2020 men's overall World Cup
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The men's overall in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 36 events in 6 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), Alpine combined (AC), and parallel (PAR). The season was originally scheduled to have 44 men's races plus a mixed team event, but a race in Japan plus final the seven men's races and the mixed team event were all cancelled, as discussed below.

A new overall champion was certain to be crowned, as Marcel Hirscher of Austria, the winner of the previous 8 World Cup overall titles, had retired at the end of the 2019 season, and all winners prior to him had also retired.[1] And the battle eventually turned into a three-man battle between two Norwegians -- Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, a speed specialist, and Henrik Kristoffersen, a technical specialist -- and a Frenchman -- Alexis Pinturault, who competes in all disciplines.

After only canceling one race all season (in Japan) thanks to aggressive rescheduling, the season was terminated with the final seven events all being canceled. The first was cancelled due to wind and fog;[2] the following six were all canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] The last event completed prior to the premature shutdown was a downhill at Kvitfjell, and in that race, Kilde (who finished second, worth 80 points) grabbed the overall lead by 54 points from Pinturault (who failed to finish in the top 30 and thus did not score).[4] When the season never resumed after that race, Kilde clinched the overall season championship and the crystal globe that goes with it.[5]

Standings

# Skier DH
9 races		 SG
6 races		 GS
7 races		 SL
9 races		 AC
3 races		  PAR 
2 races		 Total
Norway  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 413336225017256 1,202
2 France Alexis Pinturault 016938828628025 1,148
3 Norway  Henrik Kristoffersen 093945522462 1,041
4 Austria Matthias Mayer 4243242801400 916
5 Austria Vincent Kriechmayr 36236200700 794
6  Switzerland  Beat Feuz 6501420000 792
7  Switzerland  Mauro Caviezel 22036500804 669
8 Norway  Kjetil Jansrud 248305001120 665
9 Germany Thomas Dreßen 4381640000 602
10  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 00167144139129 579
11 Italy Dominik Paris 38414500270 556
12 France Clément Noël 00055000 550
13  Switzerland  Daniel Yule 00049500 495
14 Croatia Filip Zubčić 00368631628 475
15 France Victor Muffat-Jeandet 011911431246 465
16 Slovenia Žan Kranjec 0036422059 445
17  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt 20203211000 434
18 Austria Marco Schwarz 00101274327 414
19 France Johan Clarey 316890000 405
20 United States Ryan Cochran-Siegle 143588207022 375
21 Norway  Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen 0024927061 337
22 United States Tommy Ford 002670058 325
23  Switzerland  Ramon Zenhäusern 00032300 323
24 United States Travis Ganong 1691400000 309
25 Norway  Sebastian Foss-Solevåg 00029700 297
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2020, after all events[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Willemsen, Eric (4 September 2019). "Olympic skiing champion Marcel Hirscher retires". AP News. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Herrod, Megan (8 March 2020). "Kvitfjell Super-G Cancelled Due to Weather; 2019-20 Speed Season Complete". US Ski and Snowboard. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Slater, Georgia (6 March 2020). "Alpine Ski World Cup Finals Finals in Italy Canceled Due to Coronavirus Outbreak". People. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  4. ↑ Associated Press (7 March 2020). "Kilde takes World Cup lead with 2nd in downhill won by Mayer". AP News. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Associated Press (12 March 2020). "Season-ending ski races canceled, Kilde wins World Cup title". AP News. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "Official FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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