2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Parallel

The Women'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 Alpine 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 Women's Parallel World Cup
Previous: 2019 Next: 2021
Petra Vlhová of Slovakia, 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 impossible, and the first women's parallel giant slalom race suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative—17 of 20 winners came from the same course.[4]

Ultimately, only two parallel events, the first a parallel slalom (PS) and the second a parallel giant slalom (PG), were held in the 2019–20 season. Slovakian skier Petra Vlhová won the first event and also won the first-ever discipline championship for women 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
15 Dec 2019
St. Moritz

  
PS
19 Jan 2020
Sestriere


PG		 Tot.
Petra Vlhová 10013 113
2 Clara Direz DNS100 100
3 Federica Brignone 4050 90
4 Anna Swenn-Larsson 80DNS 80
Elisa Mörzinger DNS80 80
6 Marta Bassino 1860 78
7 Kristin Lysdahl 2640 66
8 Franziska Gritsch 60DNS 60
9 Meta Hrovat 508 58
10 Sofia Goggia 1045 55
11 Laurence St. Germain 45DNS 45
12    Aline Danioth 2216 38
13    Wendy Holdener 1126 37
14 Nina Haver-Løseth 36DNS 36
Thea Louise Stjernesund DNS36 36
16 Sara Hector 1222 34
17 Ana Bucik 32DNS 32
Tina Robnik DNS32 32
19 Nina O'Brien 724 31
20 Estelle Alphand 29DNS 29
Mikaela Shiffrin DNS29 29
References [5][6]
  •   Winner
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • DNS = Did Not Start
  • Updated at 22 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. OlympicTalk (19 January 2020). "Mikaela Shiffrin among favorites eliminated early in parallel giant slalom". NBC Sports. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. "Audi FIS Ski World Cup St. Moritz (SUI) Ladies". www.fis-ski.com.
  6. "Audi FIS Ski World Cup Sestriere (ITA) Ladies". www.fis-ski.com.
  7. "Official FIS 2020 women's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
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