FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 – Nations team event

Nations team event at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011
Venue	Garmisch Classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen, germany
Date	16 February 2011
Teams	11
Medalists
Taïna Barioz Anémone Marmottan Tessa Worley Thomas Fanara Cyprien Richard Gauthier de Tessières    France   Anna Fenninger Michaela Kirchgasser Marlies Schild Romed Baumann Benjamin Raich Philipp Schörghofer    Austria   Sara Hector Anja Pärson Maria Pietilä-Holmner Axel Bäck Hans Olsson Matts Olsson    Sweden
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Alpine skiing at the World Ski Championships 2011
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Team	mixed
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The Nations Team Event competition at the 2011 World Championships ran on February 16 at 11:00 local time, the seventh race of the championships. Athletes from the best 16 nations in the FIS Overall Nations Cup ranking competed.

Rules

The 16 best nations in the FIS Overall Nations Cup Ranking were eligible to participate in this event. If one or more nations didn't start, they were not replaced. Each team consisted of 4 to 6 skiers, but at least two female and two male skiers.

The format was a K.O. round competition with the pairings being made according to the Nations Cup Ranking. In each pairing 2 female & 2 male skiers from each team raced a parallel giant slalom in a best-of-4 system. In the event of a tie, the faster cumulated time of the best male and the best female skier decides which team will advance to the next round.

FIS Overall Nations Cup standing (prior to the World Championships)

Rank	Country	Points
1	Austria	7662
2	Switzerland	4573
3	France	3734
4	Italy	3728
5	United States	3230
6	Germany	3097
7	Sweden	2487
8	Croatia	1424
9	Norway	1346
10	Canada	1280
11	Slovenia	976
12	Finland	804
13	Czech Republic	433
14	Slovakia	257
15	Japan	66
16	Liechtenstein	55
17	Spain	51
18	Moldova	40
19	Great Britain	9
20	Russia	8
21	Poland	4

Participating teams

Results bracket

	1/8 Final					1/4 Final					1/2 Final					Finals
						1	Austria (f)	2
						8	Croatia	2
	8	Croatia	3
	9	Canada	2
											1	Austria	4
											4	Italy	0
						5	United States	1
						4	Italy	3
																1	Austria	2
																3	France (f)	2
						3	France (f)	2
						6	Germany	2
	6	Germany	4
	11	Slovakia	0
											3	France (f)	2
											7	Sweden	2
	7	Sweden	3													Third place
	10	Czech Republic	1
						7	Sweden	4								4	Italy	0
						2	Switzerland	0								7	Sweden	4

• (f) = In the event of a tie, the faster cumulated time of the best male and the best female skier decides which team will advance to the next round

Results

As Norway, Slovenia, Finland, Japan, and Liechtenstein chose not to participate, the 5 highest-placed teams (Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, United States) in the FIS Overall Nations Cup Ranking received a bye in the qualification round.

1/8 Final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Croatia	3–2	Canada
Palić 27.04		B. Janyk 27.04
Široki 26.25		M. Janyk 26.18
Novoselić 26.73		Gagnon 26.78
Zrnčić-Dim 30.31		Stutz 33.77
Germany	4–0	Slovakia
Dürr 27.23		Gantnerová 27.37
Dopfer 25.78		Babušiak 27.01
Hronek 27.08		Saalová 27.67
Neureuther 25.89		Zampa 29.01
Sweden	3–1	Czech Republic
Pärson 26.88		Paulathová 26.98
M. Olsson 26.59		Kryzl 25.44
Pietilä-Holmner 26.46		Zemanová 27.93
H. Olsson 25.80		Zika 25.86

1/4 Final

Semifinals

Finals

In the end France won the title with three 2-2 results, always with the faster total time of the best male and the best female racer.

And the final victory was decided by 1/100 of a second: if Kirchgasser had raced 0,01 sec faster (or Marmottan 0,01 sec slower) the result would have been 3:2 for Austria.

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