Alpine Skiing 2022/Women's alpine combined

Women's alpine combined
General information
Sport	Alpine Skiing 2022
Date	17 February 2022
Competitors	26 athletes
Venue	Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Michelle Gisin
Silver	Mikaela Shiffrin
Bronze	Wendy Holdener
Conditions
Temperature	-14°C / 6.8°F
Medalists
	Michelle Gisin
	Wendy Holdener
	Federica Brignone

The women's alpine combined of Alpine Skiing 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February 2022 in the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre. With 26 athletes competing, the event was won by Michelle Gisin from Switzerland, with Wendy Holdener from Switzerland taking the silver medal and Federica Brignone from Italy taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of two races. First, a speed discipline is conducted with a downhill course. After the downhill event, a slalom event is scheduled. The competitor with the fastest combined time without missing any of the gates is the winner.

Preview

Twenty-six athletes qualified for the event with Federica Brignone as the leader of the world rankings, Michelle Gisin as defending Olympic champion, and Mikaela Shiffrin as reigning world champion, though there were quite a few others who would contend for the medals. Marta Bassino and defending bronze medalist Wendy Holdener were in the top 10 of the World Cup rankings, while Ramona Siebenhofer, Elena Curtoni, and Christine Scheyer were some of the outsiders for the medals.

Cande Moreno was the youngest athlete to compete and the only athlete born after 1 January 2000, just over a year younger than 2018 Olympian Elvedina Muzaferija and Keely Cashman. Marusa Ferk Saioni was the veteran of the field, competing at the age of 33 at her fourth edition of the Olympic Games, with Federica Brignone and Nevena Ignjatovic reaching the same milestone at the age of 31. Greta Small, Michelle Gisin, Wendy Holdener, and Mikaela Shiffrin made their third appearance at the Olympic Games, with nine athletes making their debuts. The 2018 medalists Michelle Gisin, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Wendy Holdener all competed to defend or even improve on their 2018 results.

Summary

Downhill

Downhill Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Christine Scheyer	1:32.42
2		Ester Ledecka	1:32.43
3		Ramona Siebenhofer	1:32.56
4		Romane Miradoli	1:32.95
5		Mikaela Siffrin	1:32.98
6		Marusa Ferk Saioni	1:33.07
7		Keely Cashman	1:33.09
8		Federica Brignone	1:33.11
9		Nicol Delago	1:33.12
10		Priska Nufer	1:33.15
11		Wendy Holdener	1:33.41
12		Michelle Gisin	1:33.42
13		Marta Bassino	1:33.45
14		Julia Pleshkova	1:33.54
15		Isabella Wright	1:33.72
16		Cande Moreno	1:34.05
17		Laura Gauche	1:34.08
18		Greta Small	1:34.38
19		Katharina Huber	1:35.68
20		Tricia Mangan	1:35.89
20		Elvedina Muzaferija	1:35.89
22		Nevena Ignjatovic	1:37.02
23		Tereza Nova	1:37.07
24		Kong Fanying	1:41.95
-		Elena Curtoni	DNF
-		Roni Remme	DNF

Slalom

Slalom Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Time
1		Michelle Gisin	52.25
2		Katharina Huber	53.12
3		Wendy Holdener	53.31
4		Federica Brignone	53.41
5		Ester Ledecka	55.89
6		Laura Gauche	55.96
7		Christine Scheyer	56.83
8		Tricia Mangan	57.05
8		Marusa Ferk Saioni	57.05
10		Ramona Siebenhofer	57.13
11		Julia Pleshkova	57.16
12		Tereza Nova	58.39
13		Greta Small	1:00.17
14		Cande Moreno	1:00.29
15		Kong Fanying	1:05.73
-		Isabella Wright	DNF
-		Nicol Delago	DNF
-		Keely Cashman	DNF
-		Mikaela Shiffrin	DNF
-		Romane Miradoli	DNF
-		Marta Bassino	DNF
-		Priska Nufer	DNF
-		Elvedina Muzaferija	DNF
-		Nevena Ignjatovic	DQ
-		Elena Curtoni	DNS
-		Roni Remme	DNS

Results

Michelle Gisin successfully defended her Olympic title in the alpine combined, and became the third consecutive Olympic champion to do so, after Janica Kostelic in 2002 and 2006, and Maria Hoefl-Riesch in 2010 and 2014. Wendy Holdener won her fifth Olympic medal in three editions of the Olympic Games, and improved on her alpine combined result of 2018 when she won bronze. Federica Brignone won bronze in the alpine combined, after winning bronze in giant slalom in 2018 and silver in the giant slalom in 2022, having made Olympic appearances since 2010. Ester Ledecka just missed out on the unique achievement to win Olympic medals in different sports in the same year for the second time in a row, after she won gold medals in alpine skiing and snowboarding in 2018, and a gold medal in snowboarding only a week prior. Katharina Huber was the best debutante finishing in the top 5 at her first Olympic Games, followed by her team mates Christine Scheyer and Ramona Siebenhofer to complete the top 7.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Michelle Gisin	Switzerland	2:25.67
	Wendy Holdener	Switzerland	2:26.72
	Federica Brignone	Italy	2:27.52
4	Ester Ledecka	Czech Republic	2:28.32
5	Katharina Huber	Austria	2:28.80
6	Christine Scheyer	Austria	2:29.25
7	Ramona Siebenhofer	Austria	2:29.69
8	Laura Gauche	France	2:30.04
9	Marusa Ferk Saioni	Slovenia	2:30.12
10	Julia Pleshkova	ROC	2:30.70
11	Tricia Mangan	United States	2:32.94
12	Cande Moreno	Andorra	2:34.34
13	Greta Small	Australia	2:34.55
14	Tereza Nova	Czech Republic	2:35.46
15	Kong Fanying	China	2:47.68
-	Isabella Wright	United States	DNF
-	Nicol Delago	Italy	DNF
-	Keely Cashman	United States	DNF
-	Mikaela Shiffrin	United States	DNF
-	Romane Miradoli	France	DNF
-	Marta Bassino	Italy	DNF
-	Priska Nufer	Switzerland	DNF
-	Elvedine Muzaferija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	DNF
-	Nevena Ignjatovic	Serbia	DQ
-	Elena Curtoni	Italy	DNF
-	Roni Remme	Canada	DNF