2023 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

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).[1] The original calendar contained 43 events,[2] but in addition to the parallel, four downhills were cancelled over the course of the season.[3][4][5]

2023 Men's Overall World Cup
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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.[6]

Season summary edit

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.[7] However, Odermatt won the next two races to push his lead back over 300 points.[8]

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.[9] 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.[9] 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.[10] He then won the giant slalom (by 2.11 seconds!) to set a new Men's World Cup points record of 2,042 points.[11]

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).[11]

Finals edit

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 edit

# Skier DH
10 races
SG
8 races
GS
10 races
SL
10 races
Total
      Marco Odermatt 462 740 840 0 2,042
2  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 760 512 68 0 1,340
3  Henrik Kristoffersen 0 0 660 494 1,154
4  Lucas Braathen 0 36 372 546 954
5   Vincent Kriechmayr 614 335 4 0 953
6     Loïc Meillard 0 134 406 337 877
7   Marco Schwarz 64 151 449 199 863
8   Alexis Pinturault 0 253 409 177 839
9   Manuel Feller 0 0 201 345 546
10     Ramon Zenhäusern 0 0 0 467 467
11   Zan Kranjec 0 0 464 0 464
12   James Crawford 326 130 6 0 462
13     Gino Caviezel 0 161 277 0 438
14   Mattia Casse 288 143 0 0 431
15   Andreas Sander 156 265 0 0 421
16   Daniel Hemetsberger 239 175 0 0 414
17     Daniel Yule 0 0 0 401 401
18   Dominik Paris 210 174 0 0 384
19   Johan Clarey 343 31 0 0 374
20  Atle Lie McGrath 0 45 104 215 364
21  Alexander Steen Olsen 0 0 84 275 359
22     Stefan Rogentin 130 180 0 0 310
  Romed Baumann 244 66 0 0 310
24     Niels Hintermann 267 41 0 0 308
25   Linus Straßer 0 0 0 306 306
26     Justin Murisier 71 176 50 0 297
  Filip Zubcic 0 0 221 76 297
28   Clément Noël 0 0 0 292 292
29   Ryan Cochran-Siegle 149 133 0 0 282
30   Raphael Haaser 0 141 133 0 274
31   Matthias Mayer 182 86 0 0 268
32   Nils Allegre 85 158 0 0 243
33  Rasmus Windingstad 0 0 239 0 239
34   Florian Schieder 222 14 0 0 236
35  Timon Haugan 0 0 0 231 231
36     Beat Feuz 179 42 0 0 221
37   Tommaso Sala 0 0 0 214 214
38   Otmar Striedinger 200 11 0 0 211
39   Stefan Brennsteiner 0 0 210 0 210
40  Adrian Smiseth Sejersted 149 58 0 0 207
41   Filippo Della Vite 0 0 196 0 196
42   Travis Ganong 178 14 0 0 192
43   Fabio Gstrein 0 0 0 190 190
44   Albert Popov 0 0 0 182 182
45   Dave Ryding 0 0 0 181 181
46   Alexander Schmid 0 0 178 0 178
47   Stefan Babinsky 9 165 0 0 174
48   Alex Vinatzer 0 0 6 156 162
49   Erik Read 0 0 88 68 156
50   Jeffrey Read 19 134 0 0 153
51   Kristoffer Jakobsen 0 0 0 151 151
52     Marc Rochat 0 0 0 150 150
53   Cyprien Sarrazin 82 61 6 0 149
54  Sebastian Foss-Solevåg 0 0 0 144 144
  Adrian Pertl 0 0 0 144 144
56   Josef Ferstl 114 24 0 0 138
57   Jared Goldberg 110 20 0 0 130
58   Adrien Theaux 123 6 0 0 129
59   Luca De Aliprandini 0 0 124 0 124
60     Gilles Roulin 79 38 0 0 117
61   Christof Innerhofer 63 53 0 0 116
62     Thomas Tumler 0 0 115 0 115
63   River Radamus 0 19 95 0 114
64   Cameron Alexander 101 11 0 0 112
65   Matteo Marsaglia 55 53 0 0 108
66   Brodie Seger 45 59 0 0 104
67    Guglielmo Bosca 7 94 0 0 101
68    Joan Verdú 0 0 100 0 100
69   Matthieu Bailet 54 45 0 0 99
70   AJ Ginnis 0 0 0 91 91
  Stefano Gross 0 0 0 91 91
  Samuel Kolega 0 0 0 91 91
73     Alexis Monney 78 10 0 0 88
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2023, after all 38 events and 5 cancellations[12]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bentley, Leann (6 November 2022). "Men's and Women's Parallel Events in Lech/Zürs Canceled". US Ski and Snowboard. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. ^ "FIS Alpine Skiing – Calendar Men" (PDF). fis-ski.com. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ Associated Press (25 October 2022). "Matterhorn Alpine Skiing World Cup downhills canceled". NBC Sports. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  4. ^ Associated Press (10 January 2023). "World Cup ski races cancelled in Germany 2 weeks early due to lack of snow". CBC. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  5. ^ Associated Press (3 March 2023). "World Cup downhill in Aspen halted due to low visibility". AP News. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  6. ^ Bjørnsen Sherlock, Bente (21 February 2023). "Atle Lie McGrath out after surgery". Ski Racing. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  7. ^ AFP (25 January 2023). "Olympic Champion Odermatt Out Of Schladming Giant Slalom". Boston.com. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  8. ^ Associated Press (29 January 2023). "Swiss skier Odermatt wins super-G for 2nd win in 2 days". AP News. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  9. ^ a b OlympicTalk (11 March 2023). "Marco Odermatt clinches World Cup overall title; can he break points record?". NBC Sports. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  10. ^ Associated Press (16 March 2023). "Swiss skier Odermatt wins super-G, approaches points record". KSTP. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  11. ^ a b Associated Press (18 March 2023). "Marco Odermatt sets World Cup points record with GS win". ESPN. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Official FIS men's season standings". FIS. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

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