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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013

42nd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
Host city Schladming, Styria, Austria
Nations participating 72
Athletes participating 614
Events 11
Opening ceremony 4 February 2013
Closing ceremony 17 February 2013
Main venue Planai
Website schladming2013.at
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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013
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Super combined men women
Downhill men women
Giant slalom men women
Slalom men women
Super-G men women
Team mixed

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 were the 42nd FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, held 4–17 February in Austria at Planai in Schladming, Styria. A record number of athletes and countries took part in this championships. Schladming previously hosted the 1982 World Championships, and prior to acquiring the 2013 event, it made two unsuccessful bids to host.

The FIS awarded the 2013 championships to Schladming on 29 May 2008, in Cape Town, South Africa. The other three finalists were Beaver Creek in Vail, United States, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and St. Moritz, Switzerland. Beaver Creek/Vail hosted in 2015 and St. Moritz gained the championships for 2017.

614 athletes from 72 countries competed. Malta made its debut appearance.

On 5 February 2013, during the super-G, American Lindsey Vonn was involved in a severe crash and was airlifted to a nearby hospital. Vonn tore her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her right knee and fractured her right tibia.

Coordinates: 47°23′31″N 13°41′38″E / 47.392°N 13.694°E / 47.392; 13.694


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