The men's overall in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (10 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (10 races). The fifth and sixth disciplines in FIS ski events, parallel (PAR). and Alpine combined (AC), had all events in the 2022–23 season cancelled, either due to the schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic (AC) or due to bad weather (PAR). The original calendar contained 43 events, but in addition to the parallel, four downhills were cancelled over the course of the season.
The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France, which are located in Les Trois Vallées, from 6–19 February 2023. During the world championships, Norwegian star Atle Lie McGrath, who then was in 11th place overall, fell during the super-G and suffered a ACL tear, which required season-ending surgery.
Season summary From the very first race of the season, defending champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland seized the lead in the standings due to his abilities in all disciplines except for slalom. After the first fifteen races, he had built a lead of over 300 points over speed specialist Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway. However, after Odermatt was injured during a downhill at Kitzbühel on 20 January and had to miss the following few races, Kilde was able to draw within 200 points by 25 January. However, Odermatt won the next two races to push his lead back over 300 points.
When Kilde did not enter the two giant slaloms in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia on 11-12 March, Odermatt clinched the season championship due to holding a lead of over 400 points, while the maximum points potentially available to Kilde were only 400. But after winning both races, Odermatt entered the World Cup finals needing just 174 points from his three specialties to surpass Hermann Maier's men's all-time points record of 2,000 in one season, set in the 2000 season and only surpassed so far by two women: Tina Maze in 2013 and Mikaela Shiffrin in 2019 and this year. In his first two races during the finals, Odermatt finished 15th in downhill (16 points) and won the super-G (100 points), leaving him just 58 points short of Maier's record; a finish of third or better in the giant slalom would give Odermatt the record. He then won the giant slalom (by 2.11 seconds!) to set a new Men's World Cup points record of 2,042 points.
The victory also enabled Odermatt to tie the men's record of 13 victories in a season on the World Cup circuit, a record Odermatt now shares with Maier (2001), Ingemar Stenmark (1979), and Marcel Hirscher (2018) -- and behind only two women: Shiffrin (17 wins in 2019; 14 wins this year) and Vreni Schneider (14 wins in 1989).
Finals The last events of the season took place at the World Cup finals, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 through Sunday, 19 March 2023 in Soldeu, Andorra. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship in each discipline were eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that any skier who has scored at least 500 points in the overall classification was eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of his standing in that discipline for the season.
Standings #SkierDHSGGSSLTotal Marco Odermatt46274084002,0422 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde7605126801,3403 Henrik Kristoffersen006604941,1544 Lucas Braathen0363725469545 Vincent Kriechmayr614335409536 Loïc Meillard01344063378777 Marco Schwarz641514491998638 Alexis Pinturault02534091778399 Manuel Feller0020134554610 Ramon Zenhäusern00046746711 Zan Kranjec00464046412 James Crawford3261306046213 Gino Caviezel0161277043814 Mattia Casse2881430043115 Andreas Sander1562650042116 Daniel Hemetsberger2391750041417 Daniel Yule00040140118 Dominik Paris2101740038419 Johan Clarey343310037420 Atle Lie McGrath04510421536421 Alexander Steen Olsen008427535922 Stefan Rogentin13018000310 Romed Baumann244660031024 Niels Hintermann267410030825 Linus Straßer00030630626 Justin Murisier71176500297 Filip Zubcic002217629728 Clément Noël00029229229 Ryan Cochran-Siegle1491330028230 Raphael Haaser0141133027431 Matthias Mayer182860026832 Nils Allegre851580024333 Rasmus Windingstad00239023934 Florian Schieder222140023635 Timon Haugan00023123136 Beat Feuz179420022137 Tommaso Sala00021421438 Otmar Striedinger200110021139 Stefan Brennsteiner00210021040149580020741 Filippo Della Vite00196019642 Travis Ganong178140019243 Fabio Gstrein00019019044 Albert Popov00018218245 Dave Ryding00018118146 Alexander Schmid00178017847 Stefan Babinsky91650017448 Alex Vinatzer00615616249 Erik Read00886815650 Jeffrey Read191340015351 Kristoffer Jakobsen00015115152 Marc Rochat00015015053 Cyprien Sarrazin82616014954 Sebastian Foss-Solevåg000144144 Adrian Pertl00014414456 Josef Ferstl114240013857 Jared Goldberg110200013058 Adrien Theaux12360012959 Luca De Aliprandini00124012460 Gilles Roulin79380011761 Christof Innerhofer63530011662 Thomas Tumler00115011563 River Radamus01995011464 Cameron Alexander101110011265 Matteo Marsaglia55530010866 Brodie Seger45590010467 Guglielmo Bosca7940010168 Joan Verdú00100010069 Matthieu Bailet5445009970 AJ Ginnis0009191 Stefano Gross0009191 Samuel Kolega000919173 Alexis Monney78100088
See also 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's summary rankings 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's super-G 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom 2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall World Cup scoring system
References
External links Alpine skiing at FIS website