2021 men's overall World Cup
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The men's overall in the 2021 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 35 events in 5 disciplines: downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and parallel. The sixth discipline, Alpine combined, had all three of its events in the 2020–21 season cancelled. The tentative season schedule contained 43 events (plus two team parallel events, including one at the season finals),[1] but the final schedule cut the season back to 38 events (and one team parallel event at the season finals).[2] The continuing danger of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the three Alpine combineds (Bormio, Wengen, Bansko) to be canceled in order to keep the speed skiers and the technical skiers separated during the season; additionally, two of the three parallels (Alta Badia, Chamonix) and the second team parallel (Lech/Zürs) were canceled so that other events could take their place and reduce travel. Ultimately, only three of those final 38 races were canceled -- two downhills and a Super-G -- and two of those were canceled by snowstorms during World Cup finals week, as discussed below.

In the next-to-last event during the season finals, French skier Alexis Pinturault clinched the overall season championship and the crystal globe that goes with it.[3]

In addition to the disruption resulting from the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the season was interrupted by the 2021 World Ski Championships, which were held from 8–21 February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

The last four events of the season were scheduled to take place at the final, Wednesday, 17 March through Sunday, 21 March in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship are eligible to compete in the final, with the exception that athletes who have scored at least 500 points in the overall classification are eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of standing in that discipline for the season. However, on 17 March, the downhill final had to be cancelled after three days of heavy snowfall.[4] On 18 March, the Super-G final was also cancelled, eliminating events in which runner-up Marco Odermatt of Switzerland had a perceived edge over Pinturault.[5] When Pinturault won the giant slalom held on 20 March, he gained an insurmountable lead over Odermatt.[6]

Standings

# Skier DH
7 races
SG
6 races
GS
10 races
SL
11 races
 PAR 
1 race
Total
France Alexis Pinturault 096700364100 1,260
2  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt 12631864900 1,093
3 Austria Marco Schwarz 001496650 814
4  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 0853933270 805
5 Croatia Filip Zubčić 0060613226 764
6 Norway Henrik Kristoffersen 0023640680 722
7 Austria Matthias Mayer 418276600 700
8 Austria Vincent Kriechmayr 267401700 675
9  Switzerland  Beat Feuz 486121000 607
10 Austria Manuel Feller 001074880 595
11 Norway Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 190172180018 560
12 France Clément Noël 0015530 554
13  Switzerland  Ramon Zenhäusern 0005030 503
14 Norway Sebastian Foss-Solevåg 0004310 431
15 Italy Dominik Paris 33888000 426
16 France Mathieu Faivre 00378026 404
17 France Victor Muffat-Jeandet 00623100 372
18 Germany Linus Straßer 0003472 349
19 France Johan Clarey 27263000 335
20 Germany Andreas Sander 161169000 330
21  Switzerland  Gino Caviezel 064215040 319
22  Switzerland  Mauro Caviezel 82225000 307
United States Ryan Cochran-Siegle 1361323900 307
24 Germany Romed Baumann 196103000 299
25 Austria Max Franz 18690000 276
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2021, after all events[7]

See also

References

  1. "Provisional World Cup calendar for men" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  2. "Official World Cup calendar for men" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  3. AFP (20 March 2021). "Pinturault marks 30th birthday in style with overall ski title". MSN. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  4. Associated Press (17 March 2021). "Goggia, Feuz win World Cup downhill titles after races cancelled". CBC. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  5. Associated Press (18 March 2021). "More World Cup races canceled, good for Vlhova, Pinturault". Associated Press. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  6. Staff (20 March 2021). "Pinturault celebrates 30th birthday with World Cup overall, giant slalom titles". CBC. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  7. "Official FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
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