Stockholm, Sweden – Spirits are high and the athletes are feeling the energy of a special place called Hammarbybacken, home to this year’s only City Event on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup schedule.
It’s not often athletes escape to the city life for an event like this, and Stockholm seems the perfect home for it. Tickets are sold out and the crowd will be rowdy Tuesday night for the event, in which Colorado’s Mikaela Shiffrin is a clear favorite. Shiffrin has never won a City Event, but did podium with a third-place finish in Moscow in 2013. Resi Stiegler, of Jackson Hole, Wyo, will also compete in Tuesday’s event. No American men qualified for the event.
![The riders will battle head-to-head in the Stockholm City Event Tuesday night. (photo: Getty Images/Agence Zoom-Alexis Boichard via USSA)](http://www.firsttracksonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/stockholm-city-event-300x200.jpg)
Coming into Stockholm with the lead in the overall ahead of Swiss racer Lara Gut, Shiffrin will seek to snag some valuable World Cup points that will count both towards the slalom title and the overall title. Currently Shiffrin leads the slalom standings by 125 points over Slovenia’s Veronika Velez-Zuzulova.
It’ll be a race to the finish – quite literally – at Hammarbybacken, as Zuzulova will be tough to beat, and last year’s victor Swiss Wendy Holdener and hometown gal Frida Hansdotter will be gunning, too.
CONFIRMED STARTERS IN STOCKHOLM
Women
Order | Bib | Name | NATION |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | SHIFFRIN Mikaela | USA |
2 | 2 | VELEZ ZUZULOVA Veronika | SLO |
3 | 3 | HOLDENER Wendy | SUI |
4 | 4 | HANSDOTTER Frida | SWE |
5 | 5 | STRACHOVA Sarka | CZE |
6 | 6 | LOESETH Nina | NOR |
7 | 7 | VLHOVA Petra | SLO |
8 | 8 | SCHILD Bernadette | AUT |
9 | 9 | GAGNON Marie-Michele | CAN |
10 | 10 | STIEGLER Resi | USA |
11 | 11 | TRUPPE Katharina | AUT |
12 | 12 | COSTAZZA Chiara | ITA |
13 | 13 | BUCIK Ana | SLO |
14 | 14 | MEILLARD Melanie | SUI |
15 | 15 | FEIERABEND Denise | SUI |
16 | 16 | BAUD MUGNIER Adeline | FRA |
Men
Order | Bib | Name | NATION |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | HIRSCHER Marcel | AUT |
2 | 2 | KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik | NOR |
3 | 3 | MOELGG Manfred | ITA |
4 | 4 | KHOROSHILOV Alexander | RUS |
5 | 5 | RYDING Dave | GBR |
6 | 6 | YULE Daniel | SUI |
7 | 7 | GROSS Stefano | ITA |
8 | 8 | MATT Michael | AUT |
9 | 9 | PINTURAULT Alexis | FRA |
10 | 10 | LIZEROUX Julien | FRA |
11 | 11 | HARGIN Mattias | SWE |
12 | 12 | NORDBOTTEN Jonathan | NOR |
13 | 13 | FOSS-SOLEVAAG Sebastian | NOR |
14 | 14 | RAZZOLI Giuliano | ITA |
15 | 15 | STRASSER Linus | GER |
16 | 16 | KILDE Aleksander Aamodt | NOR |