2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's combined

The Men's combined in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 3 events, all of which were completed before the season was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A major change was made in the discipline this season due to the recent dominance of slalom specialists in the combined over speed racers (downhill/Super G). As was previously the case, the first run continued to be the speed discipline (with Super-G having the preference over downhill). The second run (the slalom) then started in reverse order of finish in the speed run, which allowed the slalom specialists (who tended to be significantly slower in the speed run) to tackle fresh snow as the first down the hill in the slalom run, while the speed specialists had to face the more challenging rutted snow at the end of the day, as the last skiers of the 30 who qualified for the second run. Instead, the second run was changed to start in the same order as the finish of the speed run, so that the leader after the speed run became the first to race on the fresh slalom course.[1][2]

2020 Men's combined World Cup
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In the 2020 season, two of the three combined races were run as a Super-G followed by a slalom (traditionally called an Alpine combined); only the race at Wengen featured a downhill followed by a slalom (traditionally known as a super-combined). Two of the three events (both of the Alpine combineds) were won by Alexis Pinturault of France, the only skier this season who ranked in the top ten in both Super-G and slalom, who thus won the season championship.[3] At this time, combined races were not included in the season finals, which were scheduled in 2020 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (but were not held due to the pandemic).

Standings edit

# Skier
29 Dec 2019
Bormio

 
17 Jan 2020
Wengen

   
01 Mar 2020
Hinterstoder

 
Total
    Alexis Pinturault 100 80 100 280
2   Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 80 32 60 172
3   Matthias Mayer DNF2 100 40 140
  Riccardo Tonetti 50 45 45 140
5     Loïc Meillard 60 50 29 139
6   Victor Muffat-Jeandet 24 60 40 124
7   Kjetil Jansrud 26 36 50 112
8     Mauro Caviezel DNS DNF1 80 80
9   Pavel Trikhichev 36 14 26 76
10   Ryan Cochran-Siegle 45 12 13 70
  Vincent Kriechmayr 22 26 22 70
12     Justin Murisier 29 24 9 62
13   Nils Allègre 40 15 6 61
14   Martin Čater DNF2 40 20 60
15     Gino Caviezel 32 DNS 11 43
16   Bryce Bennett 13 18 10 41
17     Luca Aerni DNF1 20 18 38
  Daniel Danklmaier 14 9 15 38
19     Niels Hintermann 8 29 DNF1 37
20   Marco Schwarz DNS 32 32
21     Gilles Roulin 10 16 5 31
22     Stefan Rogentin 18 11 1 30
23   Dominik Paris 5 22 DNS 27
24   Klemen Kosi 15 4 7 26
25   Stefan Hadalin 11 DNF2 14 25
References [4] [5] [6]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNS = Did not start
  • DNF1 = Did not finish run 1
  • DNF2 = Did not finish run 2
  • Updated at 21 March 2020, after all events.[7]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Updates from the FIS Autumn Meetings". International Ski Federation. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  2. ^ Morgan, Liam (9 October 2019). "Soldeu to host 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup finals". Inside the Games. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  3. ^ Associated Press (1 March 2020). "Pinturault dominates Alpine combined race, wins season title". ABC News. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Bormio Men AC (ITA)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  5. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Wengen Men AC (SUI)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  6. ^ "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Hinterstoder Men (AUT)" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com.
  7. ^ "Official FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 1 April 2021.

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