PREVIEW Ladies’ DOWNHILL – Wednesday 13 Mar 2019

Downhill crystal globe • The ladies' downhill crystal globe will either be won by Nicole Schmidhofer (444 points) or Ramona Siebenhofer (354). • Austria will win the ladies' downhill crystal globe fo a record-extending 19th time. The last Austrian woman to win the downhill globe was Renate Götschl in 2007. • Schmidhofer or Siebenhofer will become the first Austrian woman to win any World Cup standings since Eva-Maria Brem won the crystal globe in 2016. • Siebenhofer must win and hope Schmidhofer finishes outside the top-15 in this race to win the crystal globe. • Coming into the races in Soldeu, Schmidhofer is also in contention for the super-G crystal globe. Five women have won the downhill and super-G standings in the same year of which was the last to do so in 2015.

Austria • Austrian women have won five of the seven ladies' downhill events this World Cup season: Nicole Schmidhofer (2), Ramona Siebenhofer (2) and Stephanie Venier (1). • This century, only one country has won at least six ladies' World Cup downhill races in a single season: United States in 2009/10 (6, all by Lindsey Vonn). • Austrian women could claim six downhill victories in a World Cup season for the first time since 1998/99 (6). • Siebenhofer and Schmidhofer could both become the first Austrian woman to win three World Cup downhill events in one season since Renate Götschl in 2006/07 (4 wins).

Other contenders • has claimed three victories and four second places in her last eight World Cup downhill participations. She won the most recent World Cup downhill race, in Crans-Montana. • Goggia could win successive downhill races in the World Cup for the second time, after January 2018 when she won in Bad Kleinkirchheim and Cortina d'Ampezzo. • Goggia has won six World Cup races in all disciplines, as many as . Only (16), (15), (10) and Karen Putzer (8) have won more among Italian women. • Kira Weidle has finished on the podium of a ladies' World Cup downhill race twice this season, third in Lake Louise and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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• The last German woman to win a downhill race in the World Cup was Maria Höfl-Riesch in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 24 January 2014. • collected a silver (downhill) and bronze (super-G) medal at this year's world championships in Åre. • Suter finished third in the downhill race in Crans-Montana this season, her first World Cup podium. • The last Swiss woman to win a downhill race in the World Cup was Lara Gut-Behrami in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 28 January 2017.

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