Single Penalty Status

Single Penalty Status

Competitors who are unable to compete in sufficient scored events to maintain their seed points because of injury, illness, studies, military obligations, or church commitments may protect their points through single penalty status.

Single penalty status cannot be requested for lack of calendar opportunities.

There is no such thing as a "Points Freeze". Points will either go down (through performance) or they will go up (through performance, inactivity, or injury). Applying for injury protection limits the amount your points will go up, but they do not freeze.

ACA and FIS Membership

ACA and FIS membership must be renewed each year in order to maintain points, even when an athlete has single penalty protection.

Single Penalty Status Process

FIS uses an online application process. A letter from the athlete's doctor that includes their name, a description of the injury, and the actual date of injury, must be included. The date of injury should match between the letter and the form.

The form for the Single Penalty Status is available above. FIS Single Penalty requests need to be emailed to insurance@alpinecanada.org with the form, the name of the athlete and email contact for the athlete.

The athlete will receive instructions on how to proceed.

NOTE: If you are injured for more than one year in a row, you must apply for injury protection each year - the protection does not carry over.

Deadline to Apply

Single Penalty requests must be submitted to ACA by April 15 of each season or as soon as the injury occurs. For FIS, any application that is submitted to FIS after April 30 will not be considered, there are no exceptions to this rule. The date for submittal to ACA is April 15 to allow time to apply, review and finalize applications.

FIS Rules

FIS Rules on injury protection from the FIS Rules of the Points book

4.6 Injury Status

4.6.1 Registration

When a competitor gets injured and applies for the single penalty, the National Ski Association must apply to the FIS as soon as possible or latest 30th April for the approval using the official online system (Injury Database). The medical certificate must report in detail the kind of injury and the period of recovery. This official form and medical certificate are only valid for one season. (World Cup: see World Cup Rules art 22.2)

4.6.1.1 Conditions

• Competitors must remain registered as active with the FIS to maintain
  injury protection.
• Competitors who exceed any one or more of the following start limitations are not eligible for injury protection:
  • Have started more than five (5) times in any one event in Level 1, 2, 3 or 4 competitions
  • Have started more than four (4) times in any one event in Level 0 competitions
  • Have started more than 15 times in all events in Level 1, 2, 3, or 4 competitions
  • Have started more than eight (8) times in all events in Level 0 competitions
• Injury protection is all or nothing, a competitor either qualifies, or does not, for all events based upon the above conditions.
• If a competitor starts before the eight (8) month period, their BL points will be recalculated to reflect their points without injury status.

Notes on the above section

Once you are over the start limit count in one discipline, you are ineligible for protection in all disciplines.

Point Calculations

4.2 FIS Points

4.2.1 Base FIS Points list (BL) (*)

The Base FIS Points List (BL) will be published middle of June.

4.2.1.1 The average of the best two results in each event during the past season will be used for the calculation of the BL list.

4.2.1.2 For competitors who have obtained only one result in any of the alpine events (Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super G or Alpine Combined), during the past season period, 20% (+) of their result will be added to the result.

4.2.1.3 For competitors who have not obtained results in any of the alpine events (Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super G or Alpine Combined), during the past season period, a 50% (>) will be added to their previous BL points. These competitors must remain registered as active with the FIS.

4.2.1.3.1 Competitors without injury status who have not obtained results in any event during a complete season and who are ranked in the top 30 of the BL after adding 50% will be automatically enrolled as 31st and receive the BL FIS points corresponding to rank 31st.

4.2.1.3.2 Competitors without results in any event during 2 complete seasons and have more than 999.99 BL points will be removed from the FIS list.

4.2.1.4 If the status as injured is approved, according to 4.6.1.1, then 10% (#) will be added to the competitor’s BL if the current points are not better than the protected points.