Beijing 2022 Alpine skiing wrap-up – top stories, moments and records

Alpine skiing featured 11 events at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and Swiss athletes got the lion's share by winning almost half of them.

Beat Feuz cemented his status as 'downhill king', while speed stars Corinne Suter and Lara Gut-Behrami added an Olympic crown to their world titles. Overall World Cup leader Marco Odermatt overcame a difficult start with a superb performance in giant slalom under tricky conditions to grab gold, while Michelle Gisin successfully defended her combined title from PyeongChang 2018.

The Swiss team won a total of nine medals, the most since Austria took 12 at Torino 2006.

The 'Wunderteam' followed Switzerland with seven medals, including two individual golds: Matthias Mayer confirmed his Olympic pedigree with a third gold medal in as many Games, while Johannes Strolz continued his family tradition by emulating his father Hubert with an Olympic title in the combined event.

While we sometimes see surprise winners in the sport at the Winter Games, that wasn't the case of Petra Vlhova and Sara Hector: the Slovak and the Swede took the women's slalom and giant slalom title respectively after ruling their discipline through the season.

In the men's slalom, one of the most unpredictable events at these Games with six different winners in as many World Cup races, Clement Noel had his redemption moment: after a complicated season the Frenchman claimed gold in a discipline where he's been consistently one of the top performers.

The 29-year-old Austrian earned the first World Cup victory of his career in January and only last month he booked his ticket to Beijing 2022. In China he achieved the historic feat of winning gold in the combined event 34 years after his father Hubert at Calgary 1988,