2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Parallel

The Men's Parallel World Cup 2019/2020 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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Loïc Meillard of Switzerland, season champion.

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 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
# Skier
23 Dec 2019
Alta Badia
09 Feb 2020
Chamonix

 Tot.
   Loïc Meillard 29100 129
2 Rasmus Windingstad 1003 103
3 Stefan Luitz 802 82
4    Thomas Tumler DNQ80 80
5 Roland Leitinger 6013 73
Alexander Schmid 1360 73
7 Thibaut Favrot 2640 66
8 Henrik Kristoffersen 3626 62
9 Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen 5011 61
10 Žan Kranjec 1445 59
Lucas Braathen 4514 59
12 Tommy Ford 850 58
13 Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 2036 56
14 Mattias Rönngren 40DNS 40
15 Simon Maurberger 232 34
16    Justin Murisier 32DNS 32
17 Fabio Gstrein DNS29 29
18 Filip Zubčić 622 28
19 Alexis Pinturault 520 25
Pavel Trikhichev 1510 25
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

References
  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 (ITA)". www.fis-ski.com.
  6. "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Chamonix Men (FRA)". www.fis-ski.com.
  7. "Official FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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