2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall

Alpine ski discipline year standings
2020 women's overall World Cup
  • Federica Brignone of Italy, season champion
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The women's overall in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 30 events in 6 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), Alpine combined (AC), and parallel (PAR). This was the first year that parallel was treated as a separate discipline; prior to the 2019–20 season, it had been a sub-element of the slalom discipline. The season had originally been scheduled to have 41 races (plus one mixed-team race at the World Cup finals), but 11 races that had originally been scheduled (and the mixed-team race) were canceled during the season, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as discussed below.[1]

As a side note, in a preseason vote FIS voted to change its official designation in the English language (but not in French or German) for female competitors from "Ladies" to "Women".[2] All new FIS documents in English will immediately begin to use the new terminology.[2]

Three-time defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States had established a significant lead when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season.[3] After her departure, the two skiers closest to her in the overall standings, Federica Brignone of Italy and Petra Vlhová of Slovakia, competed in every event remaining in the season, regardless of the discipline, in an attempt to pass Shiffrin.

Brignone grabbed the lead when she won the Alpine combined race in Crans Montana on 23 February and Vlhová, who had been second-fastest in the Super-G leg, straddled a gate in the slalom and didn't score any points.[4] After just one more race six days later, the season was terminated; all of the final ten events were canceled due to a combination of bad weather for the first three and the COVID-19 pandemic for the remainder.[5] As a result, Brignone became the first Italian woman ever to win the women's overall World Cup championship and the crystal globe that comes with it.[6]

Standings

# Skier DH
8 races 		SG
6 races 		GS
6 races 		SL
6 races 		AC
2 races 		 PAR 
2 races 		Total
Italy Federica Brignone 320 341 407 20 200 90 1,378
2 United States Mikaela Shiffrin 256 186 314 440 0 29 1,225
3 Slovakia Petra Vlhová 164 119 333 460 0 113 1,189
4  Switzerland  Corinne Suter 477 360 0 0 0 0 837
5 Italy Marta Bassino 206 164 309 0 60 78 817
6  Switzerland  Wendy Holdener 24 111 234 260 125 37 791
7  Switzerland  Lara Gut-Behrami 288 209 99 0 0 20 616
8  Switzerland  Michelle Gisin 98 92 142 209 50 0 591
9 Germany Viktoria Rebensburg 211 180 160 0 0 5 556
10 Czech Republic Ester Ledecká 322 81 0 0 100 0 503
11 Italy Sofia Goggia 162 180 82 0 0 55 479
12 Austria Nina Ortlieb 233 191 0 0 48 0 479
13 Austria Nicole Schmidhofer 228 217 0 0 0 0 445
14 Austria Stephanie Venier 233 205 0 0 0 0 438
15 Italy Elena Curtoni 246 143 0 0 45 0 434
16 Austria Katharina Liensberger 0 0 108 276 0 17 401
17 France Romane Miradoli 153 138 3 0 36 0 330
18 Sweden Anna Swenn-Larsson 0 0 0 235 0 80 315
19 New Zealand Alice Robinson 0 0 300 0 7 3 310
20 Norway  Mina Fürst Holtmann 0 0 212 84 0 10 306
21  Switzerland  Joana Hählen 167 130 0 0 0 0 297
22 Austria Katharina Truppe 0 0 59 209 0 26 294
23 Norway  Nina Haver-Løseth 0 0 26 228 0 36 290
24 Italy Francesca Marsaglia 199 76 10 0 0 0 285
25 Slovenia Meta Hrovat 0 0 168 53 0 58 279
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2020, after all events[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "FIS ski world cup 2019-20 calendar, schedule dates confirmed". SportsHistory.com. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b Etchells, Daniel (14 June 2019). "New FIS terminology sees "women" replace "ladies"". Inside the Games. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. ^ Meyer, John (3 February 2020). "Jeff Shiffrin, father of Colorado skier Mikaela Shiffrin, dies". Denver Post. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  4. ^ Associated Press (23 February 2020). "Brignone tops World Cup overall standings with combined win". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  5. ^ Mintz, Geoff; Moran, Mackenzie (11 March 2020). "World Cup races in Are, Sweden canceled, ending women's WC season". skiracing.com. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  6. ^ Wiegand, Jenny (13 March 2020). "Coronavirus Brings Alpine World Cup Season to Abrupt End". Ski. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Official FIS women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

External links

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World Cup women's winners: Overall • Downhill • Super-G • Giant Slalom • Slalom • Combined • Parallel