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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015

43rd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

Host city	Vail / Beaver Creek, Colorado, U.S.
Nations	68
Athletes	~700
Events	11
Opening	February 2, 2015
Closing	February 15, 2015
Opened by	Barack Obama
Main venue	Beaver Creek
Website	vailbeavercreek2015.com
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Alpine skiing at the World Ski Championships 2015
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Team	mixed
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The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 were the 43rd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, held from 2–15 February in the United StatesatVail / Beaver Creek, Colorado.^[1]

Athletes from over 70 nations were expected, with a worldwide television audience of an estimated 1 billion and an onsite media and broadcast entourage of approximately 1,500. Competition began on Tuesday, February 3 and concluded on Sunday, February 15, covering 13 days and two weekends. There were five men’s and five women’s individual races, along with the nation’s team event, featuring a parallel giant slalom format. The team event was run at Vail and the other ten competitions at Beaver Creek, on or near the Birds of Prey course.

These were the third world championships for Vail / Beaver Creek, which previously hosted in 1989 and 1999. All the events in 1989 were held at Vail ^{[dubious – discuss]}, and 1999 had events at both resorts, seven at Vail and three at Beaver Creek. Also in Colorado, Aspen hosted in 1950, which were the first championships held outside Europe, the first to include the giant slalom event, and the first alpine world ski championships outside the Olympics since 1939.

All three finalists for 2015 had attempted to host the 2013 championships, which were awarded in 2008 to Austria.^[2]

City	Country	Votes	Previous championships hosted
Vail / Beaver Creek, Colorado	United States	8	1999, 1989 (Vail only), orig. 1976 Winter Olympics (withdrawn 1972)
Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	4	1956 Winter Olympics, 1941 (later withdrawn), 1932
St. Moritz	Switzerland	3	2003, 1974, 1948 Winter Olympics, 1934

The winner was selected at the FIS Congress in Antalya, Turkey, on June 3, 2010.
Vail/Beaver Creek won in the first round with 8 votes to Cortina's 4 and St. Moritz's 3.

A new women's downhill course was built adjacent to the men's Birds of Prey course at Beaver Creek.^[3]

All times are local (UTC−7).^[4]

• The women's Super-G was delayed 30 minutes due to strong winds. The start was lowered 74 m (243 ft), shortening the course by 200 m (220 yd).
• The men's Super-G was postponed a day due to adverse weather conditions.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[5] details	Patrick Küng  Switzerland	1:43.18	Travis Ganong  United States	1:43.42	Beat Feuz  Switzerland	1:43.49
Super-G[6] details	Hannes Reichelt  Austria	1:15.68	Dustin Cook  Canada	1:15.79	Adrien Théaux  France	1:15.92
Giant Slalom[7] details	Ted Ligety  United States	2:34.16	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	2:34.61	Alexis Pinturault  France	2:35.04
Slalom[8] details	Jean-Baptiste Grange  France	1:57.47	Fritz Dopfer  Germany	1:57.82	Felix Neureuther  Germany	1:58.02
Super Combined[9] details	Marcel Hirscher  Austria	2:36.10	Kjetil Jansrud  Norway	2:36.29	Ted Ligety  United States	2:36.40

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill[10] details	Tina Maze  Slovenia	1:45.89	Anna Fenninger  Austria	1:45.91	Lara Gut  Switzerland	1:46.23
Super-G[11] details	Anna Fenninger  Austria	1:10.29	Tina Maze  Slovenia	1:10.32	Lindsey Vonn  United States	1:10.44
Giant Slalom[12] details	Anna Fenninger  Austria	2:19.16	Viktoria Rebensburg  Germany	2:20.56	Jessica Lindell-Vikarby  Sweden	2:20.65
Slalom[13] details	Mikaela Shiffrin  United States	1:38.48	Frida Hansdotter  Sweden	1:38.82	Šárka Strachová  Czech Republic	1:39.25
Super Combined[14] details	Tina Maze  Slovenia	2:33.37	Nicole Hosp  Austria	2:33.59	Michaela Kirchgasser  Austria	2:33.72

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Team event[15] details	Austria Eva-Maria Brem Michaela Kirchgasser Nicole Hosp Marcel Hirscher Christoph Nösig Philipp Schörghofer		Canada Candace Crawford Erin Mielzynski Marie-Pier Préfontaine Phil Brown Trevor Philp Erik Read		Sweden Maria Pietilä Holmner Anna Swenn-Larsson Sara Hector Mattias Hargin André Myhrer Markus Larsson

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria (AUT)	5	3	1	9
2	United States (USA)*	2	1	2	5
3	Slovenia (SLO)	2	1	0	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	2	3
6	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
7	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
8	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	2	3
9	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
10	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		11	11	11	33

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