2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Overall

The Women's Overall World Cup 2019/2020 involved 30 events in 6 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), Alpine combined (AC), and parallel (PAR). Three-time defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States had established a significant lead when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season.[1] After her departure, the two skiers closest to her in the overall standings, Federica Brignone of Italy and Petra Vlhová of Slovakia, competed in every event remaining in the season, regardless of the discipline, in an attempt to pass Shiffrin.

2020 Women's Overall World Cup
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Federica Brignone of Italy, season champion.

Brignone grabbed the lead when she won the Alpine combined race in Crans-Montana on 23 February and Vlhová, who had been second-fastest in the Super-G leg, straddled a gate in the slalom and didn't score any points.[2] After just one more race six days later, the season was terminated; none of the final ten events were held due to a combination of bad weather (for the first three) and the COVID-19 pandemic for the remainder.[3] As a result, Brignone became the first Italian woman to ever win the women's overall World Cup championship and the crystal globe that comes with it.[4]

Standings

# Skier DH
8 races
SG
6 races
GS
6 races
SL
6 races
AC
2 races
 PAR 
2 races
Tot.
Federica Brignone 3203414072020090 1378
2 Mikaela Shiffrin 256186314440029 1225
3 Petra Vlhová 1641193334600113 1189
4    Corinne Suter 4773600000 837
5 Marta Bassino 20616430906078 817
6    Wendy Holdener 2411123426012537 791
7    Lara Gut-Behrami 288209990020 616
8    Michelle Gisin 9892142209500 591
9 Viktoria Rebensburg 211180160005 556
10 Ester Ledecká 32281001000 503
11 Sofia Goggia 162180820055 479
12 Nina Ortlieb 23319100480 479
13 Nicole Schmidhofer 2282170000 445
14 Stephanie Venier 2332050000 438
15 Elena Curtoni 24614300450 434
16 Katharina Liensberger 00108276017 401
17 Romane Miradoli 15313830360 330
18 Anna Swenn-Larsson 000235080 315
19 Alice Robinson 00300073 310
20 Mina Fürst Holtmann 0021284010 306
21    Joana Hählen 1671300000 297
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2020, after all events[5]

See also

References

  1. Meyer, John (3 February 2020). "Jeff Shiffrin, father of Colorado skier Mikaela Shiffrin, dies". Denver Post. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  2. Associated Press (23 February 2020). "Brignone tops World Cup overall standings with combined win". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. Wiegand, Jenny (13 March 2020). "Coronavirus Brings Alpine World Cup Season to Abrupt End". Ski. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. "Official FIS women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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