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. 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; the following six were all canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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). When the season never resumed after that race, Kilde clinched the overall season championship and the crystal globe that goes with it.
Standings #SkierDHSGGSSLAC PAR Total4133362250172561,2022 Alexis Pinturault0169388286280251,1483 Henrik Kristoffersen0939455224621,0414 Matthias Mayer42432428014009165 Vincent Kriechmayr362362007007946 Beat Feuz65014200007927 Mauro Caviezel220365008046698 Kjetil Jansrud2483050011206659 Thomas Dreßen438164000060210 Loïc Meillard0016714413912957911 Dominik Paris3841450027055612 Clément Noël0005500055013 Daniel Yule0004950049514 Filip Zubčić0036863162847515 Victor Muffat-Jeandet01191143124646516 Žan Kranjec003642205944517 Marco Odermatt2020321100043418 Marco Schwarz0010127432741419 Johan Clarey31689000040520 Ryan Cochran-Siegle14358820702237521002492706133722 Tommy Ford00267005832523 0003230032324 Travis Ganong169140000030925 Sebastian Foss-Solevåg00029700297
See also 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's summary rankings 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's super-G 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's combined 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's parallel 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall World Cup scoring system
References
External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website