The men's giant slalom in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved seven events, as the last two scheduled giant slaloms in the season were cancelled.
After the retirement of Marcel Hirscher, who had won the last five season titles in giant slalom, the 2020 race in the discipline was wide open, although the focus was on the two skiers fighting for the overall title: Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway and Alexis Pinturault of France. After Pinturault won the seventh giant slalom of the season (his third giant slalom victory in 2020; no one else had two), prior discipline leader Žan Kranjec of Slovenia dropped into fourth place, and Kristofferson (who finished third) was clinging to a six-point lead for the discipline championship over Pinturault with two races to go.
However, first the World Cup finals scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo were cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, and then the races scheduled in Kranjska Gora were also cancelled by the pandemic. The cancellations handed the season title in giant slalom (as well as the title in slalom) to Kristoffersen without the expected showdown.
Standings #Skier Total138010060364560xx3942 Alexis Pinturault 10014322610016100xx 3883 Filip ZubčićDNF13226805010080xx 3684 Žan Kranjec 605060100452920xx 3645 Tommy Ford 5010011DNF1246022xx2676266024DNF1605029xx 2497 Mathieu Faivre8040932221329xx 225 10DNF15045404040xx2259 Marco Odermatt20DNF145DNS168050xx21110 Victor Muffat-Jeandet 34576032368xx19111 Loïc MeillardDNF215221480DNS36xx16712 Ted Ligety 4524DNF136182415xx 16213 Luca De Aliprandini 321815DNF2132645xx14914 Gino Caviezel 292914DNF1262218xx13815 Lucas Braathen 401632201215DNF1xx 13516 Cyprien Sarrazin DNQ2080DNF2DNQ310xx11317 Roland Leitinger 1210840DNF12013xx10318 Marco Schwarz DNS64024DNQ812xx10119 Alexander Schmid4112011201115xx9220 Ryan Cochran-Siegle 24812139DNQ16xx 8221 Matts Olsson1422DNF124DNF1812xx8022 Stefan Luitz15DNF1DNQDNQ29DNS32xx7623 Erik Read36DNF2DNF171497xx7324 Thibaut Favrot61320DNF2DNQ32DNF1xx7125 Trevor Philp536DNQDNQ1169xx67References
DNS = Did not start DNF1 = Did not finish run 1 DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2 DNF2 = Did not finish run 2
Updated at 21 March 2020 after all events.
See also 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's summary rankings 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's super-G 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's combined 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's parallel World Cup scoring system
References
External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website