Bochet and Daldoss win overall alpine World Cup

Multiple World Cup podiums for Marie Bochet and Alessandro Daldoss lead to overall points victories across all classifications, whilst many other skiers claim overall individual titles. 02 Mar 2014

Alessandro Daldoss and guide Luca Negrini stormed to the overall men's IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup, as well as the overall men's visually impaired points trophy.

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By IPC

In the Nation’s Cup, which combines the points from all classifications, Russia finished in the top three for both men and women. In the men’s their score totalled 4,560 points to claim top spot ahead of the USA with 3,836 and Austria’s 3,561.

France’s six-time world champion Marie Bochet and Italian Alessandro Daldoss claimed the overall women’s and men’s IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup points crowns for the 2013-14 season, with Russia and the USA named victors in the nations globe, at the World Cup Finals in Tarvisio, Italy, this week (24-27 February).

Standing skier Bochet, who will compete in her second Paralympic Games at Sochi 2014, racked up 1,460 World Cup points, claiming 14 victories out of the 17 races she entered. Her lowest finish of the year was second and the 20-year-old also finished the season as the overall points champion in her classification.

Bochet finished ahead of two Germans for the overall points crown - overall women’s sit-ski winner Anna Schaffelhuber (1,400 points) and class rival Andrea Rothfuss (1,220 points).

In the individual rankings Bochet also claimed the overall World Cup title in the slalom and giant slalom in the standing class. The other three titles – downhill, super-combined and super-G – were won by Russia’s Inga Medevedeva.

Reigning slalom world champion Schaffelhuber won three of five overall titles on offer in women’s sit-ski, claiming victory in the slalom, giant slalom and super-G. The downhill and super-combined titles were won by Laurie Stephens of the USA.

Stephens’ teammate Danelle Umstead and husband guide Rob did even better, securing the downhill and slalom World Cup titles in the women’s visually impaired class, as well as the trophy for their classification. Australian Melissa Perrine and guide Andrew Bor won the giant slalom and super-G overall and Russia’s triple world champion Aleksandra Frantceva picked up the super-combined.

In addition to claiming the men’s overall and visually impaired titles, Italy’s Alessandro Daldoss and guide Luca Negrini also claimed the downhill and giant slalom World Cup titles in the men’s visually impaired class.

Russia’s Valerii Redkozubov with guide Evgeny Geroev were consistent enough to become points champions in the slalom and super combined whilst rising stars the Marcoux brothers, Mac guided by BJ, collected the super-G.

The men’s giant slalom and downhill saw world champion Markus Salcher of Austria claim the overall victories in the standing classification, whilst there were also doubles for New Zealand’s Adam Hall in the super-G and slalom, rounded off by Russian Alexey Bugaev taking the super-combined to add to his overall points trophy for male standing skiers.

American athletes collected the majority of the titles in the men’s sit-ski, with Tyler Walker in the super-G and slalom and Christopher Devlin-Young in the downhill. Walker also collected the crown for his classification. Swiss-born Christoph Kunz picked up the giant slalom, whilst Austrian Roman Rabl won the super-combined.

In the Nation’s Cup, which combines the points from all classifications, Russia finished in the top three for both men and women. In the men’s their score totalled 4,560 points to claim top spot ahead of the USA with 3,836 and Austria’s 3,561.

In the women’s, the USA finished top with 5,343 points, Germany second with 3,072 and Russia with 2,939.

Complete overall rankings for all classifications and disciplines can be found at IPC Alpine Skiing's rankings page.

All athletes and teams are now beginning to arrive at Sochi 2014, where competitions start in alpine skiing on 8 March. Over 300 hours of HD livestreaming will be shown at www.ParalympicSport.TV across five sports and 72 medal events.