The 47th

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season began on 27 October 2012, in

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, Austria, and concluded on 17 March 2013, at the World Cup finals in

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, Switzerland. The overall titles were won by

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of Austria and

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of Slovenia. A break in the schedule was for the biennial

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, held 4–17 February in

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, Austria. Changes for the 2013 season included the awarding of World Cup points for the slalom crystal globe for the limited field city events (parallel slalom), not just in the overall standings. Also, a crystal globe trophy was no longer awarded for the combined event, as many organizers considered the event difficult to market, but its results still counted in the overall rankings. Maze became the first Slovenian to win an overall World Cup title; she clinched it on 24 February after her eighth victory of the season, a super-combined race at Méribel, France. Her victory in a downhill race at

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in Germany on 2 March gave her wins in all five disciplines for the season, and she became the first racer in World Cup history to score more than 2,000 points in a single season. The previous record of 2,000 points was held by

Hermann Maier Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup tit ...

, set during the

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"Tina Maze is the Slovenian beauty who'll be Lindsey Vonn's biggest adversary at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014"
Nathaniel Vinton, 16 March 2013. Maze broke various statistical records in this season, including the highest number of podiums in a season (24, record previously held by Maier (22) and by

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and

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for ladies (18)), highest number of top 5 finishes (31, previously Maier and Wiberg (24)), highest number of points after first 10 races (677, previously

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, 643), largest percent of possible points won (69%, previously 61% by Wiberg), and the highest margin over the runner-up (1313, compared to 743 for Maier and 578 for

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. She is also the first woman to remain at the top of the overall standings throughout the season - a feat previously achieved only by

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. In addition to the overall title, Maze won the super-G and giant slalom titles, finished at the top of the combined list by winning both races in the season, and finished second in the downhill and slalom. Those titles went respectively to two Americans, Vonn and

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. Vonn's season ended with a knee injury on 5 February at the World Championships, but she held on to win the downhill title by a single point after the final race was cancelled. Three days after turning 18, Shiffrin won the final slalom race at Lenzerheide on 16 March to overtake Maze and win that discipline's season title by 33 points. The men's overall title wasn't decided until the World Cup finals at Lenzerheide. A runner-up finish in the giant slalom on 16 March gave Hirscher his second consecutive overall title, the first male to achieve this feat since Stephan Eberharter in

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and

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. Hirscher also won the slalom title, while the downhill and super-G titles went to

Aksel Lund Svindal Aksel Lund Svindal (born 26 December 1982) is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Lørenskog in Akershus county, Svindal is a two-time overall World Cup champion (2007 and 2009), an Olympic gold medalist in super-G at the 20 ...

of Norway, the sixth and seventh discipline titles for the former two-time overall champion. The giant slalom title went to American

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, who won six of the eight GS races for his fourth season title in that discipline.

Calendar

Men

Ladies

Nation team event

Men's standings

Overall

Downhill

Super-G

Giant slalom

Slalom

Super combined

Womens' standings

Overall

Downhill

Super-G

Giant slalom

Slalom

Super combined

Nations Cup

Overall

*Final standings after 69 races.

Men

*Final standings after 34 races.

Ladies

*Final standings after 35 races.

Podium table by nation

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

Footnotes

References

External links

FIS-ski.com: Alpine skiing, FIS World CupFIS Alpine.com
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