The St. Moritz Alpine Ski World Cup Speed Weekend
- Raúl Revuelta
- 4 days ago
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Updated: 1 day ago
Next weekend, the world's fastest Women will gather in St. Moritz for the first stop of the Alpine Ski World Cup speed calendar. Two Downhill and a Super-G races are scheduled to take place in the Upper Engadine Valley on the "Corviglia" racecourse. St. Moritz is a classic and a fixed date in the Women's Ski World Cup calendar.
St. Moritz (SUI)
December 12th Downhill / Women
December 13th Downhill / Women
December 14th Super-G / Women
Start altitude: 2,745m (DH), 2,590m (SG)
Finish altitude: 2,040m
Elevation difference: 715m (DH), 550m (SG)
Length: 2,633m (DH), 1,823m (SG)
St. Moritz's local mountain, Corviglia, has firmly established itself on the Women's Ski World Cup and European Cup calendars.
The Corviglia World Cup racecourse in St. Moritz, Switzerland, is a legendary Alpine skiing venue.
The Women's Downhill race, "Britannia," starts above the Munt da San Murezzan mountain station at 2,745 meters above sea level. The course then follows the Salastrains chairlift and passes the Super-G start at 2,590 meters above sea level. After the Berthod edge, the upper section of the course leads through the key sections of Lanigiro, Mauritius slope, and the "Panorama" triple turn around the wall before the athletes enter the Weisse Band. After Alp Gip, the course continues towards the Rominger jump, where jumps of up to 50 meters are possible. Finally, the racers descend at high speed through the Lärchenpassage into the Salastrains finish area.
St. Moritz has a permanent place in the international ski racing calendar. St. Moritz has hosted five Alpine Ski World Championships: in 1934, 1948, 1974, 2003, and 2017. It has also hosted two Olympic Games, in 1928 and 1948, which are the only ones ever held in Switzerland. It is one of a select group of locations, including Lake Placid and Innsbruck, to have hosted the Winter Olympics twice. In fact, the 1928 Games were the first official Winter Olympics – the 'test run' in Chamonix in 1924 was not officially recognised as such until much later.
Mikaela Shiffrin was the last woman to win a Downhill race in St. Moritz. In 2023, the American skier finished ahead of the Italian duo, Sofia Goggia (+0.15) and Federica Brignone (+0.17).
Last season, Cornelia Huetter won the Super-G event held in St. Moritz. She beat Lara Gut-Behrami by 0.18 seconds. Sofia Goggia finished third, 0.33 seconds behind the Austrian.
The Austrian skier, who won the first downhill of the 2024-2025 winter season at the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek, claimed her eighth Alpine World Cup victory, the fifth in the super-G. She was the first Austrian to win the Super-G in St. Moritz since Michaela Dorfmeister in 2006.
Lindsey Vonn made a spectacular comeback in St. Moritz in 2024. Wearing bib number 31 in her 396th World Cup race, her first since January 2019 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she finished 14th, 1.18 seconds behind Huetter.
2024 Super-G Cornelia Hütter
2023 Downhill Mikaela Shiffrin
2023 Super-G Sofia Goggia
2022 Downhill Elena Curtoni
2022 Downhill Sofia Goggia
2022 Super-G Mikaela Shiffrin
2021 Super-G Lara Gut-Behrami
2021 Super-G Federica Brignone
2019 Super-G Sofia Goggia
2018 Super-G Mikaela Shiffrin
2017 Super-G Jasmine Flury
2016 Downhill Mirjam Puchner
2016 Super-G Tina Weirather
2015 Downhill Lara Gut
2015 Super-G Lindsey Vonn
2013 Super-G Tina Weirather
2012 Downhill Lindsey Vonn
2012 Super-G Lindsey Vonn
2010 Downhill Maria Riesch
2010 Super-G Lindsey Vonn
2008 Downhill Tina Maze
2008 Super-G Emily Brydon
2008 Super-G Lara Gut
2007 Downhill Anja Paerson
2007 Super-G Anja Paerson
2006 Super-G Michaela Dorfmeister
2006 Downhill Michaela Dorfmeister
2004 Super-G Hilde Gerg
2003 Downhill Renate Goetschl
2001 Downhill Sylviane Berthod
2001 Super-G Karen Putzer
2000 Downhill Brigitte Obermoser
2000 Downhill Renate Goetschl
1999 Downhill Isolde Kostner
1999 Downhill Pernilla Wiberg
1999 Super-G Karen Putzer
1999 Super-G Michaela Dorfmeister
1999 Downhill Renate Goetschl
1973 Downhill Annemarie Moser-Proell
1971 Downhill Annemarie Moser-Proell
St. Moritz is more than just a holiday resort. It was also the birthplace of the Alpine winter holidays in 1864. Nevertheless, St. Moritz first became famous thanks to its mineral springs, which were discovered 3,000 years ago and established the town as a summer spa resort early on.
St. Moritz, which lies on the south side of the Alps, in the Upper Engadine Valley, at an elevation of 1,856 m, boasts plenty of sunny days. It was exactly this sun that was legally protected as the emblem of St. Moritz in 1930. St. Moritz was often ahead of the times - for example, the first electric light went on at Christmas time in 1878, the first golf tournament in the Alps took place here in 1889, and one of the first ski lifts in Switzerland began running in 1935.
St Moritz is Switzerland's most famous exclusive winter resort: glitzy, expensive, and fashionable. Few ski destinations can claim even one five-star hotel, but this sunny Swiss lakeside resort boasts five, including the all-suites Carlton, located in Tsar Nicolai II’s former vacation house. St. Moritz Dorf in the hillside over the lake includes Via Serlas’s jet-set shopping "luxury mile", with boutiques like Emilio Pucci, Gucci, Chanel, or jewelry stores like Bucherer, Cartier or Chopard. St. Moritz Bad, at the lake’s foot, hides local gems among its shops, restaurants, and hotels.
The valley offers nine ski areas accessed with a single ski pass. Several of them are connected by lifts; the rest are connected by bus. The Engadine Ski Paradise: St. Moritz-Corviglia, Corvatsch, and Diavolezza are synonymous with breathtaking and unforgettable skiing experiences. 60 modern transportation facilities open up on 350 km of snow-covered runs at altitudes from 1,800 to 3,300 meters above sea level on slopes in nine different skiing areas with 37 mountain restaurants.
