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 giant slalom 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 Lindsey Vonn 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 • Sofia Goggia 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 Denise Karbon. Only Deborah Compagnoni (16), Isolde Kostner (15), Federica Brignone (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. Information provided by • 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. • Corinne Suter 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. International Ski Federation www.fis-ski.com Gracenote Sports on Twitter @GracenoteGold Information provided by .