Altogether, eleven nations won medals as Austria returned to the top of the medals table with eight medals, of which four were golden (4 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze). Behind Austria, France claimed 2nd place with four medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) ahead of Italy (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze) whose strong men's team featured the only triple medalist at GAP 2011, Christof Innerhofer, who captured one medal of each color. The ladies queen of GAP 2011 was the speed double world champion Elisabeth Görgl who won downhill and super-G.
Austria lived up to its reputation of being the grand ski nation. If one of their athletes failed or dropped out, someone else took over. Although the Austrian men were not able to win any titles for their country, the ladies did their job convincingly and impressively well. Only the giant slalom title was won by another nation than Austria. The Austrian ladies collected four gold medals in total, two by Liz Görgl, one by Anna Fenninger and one by Marlies Schild,. In addition Austria grabbed three silver and one bronze.
Titles also went to France (2-1-1), Italy (1-2-3), the USA (1-2-0), Slovenia (1-1-0), Canada (1-0-0) and Norway (1-0-0). Sweden was able to win one silver and three bronze medals, Switzerland scored a silver medal and Germany two third places. Croatia gets one bronze.
With these World Championships, Austria extended its lead in the eternal medals table even further, prevailing ahead of Switzerland (one silver at GAP 2011) and France (two gold medals, one silver and one bronze at GAP 2011).
The table considering all medals won in World Championships looks as of now.
1. Austria: 83 x gold, 85 silver, 83 bronze
2. Switzerland: 61 x gold, 64 silver, 55 bronze
3. France: 38 x gold, 49 silver, 30 bronze
The Milka-Ski-Girls also collected an impressive number of medals: 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. First and foremost, Tina Maze contributed to the good result by earning two medals (gold in giant slalom and silver in the combination) but also Maria Riesch (bronze in downhill and super G) and Michaela Kirchgasser (silver in the team competition) did their share.
