World Ski Championships Betting 2017 Winner Odds & Predictions

Lindsey Vonn set to battle Gut again for gold

Lindsey Vonn - © PHOTOMDP / Shutterstock.com
Lindsey Vonn - © PHOTOMDP / Shutterstock.com

It is a big time in the world of winter sports as the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017. This is the 44th edition of the famous bi-annual championships and they are being hosted in St Moritz, Switzerland and will run through to the closing ceremony which is on February 19th. So over the 11 events that are on show, 74 nations will be taking part including Great Britain.

Obviously it is not the biggest sporting championships in the world from the perspective of a British point of view, but the British Alpine Ski Team are out in Switzerland and main man Dave Ryding will be looking to make a splash in the Men’s Slalom. You will have to wait for the duration of the championships for that one, because it is being ran on the 19th, the final day.

Ryding has managed to get on a World Cup podium in what has been a tremendous, ground-breaking season for him, his first ever on tour. Other main names of note going in the World Ski Championships Betting 2017 are Laurie Taylor in the Slalom and Carlie Raposo in the Giant Slalom. Alex Tilley will being running in the Giant Slalom and the Slalom and will be looking to shake off some frustrating results on the World Cup season. While Cara Brown and Charlie Guest will get a run in the Giant Slalom and Slalom respectively.

These are the events that you will be able to see, with a men’s and a women’s competition in each

Alpine Combined
Downhill
Giant Slalom
Slalom
Super-G
Team (mixed)

This is the fifth time that the Alpine World Ski Championships have been held at St Moritz, the most recent hosting of it coming back in 2003. St Moritz has famously hosted the Winter Olympics twice as well.

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World Ski Championships Betting 2017 Women’s Super G Odds

Lara Gut 7/4, Lindsey Vonn 6/1, Sofia Goggia 9/1, Viktoria Rebensburg 12/1, Fabienne Suter 15/1, Anna Veith 16/1,Tina Weirather 18/1, Nicole Schmidhofer 20/1, 22/1 bar

World Ski Championships Betting 2017 Women’s Downhill Odds

Lara Gut 2/1, Lindsey Vonn 10/3, Ilka Stuhec 13/2, Sofia GOggia 8/1, Viktoria Rebensburg 12/1, Fabienne Suter 14/1, Anna Veith 16/1, Tina Weirather 18/1, Nicol Schmidhofer 20/1, 22/1 bar

World Ski Championships Betting 2017 Men’s Super G Odds

Kjetil Jansrud 12/1, Beat Feuz 11/2, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 9/1, Hannes Reichelt 9/1, Matthias Mayer 10/1, Dominik Paris 14/1, Max Franz 16/1, Carlo Janka 18/1, 20/1 bar

World Ski Championships Betting 2017 Men’s Downhill Odds

Beat Feuz 7/2, Hannes Reichelt 5/1, Kjetil Jansrud 6/1, Peter Fill 7/1, DOminik Paris 8/1, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 14/1, Carlo Janka 16/1, Matthias Mayer 16/1, Max Franz 18/1, Travis Ganong 20/1, 25/1 bar

Perhaps the most famous name that you are going to see there is America’s Lindsey Vonn. She is going to be the headline act and the speed queen will be looking to shake off injuries, including a broken arm she suffered late last year. She has had mixed fortunes in her limited time of five World Cup races since getting back to action, but she did win Garmisch-Partenkirchen for the 77th World Cup win of her career. She needs nine more wins to equal the all-time record. Vonn is running at 10/3 with Boylesports to win the Downhill and 6/1 to hit the Super G title ,the latter being the tougher of the two challenges for her.

But around the success of her comeback she has had a couple of crashes and she’s pushing limits again as she is aiming to run in the Downhill, Super-G and the combined events. If she goes in the combined, she may have a run at a Salon too, something which she hasn’t done since getting back from injury. One again she is going to have to battle Lara Gut and battle hard.

When they went up for their speed-race in the 2009 Ski World Championships, you would have imagined that the two of them would go on to claim a hatfull of golds at he World Ski Championships. But neither have since. Gut will be a strong home favorite at St Moritz and won her first World Cup title last year. Gut took her first downhill win of the new season in Italy recently, after losing to Von in the Germany the week before. 25 year old Guy looks the strongest option in the Super G, a discipline in which she has won three times this season.

Vonn is likely to be slight favorite to land the Downhill. So while those two are going to be producing some big headline times across the World Ski Championships 2017, there have been strong enough recent performances like Swiss skier Sofia Goggia and Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec to suggest that these races are going to be tight and just Vonn and Gut. Vonn’s teammate Mikaela Shiffrin looks a red hot shot for the Slalom title (her third in a row) and they make up a very strong US team in Switzerland.

Austria (historically) are the world’s leading ski team and they will be sending out a strong team featuring Marcel Hirscher who is targeting a sixth consecutive World Cup title and they also have Anna Veith (giant slalom, slalom) and Hannes Reichelt (super-G) defending their titles. Over in the Men’s Downhill, it is likely to produce the closest race of all the events at the World Ski Championships Betting 2017 with five different men having won the five World Cup downhills this season, with Beat Feuz a strong contender on top and could take some stopping.