1981 Alpine Skiing World Cup

1981 Alpine Skiing World Cup season
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The 15th World Cup season began in December 1980 in France and concluded in March 1981 in Switzerland. Phil Mahre became the first American to win an overall title, the first of his three consecutive overall titles. Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland won the women's overall title.

Men

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	December 7, 1980
2	Slalom	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 9, 1980
3	Giant	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	December 10, 1980
4	Downhill	Val Gardena	Italy	December 14, 1980
5	Combined	Race 2 and 4
6	Downhill	Val Gardena	Italy	December 15, 1980
7	Downhill	St. Moritz	Switzerland	December 21, 1980
8	Giant	Ebnat Kappel	Switzerland	January 4, 1981
9	Combined	Race 1 and 8
10	Giant	Morzine	France	January 6, 1981
11	Downhill	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	West Germany	January 10, 1981
12	Combined	Race 10 and 11
13	Slalom	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	West Germany	January 11, 1981
14	Slalom	Oberstaufen	West Germany	January 13, 1981
15	Downhill	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 17, 1981
16	Combined	Race 14 and 15
17	Slalom	Kitzbühel	Austria	January 18, 1981
18	Downhill	Wengen	Switzerland	January 24, 1981
19	Slalom	Wengen	Switzerland	January 25, 1981
20	Giant	Adelboden	Switzerland	January 26, 1981
21	Downhill	St. Anton	Austria	January 31, 1981
22	Slalom	St. Anton	Austria	February 1, 1981
23	Combined	Race 21 and 22
24	Giant	Schladming	Austria	February 2, 1981
25	Slalom	Oslo	Norway	February 8, 1981
26	Giant	Voss	Norway	February 11, 1981
27	Giant	Åre	Sweden	February 14, 1981
28	Slalom	Åre	Sweden	February 15, 1981
29	Downhill	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 5, 1981
30	Downhill	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 6, 1981
31	Giant	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 7, 1981
32	Giant	Furano	Japan	March 14, 1981
33	Slalom	Furano	Japan	March 15, 1981
34	Giant	Borovets	Bulgaria	March 24, 1981
35	Slalom	Borovets	Bulgaria	March 25, 1981
36	Giant	Laax	Switzerland	March 28, 1981

Men's overall results

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In Men's Overall World Cup 1980/81 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms, best five slaloms and best three combined count. 28 racers had a point deduction. Ingemar Stenmark had 156 points deduction and won 10 races. For the first time he tried to score points in combined and was able to collect 15 points - not enough to win the Overall World Cup.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined
1	Phil Mahre	United States	266	10	84	97	75
2	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	260	0	125	120	15
3	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	185	0	115	70	0
4	Steve Mahre	United States	155	0	46	80	29
5	Peter Müller	Switzerland	140	95	0	0	45
6	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	137	0	40	80	17
7	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	130	9	38	28	55
8	Harti Weirather	Austria	115	115	0	0	0
9	Steve Podborski	Canada	110	110	0	0	0
10	Christian Orlainsky	Austria	105	0	61	44	0
11	Joël Gaspoz	Switzerland	102	0	71	31	0
12	Leonhard Stock	Austria	97	43	34	0	20
13	Jarle Halsnes	Norway	95	0	50	45	0
14	Hans Enn	Austria	93	2	52	8	31
15	Jacques Lüthy	Switzerland	84	0	53	11	20
16	Bruno Nöckler	Italy	79	0	56	23	0
17	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	77	0	0	77	0
18	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	73	73	0	0	0
	Valeri Tsyganov	Soviet Union	73	55	1	0	17
20	Vladimir Andreev	Soviet Union	72	0	10	62	0

Men's Downhill results

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In Men's Downhill World Cup 1980/81 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	4	6	7	11	15	18	21	29	30
1	Harti Weirather	Austria	115	-	20	25	(10)	(15)	(11)	20	25	(20)	25
2	Steve Podborski	Canada	110	15	(15)	(6)	25	25	25	(15)	(15)	(6)	20
3	Peter Müller	Switzerland	95	-	25	15	15	20	20	-	-	(12)	(11)
4	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	73	-	-	-	20	9	15	(6)	20	9	(3)
5	Ulrich Spieß	Austria	56	25	11	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	Valeri Tsyganov	Soviet Union	55	3	-	-	12	-	4	11	-	25	-
	Toni Bürgler	Switzerland	55	-	-	7	-	11	-	25	-	-	12
8	Gerhard Pfaffenbichler	Austria	48	8	-	-	3	-	-	-	12	15	10
9	Helmut Höflehner	Austria	47	-	8	-	-	12	10	7	(5)	10	(5)
10	Franz Heinzer	Switzerland	43	-	-	-	-	-	8	4	9	7	15
	Leonhard Stock	Austria	43	-	10	11	11	-	-	-	-	5	6

Men's Giant Slalom results

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In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1980/81 the best 5 results count. 15 racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points. He won his seventh Giant Slalom World Cup in a row! This record is still unbeaten!

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	3	8	10	20	24	26	27	31	32	34	36
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	125	25	-	25	25	25	25	(25)	(20)	(15)	(20)	(15)
2	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	115	20	-	(5)	-	(9)	20	(20)	(10)	25	25	25
3	Phil Mahre	United States	84	(8)	12	12	(8)	(10)	(10)	15	25	-	(11)	20
4	Joël Gaspoz	Switzerland	71	-	(7)	20	-	(4)	12	-	12	12	15	(3)
5	Jean-Luc Fournier	Switzerland	62	-	15	-	9	15	-	12	11	(3)	-	(6)
6	Christian Orlainsky	Austria	61	2	25	6	20	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	Bruno Nöckler	Italy	56	10	8	11	(6)	12	15	-	(8)	(6)	(3)	-
8	Jacques Lüthy	Switzerland	53	9	10	(7)	12	11	(6)	11	-	(8)	-	-
9	Hans Enn	Austria	52	12	20	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
10	Jarle Halsnes	Norway	50	-	(4)	-	11	(7)	11	8	-	-	12	8

Men's Slalom results

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In Men's Slalom World Cup 1980/81 the best 5 results count. 13 racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won his seventh Slalom World Cup in a row! This record is still unbeaten!

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	2	13	14	17	19	22	25	28	33	35
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	120	25	-	20	25	(15)	25	25	(20)	(15)	(11)
2	Phil Mahre	United States	97	-	(6)	12	-	(5)	20	(12)	25	25	15
3	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	80	15	12	(4)	-	25	8	-	-	20	(6)
	Steve Mahre	United States	80	-	25	15	-	(9)	-	10	-	10	20
5	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	77	20	15	25	-	(7)	-	9	8	-	-
6	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	70	-	-	10	(7)	12	(3)	11	-	12	25
7	Vladimir Andreev	Soviet Union	62	-	(4)	5	20	-	12	15	10	(5)	-
8	Piero Gros	Italy	48	9	11	9	-	(3)	-	8	11	(2)	(2)
9	Stig Strand	Sweden	46	11	9	(1)	10	9	7	(6)	(7)	(6)	(3)
10	Bengt Fjällberg	Sweden	45	-	-	-	3	-	-	20	12	-	10
	Jarle Halsnes	Norway	45	-	-	-	-	6	15	7	(6)	8	9
	Franz Gruber	Austria	45	7	-	7	-	(1)	(4)	-	15	9	7

Men's combined results

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In Men's Combined World Cup 1980/81 all 5 results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	5	9	12	16	23
1	Phil Mahre	United States	102	12	15	25	25	25
2	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	55	15	25	15	-	-
3	Peter Müller	Switzerland	45	25	-	20	-	-
4	Hans Enn	Austria	31	11	20	-	-	-
5	Steve Mahre	United States	29	9	-	-	20	-
6	Siegfried Kerschbaumer	Italy	28	7	10	11	-	-
7	Leonhard Stock	Austria	20	20	-	11	-	-
	Jacques Lüthy	Switzerland	20	8	12	-	-	-
	Herbert Plank	Italy	20	-	-	-	-	20
	Even Hole	Norway	20	-	-	-	8	12

Men's Team results

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Austria	1064	597	300	116	51	23	5
2	Switzerland	641	309	198	48	86	13	3
3	United States	596	55	180	219	142	8	7
4	Sweden	553	0	231	305	17	6	10
5	Soviet Union	419	81	170	151	17	4	5
6	Italy	350	44	98	160	48	11	0
7	Canada	264	264	0	0	0	5	3
	Yugoslavia	264	0	111	100	53	7	1
9	Liechtenstein	217	9	41	112	55	2	2
10	Norway	187	0	104	63	20	4	0
11	France	93	6	75	12	0	7	0
12	West Germany	88	21	5	18	44	9	0
13	Luxembourg	51	0	11	40	0	1	0
14	Japan	34	0	0	15	19	3	0
15	Bulgaria	24	0	0	24	0	1	0
16	Belgium	18	0	0	0	18	1	0
17	Czechoslovakia	16	0	0	0	16	2	0
18	Ireland	7	0	0	0	7	1	0

Women

Calendar

Race No	Discipline	Place	Country	Date
1	Downhill	Val d'Isère	France	December 3, 1980
2	Giant	Val d'Isère	France	December 4, 1980
3	Combined	Race 1 and 2
4	Giant	Limone Piemonte	Italy	December 8, 1980
5	Downhill	Piancavallo	Italy	December 12, 1980
6	Combined	Race 4 and 5
7	Slalom	Piancavallo	Italy	December 13, 1980
8	Downhill	Altenmarkt	Austria	December 17, 1980
9	Slalom	Altenmarkt	Austria	December 18, 1980
10	Slalom	Bormio	Italy	December 21, 1980
11	Downhill	Pfronten	West Germany	January 8, 1981
12	Downhill	Schruns	Austria	January 12, 1981
13	Slalom	Schruns	Austria	January 13, 1981
14	Downhill	Crans Montana	Switzerland	January 19, 1981
15	Slalom	Crans Montana	Switzerland	January 21, 1981
16	Combined	Race 14 and 15
17	Giant	Haute Nendaz	Switzerland	January 22, 1981
18	Giant	Les Gets	France	January 24, 1981
19	Downhill	Megève	France	January 28, 1981
20	Combined	Race 18 and 19
21	Downhill	Megève	France	January 29, 1981
22	Slalom	Les Diablerets	Switzerland	January 31, 1981
23	Salom	Zwiesel	West Germany	February 3, 1981
24	Giant	Zwiesel	West Germany	February 4, 1981
25	Downhill	Haus im Ennstal	Austria	February 8, 1981
26	Combined	Race 23 and 25
27	Giant	Maribor	Yugoslavia	February 10, 1981
28	Downhill	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 6, 1981
29	Giant	Aspen, Colorado	United States	March 8, 1981
30	Giant	Furano	Japan	March 13, 1981
31	Slalom	Furano	Japan	March 15, 1981
32	Slalom	Wangs-Pizol	Switzerland	March 24, 1981
33	Giant	Wangs-Pizol	Switzerland	March 25, 1981

Women's overall results

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In Women's Overall World Cup 1980/81 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms, best five slaloms and best three combined count. 19 racers had a point deduction. Marie-Theres Nadig won 9 races.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined
1	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	289	120	97	7	65
2	Erika Hess	Switzerland	251	5	78	125	43
3	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	241	42	78	59	62
4	Christin Cooper	United States	198	2	69	86	41
5	Irene Epple	West Germany	181	71	78	1	31
6	Tamara McKinney	United States	176	0	102	52	22
	Perrine Pelen	France	176	0	60	81	35
8	Cindy Nelson	United States	168	60	48	29	31
9	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	165	21	63	29	52
10	Fabienne Serrat	France	149	0	45	63	41
11	Daniela Zini	Italy	137	0	56	81	0
12	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	112	41	14	22	35
13	Doris de Agostini	Switzerland	110	110	0	0	0
14	Maria Epple	West Germany	102	0	71	31	0
15	Olga Charvátová	Czechoslovakia	84	7	31	25	21
16	Cornelia Pröll	Austria	78	78	0	0	0
17	Wanda Bieler	Italy	75	0	60	15	0
18	Maria Rosa Quario	Italy	64	0	29	35	0
19	Holly Flanders	United States	63	60	0	0	3
20	Torill Fjeldstad	Norway	62	62	0	0	0

Women's Downhill results

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In Women's Downhill World Cup 1980/81 the best 5 results count. Ten racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	5	8	11	12	14	19	21	25	28
1	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	120	25	25	-	(2)	-	25	20	25	(5)	(9)
2	Doris de Agostini	Switzerland	110	-	(15)	20	20	25	20	25	(20)	(12)	(10)
3	Cornelia Pröll	Austria	78	(9)	(10)	12	25	-	(3)	11	15	15	-
4	Irene Epple	West Germany	71	15	-	11	10	15	-	(10)	(3)	20	-
5	Torill Fjeldstad	Norway	62	-	20	15	-	-	-	15	2	10	-
6	Jana Šoltýsová	Czechoslovakia	61	(2)	(6)	25	7	8	12	(4)	9	-	-
7	Cindy Nelson	United States	60	-	(5)	(4)	11	20	7	(1)	7	-	15
	Holly Flanders	United States	60	-	9	(5)	15	-	(8)	12	12	(8)	12
9	Elisabeth Kirchler	Austria	42	-	-	-	5	-	5	-	-	7	25
	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	42	-	-	-	8	10	-	5	(4)	11	8
11	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	41	7	-	-	-	-	9	8	11	6	-
12	Gerry Sorensen	Canada	39	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	11	25	-

Women's Giant Slalom results

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In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1980/81 the best 5 results count. 12 racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	1	4	17	18	24	27	29	30	33
1	Tamara McKinney	United States	102	(10)	-	25	25	15	(9)	25	12	-
2	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	97	11	25	11	(6)	(10)	25	-	25	-
3	Erika Hess	Switzerland	78	(6)	11	(2)	-	(2)	12	20	10	25
	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	78	-	-	20	15	8	(8)	(4)	20	15
	Irene Epple	West Germany	78	25	-	15	-	(5)	15	(8)	11	12
6	Maria Epple	West Germany	71	(1)	-	-	12	25	20	7	(6)	7
7	Christin Cooper	United States	69	-	(8)	12	-	11	11	(2)	15	20
8	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	63	15	-	8	20	20	-	-	-	-
9	Wanda Bieler	Italy	60	-	12	10	11	12	-	15	-	(2)
	Perrine Pelen	France	60	20	10	(5)	9	9	(5)	12	-	-
11	Daniela Zini	Italy	56	8	20	9	10	-	-	9	-	-

Women's Slalom results

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In Women's Slalom World Cup 1980/81 the best 5 results count. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Erika Hess won six races in a row. She won the World Cup with maximum points.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	7	9	10	13	15	22	23	31	32
1	Erika Hess	Switzerland	125	(20)	-	(15)	25	25	25	25	25	(25)
2	Christin Cooper	United States	86	11	(9)	(10)	(10)	20	20	15	20	-
3	Daniela Zini	Italy	81	-	15	-	11	(11)	15	20	(8)	20
	Perrine Pelen	France	81	10	25	25	-	-	11	(8)	(9)	10
5	Fabienne Serrat	France	63	25	11	10	-	7	10	(2)	(2)	(7)
6	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	59	-	-	-	12	15	-	10	10	12
7	Tamara McKinney	United States	52	5	-	-	15	-	9	-	12	11
8	Piera Macchi	Italy	51	-	12	-	8	8	12	-	11	-
9	Nadezhda Patrikeyeva	Soviet Union	46	12	7	20	-	-	1	-	6	-
10	Claudia Giordani	Italy	43	-	8	11	20	-	4	-	-	-

Women's combined results

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In Women's Combined World Cup 1980/81 all 5 results count.

Place	Name	Country	Total Points	3	6	16	20	26
1	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	86	25	25	9	15	12
2	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	62	-	-	12	25	25
3	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	52	15	-	25	12	-
4	Erika Hess	Switzerland	51	8	15	20	-	8
5	Fabienne Serrat	France	50	11	20	10	9	-
6	Christin Cooper	United States	41	-	11	15	-	15
7	Cindy Nelson	United States	40	5	10	11	10	4
8	Perrine Pelen	France	35	12	12	-	11	-
	Maria Walliser	Switzerland	35	-	9	6	-	20
10	Irene Epple	West Germany	31	20	-	4	-	7

Women's Team results

Place	Country	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Switzerland	1086	392	239	256	199	13	18
2	United States	833	204	261	225	143	9	3
3	West Germany	642	156	275	80	131	10	3
4	France	518	105	138	190	85	9	3
5	Italy	427	0	167	260	0	9	0
6	Austria	324	258	23	25	18	16	2
7	Liechtenstein	304	46	99	89	70	3	2
8	Czechoslovakia	158	80	32	25	21	2	1
9	Canada	107	82	5	0	20	4	1
10	Norway	62	62	0	0	0	1	0
11	Soviet Union	49	0	3	46	0	1	0
12	Yugoslavia	48	0	0	45	3	5	0
13	Poland	2	0	0	2	0	1	0
14	Spain	1	0	1	0	0	1	0

Nationscup

Place	Country	Total Points	Men	Women
1	Switzerland	1727	641	1086
2	United States	1429	596	833
3	Austria	1388	1064	324
4	Italy	777	350	427
5	West Germany	730	88	642
6	France	611	93	518
7	Sweden	553	553	0
8	Liechtenstein	521	217	304
9	Soviet Union	468	419	49
10	Canada	371	264	107
11	Yugoslavia	312	264	48
12	Norway	249	187	62
13	Czechoslovakia	174	16	158
14	Luxembourg	51	51	0
15	Japan	34	34	0
16	Bulgaria	24	24	0
17	Belgium	18	18	0
18	Ireland	7	7	0
19	Poland	2	0	2
20	Spain	1	0	1

External links

FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1981
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup at SVT's open archive (including the 1980-1981 season) (Swedish)

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

International Ski Federation FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

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