| 2019–20 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Discipline | Men | Women | |
| Overall |
 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
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 Federica Brignone
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| Downhill |
 Beat Feuz
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Corinne Suter
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| Super-G |
Mauro Caviezel
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Corinne Suter
|
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| Giant Slalom |
Henrik Kristoffersen
|
Federica Brignone
|
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| Slalom |
Henrik Kristoffersen
|
 Petra Vlhová
|
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| Alpine Combined |
 Alexis Pinturault
|
Federica Brignone
|
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| Parallel |
Loïc Meillard
|
Petra Vlhová
|
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| Nations Cup |
Switzerland
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Italy
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| Nations Cup Overall |
Switzerland
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| Competition | |||
| Locations |
20 venues
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17 venues
|
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| Individual |
36 events
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30 events
|
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| Mixed |
0 event
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0 event
|
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| Cancelled |
12 events
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16 events
|
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| Rescheduled |
4 events
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5 events
|
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The International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup, the premier circuit for alpine skiing competition, began in January 1967, and the 2019–20 season marked the 54th consecutive year for the FIS World Cup. As it had every year since 2006 (when the Sölden races were cancelled by a snowstorm), the season began in Sölden, Austria in October. The season was supposed to end with the World Cup finals in March, which were to be held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for the first time since they began in 1993, but the finals were cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.
As part of an effort to control the expansion of the World Cup circuit while fighting increased specialization, the city events were dropped this season, to be replaced by more parallel events at regular venues, while the Alpine combined was expanded. Due to the recent dominance of slalom specialists in the Alpine combined races, the format for that discipline was changed this season. As was previously the case, the first run continued to be the speed discipline (with Super-G having the preference over downhill). However, instead of the slalom run starting in reverse order of finish in the speed run, which allowed the slalom specialists (who tended to be slower in the speed run) to tackle fresh snow for their slalom run, while the speed specialists had to face the more challenging rutted snow at the end of the day, the skiers in the slalom run now started in the same order as the finish of the speed run, with the leader after the speed run becoming the first to race on the fresh slalom course.
Parallel format was also changed to make the race more TV-friendly. Parallel races now began with one classic qualification run with a single competitor on the slope (which was shown in the live TV broadcast), after which the top 32 qualifiers by time advanced to the elimination phase of the main competition. The round of 32 used the current run and re-run format, so that each competitor got to start from each side, but from the round of 16 forward, there was only one run per race and a direct knockout system. However, the new format immediately became controversial, as making two giant slalom courses equal in a single-run format proved impossible, and both the first men's and women's parallel giant slalom races suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative—in the men's race, all eight round-of-16 matches were won by the racer on the same randomly-selected course, and in the women's race, 17 of 20 winners came from the same course.
In addition, a new sixth discipline—parallel events (which combined parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom in points distribution)—was introduced, joining downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and combined. A small crystal globe was to be awarded to the winner.
On 1 February 2020, then-women's World Cup overall leader (and 3-time defending champion) Mikaela Shiffrin's father Jeff suffered grave injuries in an accident, and Shiffrin immediately left the World Cup tour. His injuries proved fatal, and Shiffrin remained off the tour for the rest of the season.
Men
- The number of races in the World Cup history
| Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | AC | PS | PG | CE | K.O. | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1782 | 496 | 217 | 419 | 497 | 134 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 291 |
including DH in Kvitfjell (7 March 2020)
Calendar
Rankings
Overall
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Downhill
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Super-G
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Giant slalom
Parallel (2 PG)
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Slalom
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Alpine combined
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Ladies
- The number of races in the World Cup history
| Total | DH | SG | GS | SL | AC | PS | PG | CE | K.O. | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1666 | 417 | 238 | 418 | 469 | 106 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 249 |
including SG in La Thuile (29 February 2020)
Calendar
| # | Event | Date | Venue | Type | Winner | Second | Third | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1637 | 1 | 26 October 2019 |
 Sölden
|
GS 413 |
 Alice Robinson
|
 Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Tessa Worley
|
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| 1638 | 2 | 23 November 2019 |
 Levi
|
SL 464 |
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Wendy Holdener
|
Katharina Truppe
|
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| 1639 | 3 | 30 November 2019 |
Killington
|
GS 414 |
Marta Bassino
|
Federica Brignone
|
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
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| 1640 | 4 | 1 December 2019 | SL 465 |
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Petra Vlhová
|
 Anna Swenn-Larsson
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| 1641 | 5 | 6 December 2019 |
 Lake Louise
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DH 410 |
 Ester Ledecká
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Corinne Suter
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Stephanie Venier
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| 1642 | 6 | 7 December 2019 | DH 411 |
Nicole Schmidhofer
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Mikaela Shiffrin
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Francesca Marsaglia
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| 1643 | 7 | 8 December 2019 | SG 233 |
 Viktoria Rebensburg
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Nicol Delago
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Corinne Suter
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| 1644 | 8 | 14 December 2019 | St. Moritz
|
SG 234 |
Sofia Goggia
|
Federica Brignone
|
Mikaela Shiffrin
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| 1645 | 9 | 15 December 2019 | PS 006 |
Petra Vlhová
|
Anna Swenn-Larsson
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Franziska Gritsch
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| 1646 | 10 | 17 December 2019 |
Courchevel
|
GS 415 |
Federica Brignone
|
Mina Fürst Holtmann
|
Wendy Holdener
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| 21 December 2019 |
Val d'Isère
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DH cnx | heavy snowfall; recheduled in Val d'Isère on 22 December | |||||
| 22 December 2019 | AC cnx | cancelled due to switched program schedule with downhill | ||||||
| 22 December 2019 | DH cnx | cancelled for the second time; heavy snowfall again; rescheduled in Bansko on 24 January | ||||||
| 1647 | 11 | 28 December 2019 |
Lienz
|
GS 416 |
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Marta Bassino
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Katharina Liensberger
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| 1648 | 12 | 29 December 2019 | SL 466 |
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Petra Vlhová
|
Michelle Gisin
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| 1649 | 13 | 4 January 2020 |
 Zagreb
|
SL 467 |
Petra Vlhová
|
Mikaela Shiffrin
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Katharina Liensberger
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| 1650 | 14 | 11 January 2020 |
Altenmarkt
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DH 412 | Corinne Suter
|
Nicol Delago
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Michelle Gisin
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| 1651 | 15 | 12 January 2020 | AC 105 |
Federica Brignone
|
Wendy Holdener
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Marta Bassino
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| 1652 | 16 | 14 January 2020 |
Flachau
|
SL 468 |
Petra Vlhová
|
Anna Swenn-Larsson
|
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
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| 1653 | 17 | 18 January 2020 |
Sestriere
|
GS 417 |
Federica Brignone Petra Vlhová
|
Mikaela Shiffrin
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| 1654 | 18 | 19 January 2020 | PG 001 |
Clara Direz
|
Elisa Mörzinger
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Marta Bassino
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| 1655 | 19 | 24 January 2020 |
 Bansko
|
DH 413 |
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Federica Brignone
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Joana Hählen
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| 1656 | 20 | 25 January 2020 | DH 414 |
Elena Curtoni
|
Marta Bassino
|
Federica Brignone
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| 1657 | 21 | 26 January 2020 | SG 235 |
Mikaela Shiffrin
|
Marta Bassino
|
Lara Gut-Behrami
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| 1 February 2020 |
 Rosa Khutor
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DH cnx | cancelled due to heavy snowfall; rescheduled in Crans-Montana on 21 February | |||||
| 1658 | 22 | 2 February 2020 | SG 236 |
Federica Brignone
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Sofia Goggia
|
Joana Hählen
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| 1659 | 23 | 8 February 2020 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
|
DH 415 |
Viktoria Rebensburg
|
Federica Brignone
|
Ester Ledecká
|
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| 1660 | 24 | 9 February 2020 | SG 237 | Corinne Suter
|
Nicole Schmidhofer
|
Wendy Holdener
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| 15 February 2020 |
 Maribor
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GS cnx | warm weather forecast; rescheduled in Kranjska Gora on 15–16 February | |||||
| 16 February 2020 | SL cnx | |||||||
| 1661 | 25 | 15 February 2020 |
Kranjska Gora
|
GS 418 |
Alice Robinson
|
Petra Vlhová
|
Wendy Holdener Meta Hrovat
|
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| 1662 | 26 | 16 February 2020 | SL 469 |
Petra Vlhová
|
Wendy Holdener
|
Katharina Truppe
|
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| 1663 | 27 | 21 February 2020 | Crans-Montana
|
DH 416 | Lara Gut-Behrami
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Corinne Suter
|
Stephanie Venier
|
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| 1664 | 28 | 22 February 2020 | DH 417 | Lara Gut-Behrami
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Corinne Suter
|
Nina Ortlieb
|
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| 1665 | 29 | 23 February 2020 | AC 106 |
Federica Brignone
|
Franziska Gritsch
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Ester Ledecká
|
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| 1666 | 30 | 29 February 2020 |
La Thuile
|
SG 238 |
Nina Ortlieb
|
Federica Brignone
|
Corinne Suter
|
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| 1 March 2020 | AC 107 | heavy snowfall | ||||||
| 7 March 2020 |
Ofterschwang
|
GS cnx | lack of snow and bad weather forecast | |||||
| 8 March 2020 | SL cnx | |||||||
| 12 March 2020 |
Åre
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PS cnx | Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic | |||||
| 13 March 2020 | GS cnx | |||||||
| 14 March 2020 | SL cnx | |||||||
| 18 March 2020 |
Cortina d'Ampezzo
|
DH cnx | ||||||
| 19 March 2020 | SG cnx | |||||||
| 21 March 2020 | SL cnx | |||||||
| 22 March 2020 | GS cnx | |||||||
Rankings
Overall
|
Downhill
|
Super-G
|
Giant slalom
|
Slalom
|
Alpine combined
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Parallel (1 PG + 1 PS)
|
Alpine team event
- World Cup history in real time
| Total | SL + SG | PGS | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 3 | 11 | 6 |
including PGS in Soldeu (15 March 2019)
Calendar
| # | Event | Date | Venue | Type | Winner | Second | Third | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2020 |
Cortina d'Ampezzo
|
PG cnx | Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic | |||||
Nations Cup
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Overall
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Men
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Ladies
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Prize money
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Top-5 men
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Top-5 ladies
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Retirements
The following athletes announced their retirements during or after the season:
