1,716 points, three globes. Lara Gut-Behrami finished the 2023/24 World Cup as overall champion, 135 points ahead of Federica Brignone. Her first overall globe was in 2015/16. At 32 she is the oldest woman to win the overall. She also took the giant slalom and super-G globes. Only the downhill got away.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lara Gut-BehramiSUI | SUI | 1,716 |
| 2 | Federica BrignoneITA | ITA | 1,581 |
| 3 | Mikaela ShiffrinUSA | USA | 1,409 |
| 4 | Sara HectorSWE | SWE | 922 |
| 5 | Cornelia HütterAUT | AUT | 913 |
How the finals went
Giant slalom, Sunday 17 March. Gut-Behrami came to the last GS 95 points ahead of Brignone in the discipline. Brignone won the race by 1.36 seconds from Alice Robinson, her fourth GS win of the season. Gut-Behrami finished tenth, 3.22 back. That was enough for the GS globe and the overall.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Federica BrignoneITA | ITA | — |
| 2 | Alice RobinsonNZL | NZL | +1.36 |
| 3 | Thea Louise StjernesundNOR | NOR | n/a |
| 10 | Lara Gut-BehramiSUI | SUI | +3.22 |
Super-G, Friday. Ester Ledecká won by 0.28 from Brignone. Gut-Behrami was seventh and took the super-G globe by 30 points. It is her fifth in the discipline.
Downhill. Gut-Behrami came into the last weekend leading the downhill by 19 points, with Sofia Goggia out with a broken tibia. Cornelia Hütter took the downhill globe instead.
The season in brief
- Gut-Behrami in giant slalom: four wins from 11 races.
- Brignone: six wins and 12 podiums, second overall, second in GS, third in super-G.
- Shiffrin crashed in the Cortina downhill in January and missed 11 races. She still won the slalom globe, her eighth.
- Cortina downhill, 26 January: five skiers shared the podium, a first for the women’s World Cup.
Gut-Behrami scored in three disciplines all winter. Brignone won the last GS and came second in the last super-G, and it still was not enough.
Sources
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_%E2%80%93_…
- fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/news/2023-24/masterful-gut-beh…
- thestar.com.my/sport/others/2024/03/17/alpine-skiing-switze…
- flashscore.com/news/overall-champion-gut-behrami-adds-super…
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_FIS_Alpine_Ski_World_Cup