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), but the final schedule cut the season back to 38 events (and one team parallel event at the season finals). 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.
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. 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. When Pinturault won the giant slalom held on 20 March, he gained an insurmountable lead over Odermatt.
Standings #SkierDH7 racesSG6 racesGS10 racesSL11 races PAR 1 raceTotal Alexis Pinturault0967003641001,2602 Marco Odermatt 126318649001,0933 Marco Schwarz0014966508144 Loïc Meillard08539332708055 Filip Zubčić00606132267646 Henrik Kristoffersen00236406807227 Matthias Mayer4182766007008 Vincent Kriechmayr 2674017006759 Beat Feuz48612100060710 Manuel Feller 0010748805951119017218001856012 Clément Noël001553055413 Ramon Zenhäusern000503050314 Sebastian Foss-Solevåg000431043115 Dominik Paris3388800042616 Mathieu Faivre0037802640417 Victor Muffat-Jeandet0062310037218 Linus Straßer000347234919 Johan Clarey2726300033520 Andreas Sander16116900033021 Gino Caviezel06421504031922 Mauro Caviezel82225000307 Ryan Cochran-Siegle136132390030724 Romed Baumann19610300029925 Max Franz18690000276
See also 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's summary rankings 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's super-G 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's parallel 2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall World Cup scoring system
References
External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website