2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's parallel

The women's parallel competition in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup was contested as a World Cup discipline separate from slalom for the first time in 2020. Prior to the season, FIS decided to combine parallel skiing events (including all of parallel giant slalom, parallel slalom, and city events (parallel slaloms held on courses built within cities)) into a new discipline, joining the existing disciplines of downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and Alpine combined. The discipline winner would receive a small crystal globe, similar to the other disciplines.[1] However, at the same time, FIS decided to drop the city events to reduce the amount of travel required during the World Cup season, planning to replace them with more parallel events at regular venues.[2]

2020 Women's parallel World Cup
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The parallel format was also changed to make the race more TV-friendly. Parallel races now began with one classic qualification run to determine the top 32, who advanced to the elimination phase of the main competition. The round of 32 used the existing 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—the loser of each race was gone.[3] However, the new format immediately became controversial, as making two giant slalom courses equal in a single-run format proved impossible, and the first women's parallel giant slalom race suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative—17 of 20 winners came from the same course.[4]

Ultimately, only two parallel events, the first a parallel slalom (PS) and the second a parallel giant slalom (PG), were held in the 2019–20 season. A third event, another parallel slalom, had been scheduled for Åre, Sweden, near the end of the season, but it was canceled to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] In the two parallel events that were held, Slovakian skier Petra Vlhová won the first event and also won the first-ever discipline championship and accompanying crystal globe for women in parallel. At this time, individual parallel races were not included in the season finals, which were scheduled in 2020 for Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy but were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Standings

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# Skier
15 Dec 2019
St. Moritz

   
PS
19 Jan 2020
Sestriere

 
PG
12 Mar 2020
Åre

 
PS
Tot.
    Petra Vlhová 100 13 x 113
2   Clara Direz DNS 100 x 100
3   Federica Brignone 40 50 x 90
4   Anna Swenn-Larsson 80 DNS x 80
  Elisa Mörzinger DNS 80 x 80
6   Marta Bassino 18 60 x 78
7   Kristin Lysdahl 26 40 x 66
8   Franziska Gritsch 60 DNS x 60
9   Meta Hrovat 50 8 x 58
10   Sofia Goggia 10 45 x 55
11   Laurence St. Germain 45 DNS x 45
12     Aline Danioth 22 16 x 38
13     Wendy Holdener 11 26 x 37
14   Nina Haver-Løseth 36 DNS x 36
  Thea Louise Stjernesund DNS 36 x 36
16   Sara Hector 12 22 x 34
17   Ana Bucik 32 DNS x 32
  Tina Robnik DNS 32 x 32
19   Nina O'Brien 7 24 x 31
20   Estelle Alphand 29 DNS x 29
  Mikaela Shiffrin DNS 29 x 29
22   Katharina Truppe 24 2 x 26
23     Lara Gut-Behrami DNS 20 x 20
  Christina Ackermann 20 DNS x 20
25   Laura Pirovano DNS 18 x 18
References [6] [7] [5]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNS = Did Not Start
  • Updated at 22 March 2020, after all events.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The stage is set for the alpine World Cup 2018/19". Archived from the original on 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  2. ^ Associated Press (25 October 2019). "Ski federation says 'too many races' on Alpine World Cup schedule". NBC Sports. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Updates from the FIS Autumn Meetings". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  4. ^ OlympicTalk (19 January 2020). "Mikaela Shiffrin among favorites eliminated early in parallel giant slalom". NBC Sports. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b Mintz, Geoff; Moran, Mackenzie (11 March 2020). "World Cup races in Are, Sweden canceled, ending women's WC season". skiracing.com. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup St. Moritz Women PS (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  7. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Sestriere Women PG (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  8. ^ "Official FIS 2020 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
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