to Courchevel.
  12. ^ a b Women's cancelled slalom and giant slalom from Maribor originally scheduled on January 8 and 9, 2022 respectively, will be replaced on the same date in Kranjska Gora.
  13. ^ Moved from Flachau to Schladming.

References

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  1. ^ "FIS Alpine Skiing - Calendar". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Russian and Belarusian Athletes not to take part in FIS Competitions". FIS. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Sölden Men (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Lech-Zürs Men (AUT)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  5. ^