# 1986–87 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The 21st World Cup season began in August 1986 in Argentina for men, resumed in late November, and concluded in March 1987 in Sarajevo. The overall champions were Pirmin Zurbriggen and Maria Walliser, both of Switzerland, who each won for the second time. Two-time women's overall World Cup champion Erika Hess of Switzerland retired at the end of the season.
Along with the elimination of the Combined discipline championship, all of the combined races on the schedule were eliminated except for the traditional two combineds at Wengen, Switzerland (the Lauberhorn) and Kitzbühel, Austria (the Hahnenkamm) for the men and one at Mellau, Austria for the women. However, under new rules, points were only awarded to skiers who finished in the top 30 in each of the downhill and slalom; as a result, only two men earned points. In addition, despite the presence of two tiebreakers, the ladies' Giant Slalom discipline ended in a tie.
A break in the schedule was for the 1987 World Championships, held in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, between January 27 and February 8, 1987.

## Men
### Overall

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In Men's Overall World Cup 1986/87 the best four downhills, the best four Super Gs, best four giant slaloms, best four slaloms and both combined count. 30 racers had a point deduction.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 339 | 100 | 85 | 90 | 14 | 50 |
| 2 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 190 | 50 | 65 | 65 | 10 | 0 |
| 3 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 174 | 72 | 50 | 51 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Joël Gaspoz | Switzerland | 153 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 63 | 0 |
| 5 | Richard Pramotton | Italy | 139 | 0 | 28 | 85 | 26 | 0 |
| 6 | Ingemar Stenmark | Sweden | 134 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 85 | 0 |
| 7 | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 97 | 50 | 42 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Robert Erlacher | Italy | 94 | 0 | 44 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 90 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Bojan Križaj | Yugoslavia | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 0 |
| 11 | Karl Alpiger | Switzerland | 87 | 67 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Franz Heinzer | Switzerland | 84 | 75 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Günther Mader | Austria | 83 | 0 | 29 | 12 | 42 | 0 |
| 14 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 81 | 0 | 12 | 57 | 12 | 0 |
| 15 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 76 | 0 | 15 | 49 | 12 | 0 |
| 16 | Michael Mair | Italy | 74 | 70 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Armin Bittner | West Germany | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 0 |
| 18 | Daniel Mahrer | Switzerland | 66 | 58 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Andreas Wenzel | Liechtenstein | 63 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 20 |
| | Rudolf Nierlich | Austria | 63 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 29 | 0 |

### Downhill

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In Men's Downhill World Cup 1986/87 the best five results count. 15 racers had a point deduction, which are given in. Pirmin Zurbriggen won the cup with maximum points. Swiss athletes won 8 races out of 10.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 29 | 31 |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 125 | (10) | 25 | 25 | (10) | (8) | 25 | (7) | 25 | - | 25 | (5) |
| 2 | Peter Müller | Switzerland | 105 | 25 | 15 | (11) | (11) | - | 15 | (11) | (15) | 25 | - | 25 |
| 3 | Franz Heinzer | Switzerland | 90 | 15 | 15 | (9) | (12) | 25 | - | 15 | (11) | - | (8) | 20 |
| 4 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 83 | (6) | 11 | 20 | 15 | (6) | 12 | 25 | (10) | - | - | - |
| 5 | Michael Mair | Italy | 82 | - | - | 15 | 20 | (11) | 20 | - | - | 15 | 12 | - |
| 6 | Karl Alpiger | Switzerland | 79 | 20 | (10) | (4) | - | (9) | (5) | 20 | (7) | 12 | 15 | 12 |
| 7 | Daniel Mahrer | Switzerland | 68 | (7) | (9) | (1) | - | 12 | 11 | 10 | (6) | - | 20 | 15 |
| 8 | Rob Boyd | Canada | 62 | - | - | - | 25 | - | 10 | 5 | (5) | 11 | - | 11 |
| 9 | Peter Wirnsberger | Austria | 57 | 8 | 8 | - | (3) | 20 | (7) | 9 | 12 | (4) | (5) | - |
| 10 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 56 | 12 | 6 | - | - | 7 | (6) | - | - | 20 | 11 | - |
| | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 56 | 11 | 20 | (3) | 6 | - | (1) | (3) | 9 | (3) | (4) | 10 |

### Super G

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In Men's Super G World Cup 1986/87 all five results count, but no athlete was able to collect points in all five races. Pirmin Zurbriggen won the cup with only one win.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 6 | 16 | 28 | 30 | 32 |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 85 | - | 20 | 20 | 25 | 20 |
| 2 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 65 | 15 | - | 25 | - | 25 |
| 3 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 50 | 25 | 25 | - | - | - |
| 4 | Robert Erlacher | Italy | 44 | 20 | - | - | 12 | 12 |
| 5 | Leonhard Stock | Austria | 42 | 3 | - | 15 | 9 | 15 |
| 6 | Günther Mader | Austria | 29 | - | 10 | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| | Herbert Renoth | West Germany | 29 | 12 | 9 | - | - | 8 |
| 8 | Richard Pramotton | Italy | 28 | 8 | - | - | 20 | - |
| 9 | Michael Eder | West Germany | 26 | 10 | 5 | - | - | 11 |
| 10 | Guido Hinterseer | Austria | 24 | 4 | - | - | 10 | 10 |

### Giant Slalom

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In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1986/87 the best five results count. Zurbriggen and Gaspoz finished with the same number of points, but Zurbriggen was awarded the championship based on the victories tiebreaker (three wins to two).
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 4 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 21 | 26 | 34 |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 102 | 15 | - | 12 | (7) | 25 | 25 | 25 | (10) |
| 1 | Joël Gaspoz | Switzerland | 102 | 12 | - | 25 | 25 | - | 20 | (9) | 20 |
| 3 | Richard Pramotton | Italy | 95 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | - | (3) | 10 | - |
| 4 | Hubert Strolz | Austria | 66 | 20 | - | 11 | 9 | 15 | 11 | (5) | - |
| 5 | Marc Girardelli | Luxembourg | 65 | - | - | - | - | 20 | - | 20 | 25 |
| 6 | Markus Wasmeier | West Germany | 59 | - | (1) | 15 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 15 | - |
| 7 | Ingemar Stenmark | Sweden | 58 | - | 12 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | (8) | (9) |
| 8 | Robert Erlacher | Italy | 57 | 8 | 10 | (4) | 20 | (6) | 7 | 12 | - |
| 9 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | 52 | - | 20 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 11 | 12 |
| 10 | Helmut Mayer | Austria | 39 | - | - | 2 | 12 | 7 | - | 7 | 11 |

### Slalom

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In Men's Slalom World Cup 1986/87 the best five results count. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 3 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 33 |
| 1 | Bojan Križaj | Yugoslavia | 105 | (12) | (12) | 25 | 20 | 15 | 25 | (8) | 20 |
| 2 | Ingemar Stenmark | Sweden | 96 | 25 | 20 | 15 | - | 11 | (10) | 25 | - |
| 3 | Armin Bittner | West Germany | 78 | (5) | 9 | - | 25 | (5) | 15 | 20 | 9 |
| 4 | Joël Gaspoz | Switzerland | 71 | 11 | 15 | - | 12 | 25 | 8 | - | (7) |
| 5 | Grega Benedik | Yugoslavia | 55 | 10 | - | 6 | 8 | - | - | 6 | 25 |
| 6 | Mathias Berthold | Austria | 54 | (2) | - | 10 | 5 | 8 | 20 | (2) | 11 |
| 7 | Dietmar Köhlbichler | Austria | 52 | - | - | 5 | 9 | 20 | 7 | 11 | - |
| 8 | Günther Mader | Austria | 42 | - | 11 | 12 | - | 4 | - | 15 | - |
| 9 | Didier Bouvet | France | 41 | - | - | 8 | 6 | 12 | - | - | 15 |
| 10 | Jonas Nilsson | Sweden | 35 | 20 | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | 4 |

### Combined

In Men's Combined World Cup 1986/87 both results count. Only two racers scored points (Wengen and Kitzbuhel). Points were only awarded to athletes, who were able to finish in both events (downhill and slalom) in top thirty.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 20 | 24 |
| 1 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 50 | 25 | 25 |
| 2 | Andreas Wenzel | Liechtenstein | 20 | - | 20 |

## Ladies
### Overall

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In Women's Overall World Cup 1986/87 the best four downhills, the best four Super Gs, best four giant slaloms, best four slaloms and the only combined count. 26 racers had a point deduction. Swiss athletes took the first five places.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB |
| 1 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 269 | 75 | 82 | 100 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 262 | 23 | 41 | 100 | 78 | 20 |
| 3 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 206 | 30 | 46 | 38 | 67 | 25 |
| 4 | Erika Hess | Switzerland | 169 | 3 | 13 | 53 | 85 | 15 |
| 5 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 162 | 86 | 27 | 49 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Tamara McKinney | United States | 127 | 0 | 7 | 30 | 90 | 0 |
| 7 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 126 | 0 | 27 | 51 | 48 | 0 |
| 8 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 121 | 0 | 30 | 67 | 24 | 0 |
| 9 | Sigrid Wolf | Austria | 119 | 61 | 35 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Catherine Quittet | France | 118 | 31 | 57 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 118 | 30 | 52 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Corinne Schmidhauser | Switzerland | 112 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 95 | 0 |
| 13 | Michaela Gerg | West Germany | 109 | 25 | 39 | 45 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Anita Wachter | Austria | 107 | 12 | 47 | 12 | 36 | 0 |
| 15 | Laurie Graham | Canada | 76 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Elisabeth Kirchler | Austria | 74 | 32 | 26 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Regine Mösenlechner | West Germany | 69 | 59 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Camilla Nilsson | Sweden | 67 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 58 | 0 |
| 19 | Sylvia Eder | Austria | 63 | 10 | 18 | 25 | 0 | 10 |
| 20 | Roswitha Steiner | Austria | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 0 |

### Downhill

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In Women's Downhill World Cup 1986/87 the best five results count. Four racer had a point deduction, which are given in.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 5 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 1 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 93 | 25 | - | 11 | 25 | 25 | 7 | - |
| 2 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 90 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | (12) | (10) | 15 |
| 3 | Laurie Graham | Canada | 86 | 11 | 25 | 10 | (6) | 20 | (8) | 20 |
| 4 | Regine Mösenlechner | West Germany | 71 | (8) | (8) | 12 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 12 |
| 5 | Sigrid Wolf | Austria | 61 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 25 | 25 |
| 6 | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 35 | 5 | 6 | - | 10 | 9 | 5 | - |
| 7 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 33 | 3 | (1) | 8 | 4 | - | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | Elisabeth Kirchler | Austria | 32 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 20 | 11 |
| 9 | Catherine Quittet | France | 31 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 8 | - | - | - |
| 10 | Beatrice Gafner | Switzerland | 30 | - | - | 25 | - | - | - | 5 |

### Super G

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In Women's Super G World Cup 1986/87 all five results count.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 7 | 14 | 19 | 29 | 30 |
| 1 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 82 | 25 | 25 | 7 | - | 25 |
| 2 | Catherine Quittet | France | 57 | 20 | 12 | 25 | - | - |
| 3 | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 52 | - | 11 | 15 | 25 | 1 |
| 4 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 49 | 5 | 20 | 3 | 10 | 11 |
| 5 | Anita Wachter | Austria | 47 | 9 | 3 | - | 20 | 15 |
| 6 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 44 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Michaela Gerg | West Germany | 43 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 6 |
| 8 | Sigrid Wolf | Austria | 35 | - | - | - | 15 | 20 |
| 9 | Traudl Hächer | West Germany | 31 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 3 | - |
| | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 31 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 |

### Giant Slalom

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In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1986/87 the best five results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in. Vreni Schneider and Maria Walliser tied in the last race at Sarajevo and each finished with 120 points and identical tiebreakers (each had four victories (first tiebreaker) and 15 points as the sixth result (second tiebreaker)). Thus, they also shared the Giant Slalom discipline trophy. As a consequence, the scoring procedures were changed for the next season to remove the limitation on the number of results that would count; all results would count beginning with the 1987/88 season.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 31 |
| 1 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 120 | (15) | 25 | (12) | 25 | 20 | 25 | - | 25 |
| | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 120 | - | 20 | 25 | (15) | 25 | (15) | 25 | 25 |
| 3 | Blanca Fernández Ochoa | Spain | 78 | (6) | (10) | 20 | 11 | (10) | 20 | 15 | 12 |
| 4 | Erika Hess | Switzerland | 62 | 11 | 11 | 9 | (9) | - | 11 | 20 | (7) |
| 5 | Michela Figini | Switzerland | 55 | 12 | - | 15 | 6 | - | (6) | 7 | 15 |
| 6 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 51 | 20 | - | - | 20 | 11 | - | - | - |
| 7 | Michaela Gerg | West Germany | 48 | 25 | - | 3 | 8 | - | 7 | 5 | - |
| 8 | Marina Kiehl | West Germany | 42 | - | (4) | 6 | (5) | 8 | 10 | 12 | 6 |
| | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 42 | - | - | 11 | 8 | 15 | 4 | - | 4 |
| 10 | Catherine Quittet | France | 30 | 10 | - | 7 | - | 1 | 12 | - | - |

### Slalom

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In Women's Slalom World Cup 1986/87 the best five results count. Ten racers had a point deduction, which are given in.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 22 | 23 | 25 |
| 1 | Corinne Schmidhauser | Switzerland | 110 | 25 | - | (10) | (12) | (6) | 15 | (6) | 20 | 25 | 25 |
| 2 | Tamara McKinney | United States | 99 | 20 | - | 20 | 25 | - | - | 25 | 9 | - | - |
| 3 | Erika Hess | Switzerland | 96 | (4) | 25 | (7) | (3) | 25 | 11 | (9) | (8) | 15 | 20 |
| 4 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 84 | 6 | - | 25 | 8 | - | 20 | (4) | 25 | - | - |
| 5 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 77 | - | 20 | 15 | 10 | 20 | - | 12 | (5) | (10) | - |
| 6 | Roswitha Steiner | Austria | 74 | 15 | - | (11) | 20 | - | - | - | 12 | 12 | 15 |
| 7 | Monika Maierhofer | Austria | 67 | 11 | - | (8) | 15 | - | 10 | - | 11 | 20 | - |
| 8 | Camilla Nilsson | Sweden | 66 | 10 | (4) | (5) | (7) | - | 25 | 11 | (7) | 8 | 12 |
| 9 | Mateja Svet | Yugoslavia | 55 | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | 12 | 20 | (6) | - | 7 |
| 10 | Karin Buder | Austria | 53 | 12 | 15 | (4) | - | 11 | - | - | - | 5 | 10 |

### Combined

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In Women's Combined World Cup 1986/87 only one competition was held. Points were only awarded to athletes, who were able to finish in both events (downhill and slalom) in top thirty.
| Place | Name | Country | Total | 17 |
| 1 | Brigitte Oertli | Switzerland | 25 | 25 |
| 2 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 20 | 20 |
| 3 | Erika Hess | Switzerland | 15 | 15 |
| 4 | Maria Walliser | Switzerland | 12 | 12 |
| 5 | Karen Percy | Canada | 11 | 11 |
| 6 | Sylvia Eder | Austria | 10 | 10 |

## Nations Cup
### Overall

| Place | Country | Total | Men | Ladies |
| 1 | Switzerland | 2952 | 1270 | 1682 |
| 2 | Austria | 1691 | 913 | 778 |
| 3 | West Germany | 1072 | 572 | 500 |
| 4 | Italy | 787 | 666 | 121 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 398 | 245 | 153 |
| 6 | Sweden | 376 | 245 | 131 |
| 7 | Canada | 333 | 125 | 208 |
| 8 | France | 317 | 73 | 244 |
| 9 | United States | 282 | 35 | 247 |
| 10 | Luxembourg | 202 | 202 | 0 |
| 11 | Spain | 159 | 0 | 159 |
| 12 | Liechtenstein | 91 | 91 | 0 |
| 13 | Norway | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| 14 | Japan | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| 15 | Czechoslovakia | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| | Netherlands | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 17 | United Kingdom | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 2 | 2 | 0 |

### Men

| Place | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB | Racers | Wins |
| 1 | Switzerland | 1270 | 674 | 146 | 306 | 94 | 50 | 15 | 18 |
| 2 | Austria | 913 | 311 | 144 | 198 | 260 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 3 | Italy | 666 | 151 | 133 | 267 | 115 | 0 | 16 | 3 |
| 4 | West Germany | 572 | 148 | 146 | 144 | 134 | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 245 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 224 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| | Sweden | 245 | 2 | 0 | 81 | 162 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 202 | 62 | 65 | 65 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Canada | 125 | 112 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 9 | Liechtenstein | 91 | 0 | 34 | 15 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | France | 73 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 46 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | Norway | 36 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | United States | 35 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 | Japan | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | United Kingdom | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

### Ladies

| Place | Country | Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | KB | Racers | Wins |
| 1 | Switzerland | 1682 | 359 | 220 | 519 | 512 | 72 | 14 | 23 |
| 2 | Austria | 778 | 173 | 126 | 93 | 376 | 10 | 19 | 2 |
| 3 | West Germany | 500 | 187 | 152 | 152 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 2 |
| 4 | United States | 247 | 56 | 18 | 61 | 112 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | France | 244 | 34 | 62 | 73 | 75 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 208 | 144 | 36 | 17 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 1 |
| 7 | Spain | 159 | 0 | 31 | 104 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Yugoslavia | 153 | 0 | 27 | 54 | 72 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 9 | Sweden | 131 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 116 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 10 | Italy | 121 | 17 | 23 | 13 | 68 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | Netherlands | 16 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |