2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's parallel

The men'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 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 men'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 close to impossible, and the first men's parallel giant slalom races suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative: all eight round-of-16 matches were won by the racer on the same randomly-selected course.[4]

Ultimately, only two parallel events, both parallel giant slaloms, were scheduled and held in the 2019–20 season. Swiss skier Loïc Meillard won the second event and also won the first-ever discipline championship for men 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
23 Dec 2019
Alta Badia

 
PG
09 Feb 2020
Chamonix

 
PG
Total
      Loïc Meillard 29 100 129
2   Rasmus Windingstad 100 3 103
3   Stefan Luitz 80 2 82
4     Thomas Tumler DNQ 80 80
5   Roland Leitinger 60 13 73
  Alexander Schmid 13 60 73
7   Thibaut Favrot 26 40 66
8   Henrik Kristoffersen 36 26 62
9   Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen 50 11 61
10   Žan Kranjec 14 45 59
  Lucas Braathen 45 14 59
12   Tommy Ford 8 50 58
13   Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 20 36 56
14   Mattias Rönngren 40 DNS 40
15   Simon Maurberger 2 32 34
16     Justin Murisier 32 DNS 32
17   Fabio Gstrein DNS 29 29
18   Filip Zubčić 6 22 28
19   Alexis Pinturault 5 20 25
  Pavel Trikhichev 15 10 25
21   Luca De Aliprandini DNQ 24 24
  Dominik Raschner 24 DNS 24
  Mathieu Faivre 16 8 24
24   Ryan Cochran-Siegle 22 DNS 22
25   Giovanni Borsotti DNS 18 18
  River Radamus 18 DNS 18
References [5] [6]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNS = Did not start
  • DNQ = Did not qualify
  • Updated at 21 March 2020, after all events.[7]

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. ^ Moran, Mackenzie (9 February 2020). "Parallel event sparks controversy in Chamonix". Ski Racing Premium. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Alta Badia Men PG (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  6. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Chamonix Men PG (FRA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  7. ^ "Official FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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