1978–79 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 1978/79
Discipline Men Women
Overall Peter Lüscher Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Downhill Peter Müller Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Giant slalom Ingemar Stenmark Christa Kinshofer
Slalom Ingemar Stenmark Regina Sackl
Nations Cup Austria Austria
Nations Cup overall Austria
Competition
Locations 18 14
Individual 33 26

The 13th World Cup season began in December 1978 in Austria and concluded in March 1979 in Japan.

The overall winners were Peter Lüscher of Switzerland, his first overall win, and Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, her sixth (which remained the record until 2017–18, when Austria's Marcel Hirscher won his seventh overall title). Although Ingemar Stenmark did not win the overall title due to restrictions on the number of races that counted for overall championship points, he won 13 races during the season (including the last four in a row and six of the last seven) to break Jean-Claude Killy's record of 12 race wins during the inaugural season of the World Cup, which (as of 2018) still stands as the record for most wins by a male skier in a World Cup season.

The World Cup race scoring system, which had remained unchanged since the start of the World Cup in 1967 as a "Top 10" points system (ranging from 25 points for first, 20 for second, 15 for third, and down to 1 point for tenth), was amended this season for the final two downhills and the final three giant slaloms and slaloms to a "Top 25" system (ranging from 25 points for first to 1 point for 25th). This system was abandoned after the end of the season, and a new "Top 15" system was introduced beginning in 1980.

Calendar

Men

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, KB – Combined, PS – Parallel slalom (Nations Cup ranking only)[1]
Race Season Date Place Type Winner Second Third
285 1 9 December 1978   Schladming GS 092  Ingemar Stenmark Peter Lüscher Leonardo David
286 2 10 December 1978   DH 087  Ken Read Dave Murray Vladimir Makeev
287 3 10 December 1978   KB 010  Peter Lüscher Leonhard Stock Andreas Wenzel
288 4 13 December 1978   Madonna di Campiglio SL 098  Martial Donnet Peter Lüscher Christian Neureuther
Nations Cup 14 December 1978   Madonna di Campiglio PS ncr  Ingemar Stenmark Mauro Bernardi Karl Trojer
289 5 16 December 1978   Val Gardena DH 088  Josef Walcher Peter Müller Walter Vesti
290 6 17 December 1978   DH 089  Erik Håker Peter Müller Ken Read
291 7 21 December 1978   Kranjska Gora SL 099  Ingemar Stenmark Paul Frommelt Leonardo David
292 8 22 December 1978   GS 093  Ingemar Stenmark Peter Lüscher Bojan Križaj
293 9 6 January 1979   Morzine DH 090  Steve Podborski Herbert Plank Uli Spieß
294 10 7 January 1979   Courchevel GS 094  Ingemar Stenmark Peter Lüscher Bojan Križaj
295 11 9 January 1979   Crans-Montana SL 100  Christian Neureuther Petar Popangelov Karl Trojer
296 12 14 January 1979   DH 091  Toni Bürgler Peter Müller Ken Read
297 13 15 January 1979   SL 101  Paul Frommelt Andreas Wenzel Ingemar Stenmark
298 14 15 January 1979   KB 011  Phil Mahre Andreas Wenzel Piero Gros
299 15 16 January 1979   Adelboden GS 095  Ingemar Stenmark Andreas Wenzel Jacques Lüthy
300 16 20 January 1979   Kitzbühel DH 092  Sepp Ferstl Peter Wirnsberger Uli Spieß
301 17 21 January 1979   SL 102  Christian Neureuther Ingemar Stenmark Phil Mahre
302 18 21 January 1979   KB 012  Anton Steiner Andreas Wenzel Peter Lüscher
303 19 23 January 1979   Steinach GS 096  Ingemar Stenmark Peter Lüscher Andreas Wenzel
304 20 27 January 1979   Garmisch DH 093  Peter Wirnsberger Uli Spieß Herbert Plank
305 21 28 January 1979   SL 103  Peter Lüscher Phil Mahre Petar Popangelov
306 22 28 January 1979   KB 013  Peter Lüscher Phil Mahre Andreas Wenzel
307 23 1 February 1979   Villars DH 094  Peter Müller Leonhard Stock Werner Grissmann
308 24 4 February 1979   Jasná GS 097  Ingemar Stenmark Bojan Križaj Heini Hemmi
309 25 5 February 1979   SL 104  Phil Mahre Leonardo David Ingemar Stenmark
310 26 7 February 1979   Oslo SL 105  Leonardo David Ingemar Stenmark Phil Mahre
311 27 10 February 1979   Åre GS 098  Ingemar Stenmark Phil Mahre Jacques Lüthy
312 28 11 February 1979   SL 106  Ingemar Stenmark Phil Mahre Gustav Thöni
313 29 3 March 1979   Lake Placid DH 095  Peter Wirnsberger Peter Müller Dave Murray
314 30 4 March 1979   GS 099  Ingemar Stenmark Hans Enn Peter Lüscher
315 31 12 March 1979   Heavenly Valley GS 100  Ingemar Stenmark Bojan Križaj Hans Enn
316 32 17 March 1979   Furano SL 107  Ingemar Stenmark Christian Neureuther Paul Frommelt
317 33 19 March 1979   GS 101  Ingemar Stenmark Heini Hemmi Jean-Luc Fournier

Women

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, KB – Combined[2]
Race Season Date Place Type Winner Second Third
273 1 9 December 1978   Piancavallo DH Annemarie Moser-Pröll Doris de Agostini Evelyne Dirren
274 2 10 December 1978   SL 099  Abbi Fisher Perrine Pelen Claudia Giordani
Tamara McKinney
275 3 12 December 1978   GS 090  Hanni Wenzel Marie-Theres Nadig Irene Epple
276 4 17 December 1978   Val d'Isère DH 077  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Evi Mittermaier Bernadette Zurbriggen
277 5 18 December 1978   GS 091  Christa Kinshofer Hanni Wenzel Marie-Theres Nadig
278 6 18 December 1978   KB 010  Marie-Theres Nadig Annemarie Moser-Pröll Hanni Wenzel
279 7 7 January 1979   Les Gets GS 092  Christa Kinshofer Hanni Wenzel Regina Sackl
280 8 8 January 1979   SL 100  Regina Sackl Perrine Pelen Annemarie Moser-Pröll
281 9 12 January 1979   Les Diablerets DH 078  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Evi Mittermaier Marie-Theres Nadig
282 10 17 January 1979   Meiringen DH 079  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Irene Epple Bernadette Zurbriggen
283 11 19 January 1979   SL 101  Regina Sackl Claudia Giordani Marie Kurz-Schlechter
284 12 19 January 1979   KB 011  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Fabienne Serrat Hanni Wenzel
285 13 23 January 1979   Schruns SL 102  Lea Solkner Claudia Giordani Annemarie Moser-Pröll
286 14 26 January 1979   DH 080  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Cindy Nelson Irene Epple
287 15 26 January 1979   KB 012  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Cindy Nelson Hanni Wenzel
288 16 27 January 1979   Mellau SL 103  Maria Rosa Quario Annemarie Moser-Pröll Perrine Pelen
289 17 3 February 1979   Pfronten SL 104  Hanni Wenzel Fabienne Serrat Regina Sackl
290 18 4 February 1979   DH 081  Cindy Nelson Caroline Attia Irene Epple
291 19 4 February 1979   KB 013  Hanni Wenzel Irene Epple Cindy Nelson
292 20 6 February 1979   Berchtesgaden GS 093  Christa Kinshofer Irene Epple Annemarie Moser-Pröll
293 21 8 February 1979   Maribor SL 105  Hanni Wenzel Christa Kinshofer Maria Rosa Quario
294 22 2 March 1979   Lake Placid DH 082  Annemarie Moser-Pröll Marie-Theres Nadig Bernadette Zurbriggen
295 23 8 March 1979   Aspen GS 094  Christa Kinshofer Irene Epple Marie-Theres Nadig
296 24 11 March 1979   Heavenly Valley GS 095  Christa Kinshofer Hanni Wenzel Irene Epple
297 25 18 March 1979   Furano SL 106  Perrine Pelen Hanni Wenzel Annemarie Moser-Pröll
298 26 19 March 1979   GS 096  Marie-Theres Nadig Annemarie Moser-Pröll Irene Epple

Men

Overall

see complete table

In men's overall World Cup 1978/79 the best 3 results of each discipline count; best three downhills, best three giant slaloms, best three slaloms and best three combined. 37 racers had a point deduction. Ingemar Stenmark had 260 (!) points deduction and won 13 races.

Place Name Country Total DH GS SL KB
1 Peter Lüscher   Switzerland 186 0 64 57 65
2 Leonhard Stock  Austria 163 57 50 17 39
3 Phil Mahre  United States 155 0 27 72 56
4 Piero Gros  Italy 152 0 58 57 37
5 Ingemar Stenmark  Sweden 150 0 75 75 0
6 Andreas Wenzel  Liechtenstein 148 0 59 34 55
7 Anton Steiner  Austria 107 10 33 36 28
8 Bojan Križaj  Yugoslavia 106 0 66 40 0
9 Gustav Thöni  Italy 92 0 26 54 12
10 Steve Mahre  United States 86 0 25 47 14
11 Leonardo David  Italy 85 0 25 60 0
12 Hans Enn  Austria 81 0 63 18 0
13 Jacques Lüthy   Switzerland 79 0 52 27 0
14 Christian Neureuther  West Germany 74 0 0 74 0
15 Peter Wirnsberger  Austria 72 70 0 2 0
Peter Müller   Switzerland 72 69 2 0 1

Downhill

see complete table

In men's downhill World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Peter Müller won the cup with only one win. There were 8 different winners in 9 races. Leonardo David crashed in the race No. 29. He died after being in a coma for nearly six years.

Place Name Country Total 2AUT 5ITA 6ITA 9FRA 12SUI 16AUT 20GER 23SUI 29USA
1 Peter Müller   Switzerland 109 - 20 20 (2) 20 - (4) 25 24
2 Peter Wirnsberger  Austria 89 8 (2) 11 - - 20 25 - 25
3 Toni Bürgler   Switzerland 80 - 11 - - 25 2 - 22 20
4 Uli Spieß  Austria 75 - - 4 15 - 15 20 (2) 21
Ken Read  Canada 75 25 - 15 - 15 1 - - 19
6 Leonhard Stock  Austria 67 - - - - 6 4 11 24 22
7 Herbert Plank  Italy 65 11 (4) - 20 - 8 15 - 11
8 Werner Grissmann  Austria 63 - - - 6 11 6 (6) 23 17
Sepp Ferstl  West Germany 63 (1) - - 3 - 25 8 14 13
10 Dave Murray  Canada 52 20 - 3 - 2 - - 4 23
Steve Podborski  Canada 52 2 (1) - 25 4 3 - - 18
12 Erik Håker  Norway 41 - - 25 - - - - - 16
13 Josef Walcher  Austria 40 - 25 - - - - - 15 -

Giant slalom

see complete table

In men's giant slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Nine racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points by winning ALL 10 events. He won his fourth Giant slalom World Cup.

Place Name Country Total 1AUT 8YUG 10FRA 15SUI 19AUT 24TCH 27SWE 30USA 31USA 33JPN
1 Ingemar Stenmark  Sweden 125 25 25 25 25 25 (25) (25) (25) (25) (25)
2 Peter Lüscher   Switzerland 104 20 20 20 - (20) - (2) 23 21 (19)
3 Bojan Križaj  Yugoslavia 96 - 15 15 (6) - 20 - 22 24 (15)
4 Heini Hemmi   Switzerland 86 (2) 11 (8) (11) (11) 15 (8) 21 15 24
5 Jacques Lüthy   Switzerland 75 (1) - - 15 (1) 8 15 - 16 21
6 Andreas Wenzel  Liechtenstein 74 - - - 20 15 - - 19 20 -
Piero Gros  Italy 74 8 8 - (4) - (1) - 16 22 20
8 Jean-Luc Fournier   Switzerland 73 11 (2) 11 (8) - - - 18 10 23
9 Hans Enn  Austria 70 - - - - 3 - 4 24 23 16
10 Leonhard Stock  Austria 69 - - (3) - 8 (2) 11 20 13 17

Slalom

see complete table

In men's slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won his fifth Slalom World Cup in a row.

Place Name Country Total 4ITA 7YUG 11SUI 13SUI 17AUT 21GER 25TCH 26NOR 28SWE 32JPN
1 Ingemar Stenmark  Sweden 119 - 25 - (15) 20 (11) (15) 24 25 25
2 Phil Mahre  United States 107 - - (8) (2) 15 20 25 23 24 -
3 Christian Neureuther  West Germany 97 15 - 25 8 25 - - - - 24
4 Petar Popangelov  Bulgaria 96 (11) - 20 - - 15 (3) 19 20 22
5 Paul Frommelt  Liechtenstein 92 - 20 (3) 25 11 - - - 13 23
6 Peter Lüscher   Switzerland 72 20 - - (3) - 25 4 - 11 12
7 Piero Gros  Italy 71 6 (4) (6) - (3) 8 - 21 19 17
8 Leonardo David  Italy 70 4 15 - - 6 - 20 25 - -
9 Gustav Thöni  Italy 64 (3) - (1) - 6 4 - 18 23 13
10 Martial Donnet   Switzerland 63 25 1 11 6 - - - - - 20

Combined

see complete table

There was no special discipline world cup for Combined awarded. The best three results only count for the Overall World Cup. However, Peter Lüscher's strong performance in this discipline was the critical factor in his victory in the Overall.

Place Name Country Total 3AUT 14SUI 18AUT 22GER
1 Andreas Wenzel  Liechtenstein 70 15 20 20 15
2 Peter Lüscher   Switzerland 69 25 4 15 25
3 Phil Mahre  United States 60 11 25 4 20
4 Piero Gros  Italy 41 4 15 11 11
5 Leonhard Stock  Austria 39 20 11 - 8
6 Anton Steiner  Austria 28 - 3 25 -
7 Bohumír Zeman  Czechoslovakia 18 8 - 6 4
8 Steve Mahre  United States 14 - 8 - 6
Herbert Plank  Italy 14 3 - 8 3
10 Gustav Thöni  Italy 12 6 6 - -

Women

Overall

see complete table

In women's overall World Cup 1978/79 the best 3 results of each discipline count; best three downhills, best three giant slaloms, best three slaloms and best three combined. 25 racers had a point deduction. Annemarie Moser-Pröll won her sixth Overall World Cup - this record is still unbeaten.

Place Name Country Total DH GS SL KB
1 Annemarie Moser-Pröll  Austria 243 75 40 58 70
2 Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein 240 40 71 74 55
3 Irene Epple  West Germany 189 66 70 17 36
4 Cindy Nelson  United States 168 67 43 12 46
5 Marie-Theres Nadig   Switzerland 156 63 68 0 25
6 Fabienne Serrat  France 151 6 61 49 35
7 Regina Sackl  Austria 112 0 39 73 0
8 Christa Kinshofer  West Germany 110 0 75 35 0
9 Perrine Pelen  France 100 0 32 65 3
10 Claudia Giordani  Italy 98 3 23 55 17
11 Lea Sölkner  Austria 95 0 29 66 0
12 Regine Mösenlechner  West Germany 85 0 31 46 8
13 Maria Rosa Quario  Italy 84 0 19 65 0
14 Daniela Zini  Italy 82 0 28 54 0
15 Erika Hess   Switzerland 76 0 43 33 0

Downhill

see complete table

In women's downhill World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Annemarie Moser-Pröll won 6 races out of 7 and five races in a row. She won the World Cup with maximum points. Together with the last two downhill races last season 1977/78, she won 7 downhill races in a row. She won her seventh Downhill World Cup - this record is still unbeaten.

Place Name Country Total 1ITA 4FRA 9SUI 10SUI 14AUT 18GER 22USA
1 Annemarie Moser-Pröll  Austria 125 25 25 25 25 25 - (25)
2 Bernadette Zurbriggen   Switzerland 90 - 15 - 15 19 18 23
3 Marie-Theres Nadig   Switzerland 89 (8) 11 15 (6) 22 17 24
4 Cindy Nelson  United States 82 (1) - 11 4 24 25 18
5 Irene Epple  West Germany 81 (4) (1) 8 20 23 23 7
6 Evi Mittermaier  West Germany 67 - 20 20 - 18 9 -
7 Edith Peter  Austria 64 8 6 (6) 8 21 - 21
8 Caroline Attia  France 55 2 3 - 11 - 24 15
9 Annemarie Bischofsberger  West Germany 49 - - - - 9 20 20
10 Cornelia Pröll  Austria 41 - - - - - 19 22
Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein 41 - - - 1 13 15 12
Brigitte Totschnig  Austria 41 - - - - 20 12 9

Giant slalom

see complete table

In women's giant slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Four racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Christa Kinshofer won five races in a row. She won the World Cup with maximum points.

Place Name Country Total 3ITA 5FRA 7FRA 20GER 23USA 24USA 26JPN
1 Christa Kinshofer  West Germany 125 - 25 25 25 25 25 (14)
2 Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein 112 25 20 (20) (6) 22 24 21
3 Irene Epple  West Germany 105 15 - (1) 20 24 23 23
4 Marie-Theres Nadig   Switzerland 94 20 15 11 (4) 23 - 25
5 Fabienne Serrat  France 65 - - 4 - 21 21 19
6 Heidi Preuss  United States 58 - - - - 19 17 22
7 Cindy Nelson  United States 46 - 3 - - 13 10 20
Viki Fleckenstein  United States 46 - - - - 14 14 18
9 Regina Sackl  Austria 45 - 6 15 11 - 13 -
10 Erika Hess   Switzerland 43 - - - - 20 22 1

Slalom

see complete table

In women's slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets.

Place Name Country Total 2ITA 8FRA 11SUI 13AUT 16AUT 17GER 21YUG 25JPN
1 Regina Sackl  Austria 105 (1) 25 25 - (8) 23 22 10
2 Annemarie Moser-Pröll  Austria 87 (4) 15 - 15 20 14 - 23
3 Lea Sölkner  Austria 84 - 2 - 25 - 22 19 16
4 Perrine Pelen  France 82 20 20 2 - 15 - - 25
5 Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein 81 - (1) - 4 3 25 25 24
Claudia Giordani  Italy 81 15 (8) 20 20 (4) 13 - 13
7 Maria Rosa Quario  Italy 69 - 4 - - 25 17 23 -
8 Fabienne Serrat  France 63 (2) 11 3 - 11 24 - 14
9 Daniela Zini  Italy 61 - 6 - 11 1 21 - 22
10 Christa Zechmeister  West Germany 51 6 - (1) 6 - 8 11 20
11 Regine Mösenlechner  West Germany 50 - - 4 8 - - 21 17
12 Pamela Behr  West Germany 46 - - - 4 - 21 - 21
13 Abbi Fisher  United States 40 25 - - - - 25 - -

Combined

see complete table

There was no special discipline world cup for Combined awarded. The best three results only count for the Overall World Cup.

Place Name Country Total 6FRA 12SUI 15AUT 19GER
1 Annemarie Moser-Pröll  Austria 70 20 25 25 -
Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein 70 15 15 15 25
3 Cindy Nelson  United States 57 11 11 20 15
4 Irene Epple  West Germany 36 - 8 8 20
5 Fabienne Serrat  France 35 4 20 - 11
6 Marie-Theres Nadig   Switzerland 25 25 - - -
7 Claudia Giordani  Italy 17 - 6 11 -
8 Andrea Haaser  Austria 10 6 4 - -
9 Regine Mösenlechner  West Germany 8 8 - - -
Abbi Fisher  United States 8 - - - 8

Nations Cup

Overall

Place Country Total Men Women
1  Austria 2095 1041 1054
2   Switzerland 1515 944 571
3  Italy 1119 711 408
4  United States 1009 369 640
5  West Germany 996 199 797
6  Liechtenstein 677 284 393
7  France 568 110 458
8  Sweden 505 505 0
9  Yugoslavia 297 285 12
10  Czechoslovakia 242 72 170
11  Canada 209 195 14
12  Bulgaria 115 115 0
13  Soviet Union 83 55 28
14  Norway 65 65 0
15  Japan 28 28 0
16  Belgium 3 0 3
 Spain 3 3 0
18  Poland 1 1 0

Men

Place Country Total DH GS SL KB Racers Wins
1  Austria 1041 435 277 262 67 18 4
2   Switzerland 944 320 375 179 70 15 6
3  Italy 711 162 187 295 67 16 1
4  Sweden 505 0 296 209 0 5 13
5  United States 369 33 82 178 76 11 2
6  Yugoslavia 285 0 206 79 0 4 0
7  Liechtenstein 284 0 81 133 70 3 1
8  West Germany 199 82 8 105 4 5 3
9  Canada 195 190 3 0 2 5 2
10  Bulgaria 115 0 5 110 0 1 0
11  France 110 18 83 9 0 4 0
12  Czechoslovakia 72 0 29 25 18 1 0
13  Norway 65 41 0 24 0 4 1
14  Soviet Union 55 36 8 9 2 5 0
15  Japan 28 0 3 25 0 5 0
16  Spain 3 0 0 0 3 1 0
17  Poland 1 0 0 0 1 1 0

Women

Place Country Total DH GS SL KB Racers Wins
1  Austria 1054 394 178 401 81 16 11
2  West Germany 797 240 306 202 49 10 5
3  United States 640 168 257 143 72 12 2
4   Switzerland 571 309 169 61 32 10 2
5  France 458 127 111 173 47 13 1
6  Italy 408 14 83 294 17 7 1
7  Liechtenstein 393 49 173 96 75 3 4
8  Czechoslovakia 170 38 76 50 6 4 0
9  Soviet Union 28 0 3 24 1 2 0
10  Canada 14 14 0 0 0 2 0
11  Yugoslavia 12 0 0 12 0 3 0
12  Belgium 3 3 0 0 0 1 0

References

  1. ^ "FIS: Alpine World Cup 1979 men's schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. ^ "FIS: Alpine World Cup 1979 women's schedule". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
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