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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

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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

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# Skier DH
9 races
SG
6 races
GS
7 races
SL
9 races
AC
3 races
 PAR 
2 races
Total
NorwayAleksander Aamodt Kilde 413 336 225 0 172 56 1,202
2 France Alexis Pinturault 0 169 388 286 280 25 1,148
3 NorwayHenrik Kristoffersen 0 9 394 552 24 62 1,041
4 Austria Matthias Mayer 424 324 28 0 140 0 916
5 Austria Vincent Kriechmayr 362 362 0 0 70 0 794
6  Switzerland  Beat Feuz 650 142 0 0 0 0 792
7  Switzerland  Mauro Caviezel 220 365 0 0 80 4 669
8 NorwayKjetil Jansrud 248 305 0 0 112 0 665
9 Germany Thomas Dreßen 438 164 0 0 0 0 602
10  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 0 0 167 144 139 129 579
11 Italy Dominik Paris 384 145 0 0 27 0 556
12 France Clément Noël 0 0 0 550 0 0 550
13  Switzerland  Daniel Yule 0 0 0 495 0 0 495
14 Croatia Filip Zubčić 0 0 368 63 16 28 475
15 France Victor Muffat-Jeandet 0 1 191 143 124 6 465
16 Slovenia Žan Kranjec 0 0 364 22 0 59 445
17  Switzerland  Marco Odermatt 20 203 211 0 0 0 434
18 Austria Marco Schwarz 0 0 101 274 32 7 414
19 France Johan Clarey 316 89 0 0 0 0 405
20 United States Ryan Cochran-Siegle 143 58 82 0 70 22 375
21 NorwayLeif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen 0 0 249 27 0 61 337
22 United States Tommy Ford 0 0 267 0 0 58 325
23  Switzerland  Ramon Zenhäusern 0 0 0 323 0 0 323
24 United States Travis Ganong 169 140 0 0 0 0 309
25 NorwaySebastian Foss-Solevåg 0 0 0 297 0 0 297
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2020, after all events[6]

See also

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References

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  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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