North Americans qualified to compete at the World Cup finals

March 15th the women’s and men’s downhills will be the first races of the Soldeu, Andorra 2023 Alpine World Cup finals. The last events will be the women’s GS and Men’s slalom on Sunday, March 19th. Only the best 25 from the season discipline standings are invited to compete in their event. Also, anyone with 500 points can compete in any of the individual races they desire.

The Stifel US Alpine Team has qualified five women and five men. Alpine Canada Alpin has five men and four women. Notably, the Canadian women did not qualify any athletes for downhill or super-G. The North American men did not qualify any athletes in slalom, but the women qualified five. The strongest North American event is downhill, five men and three women will race, and six of those are Stifel US Alpine Team members.

Five North Americans achieved 2022-23 World Cup podiums. Mikaela Shiffrin, Paula Moltzan and Travis Ganong did as members of the Stifel US Alpine Team, also James Crawford and Valerie Grenier for the Alpine Canada Alpin. Only Shiffrin, with 16 and Crawford, with three, earned more than one. Notably, Shiffrin, Crawford, Cameron Alexander and Laurence ST-Germain earned individual 2023 World Championship podiums. River Radamus, Moltzan, Tommy Ford, Grenier, Jeffery Read, and Erik Read also won World Championship medals in Mixed Team Parallel.

Notably, only the top 15 score World Cup points at the finals due to the limited field size.

North Americans invited to ski downhill at the Soldeu Andorra World Cup finals on March 15th

North Americans invited to ski super-G at the Soldeu Andorra World Cup finals on March 16th

North Americans invited to ski giant slalom at the Soldeu Andorra World Cup finals men March 18th and women March 19th

North American women invited to ski slalom at the Soldeu Andorra World Cup finals March 18th