PREVIEW WOMEN'S ALPINE COMBINED VAL D'ISÈRE – Sunday 22 Dec 2019

Federica Brignone • topped the Alpine combined standings last season. The last woman to finish first in the Alpine combine standings in successive seasons was from 2010 to 2012. • Brignone won three of the last five Alpine combined events in the World Cup, including each of the last two. • Brignone can become the first woman to win three successive World Cup races in a combination event since Janica Kostelic won four in a row between 2002 and 2006. • Brignone has only won more World Cup events in the (6) than in the Alpine combined (3). She also won two super-G races.

Wendy Holdener • finished first in the Alpine combined standings in 2016 and 2018. • Holdener could become the sixth skier to top the women's combination/Alpine combined standings at least three times, and the second from Switzerland after (4). • Two of Holdener's three World Cup race wins came in the Alpine combined, in Lenzerheide in 2016 and 2018. • Holdener won the Alpine combined world title in 2017 and 2019, while collecting Olympic bronze in this event in 2018.

Other contenders • Ilka Štuhec won the last World Cup Alpine combined race held in Val d'Isère, on 16 December 2016. Lara Gut-Behrami won the Alpine combined event in Val d'Isère in 2015. • Only Marie-Theres Nadig (3) and Lindsey Vonn (2) have won multiple women's combination races in Val d'Isère in the World Cup. • Štuhec finished on the podium in each of the last three World Cup Alpine combined events she participated in, first in Val d'Isère (2016) and second and third in Crans-Montana (2017). • won one World Cup Alpine combined event, in Crans- Montana on 26 February 2017. • Petra Vlhová competed in three Alpine combined races at world level. She finished fifth at the Olympic Games in 2018, third in the Crans-Montana World Cup in 2018, and second at the world championships in 2019. • Roni Remme finished second in the Crans-Montana Alpine combined last season, her first and to date only World Cup podium.

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• Remme can become the third Canadian woman to win a World Cup race in a combination event, after Marie-Michèle Gagnon (2) and Gery Sörensen (1).

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