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2020 men's parallel World Cup
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The men's parallel competition in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup 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]

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 scheduled and 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

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# Skier
23 Dec 2019
Alta Badia

Italy
PG
09 Feb 2020
Chamonix

France
PG 		Total
 Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 29 100 129
2 Norway Rasmus Windingstad 100 3 103
3 Germany Stefan Luitz 80 2 82
4  Switzerland  Thomas Tumler DNQ 80 80
5 Austria Roland Leitinger 60 13 73
Germany Alexander Schmid 13 60 73
7 France Thibaut Favrot 26 40 66
8 Norway Henrik Kristoffersen 36 26 62
9 Norway Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen 50 11 61
10 Slovenia Žan Kranjec 14 45 59
Norway Lucas Braathen 45 14 59
12 United States Tommy Ford 8 50 58
13 Norway Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 20 36 56
14 Sweden Mattias Rönngren 40 DNS 40
15 Italy Simon Maurberger 2 32 34
16  Switzerland  Justin Murisier 32 DNS 32
17 Austria Fabio Gstrein DNS 29 29
18 Croatia Filip Zubčić 6 22 28
19 France Alexis Pinturault 5 20 25
Russia Pavel Trikhichev 15 10 25
21 Italy Luca De Aliprandini DNQ 24 24
Austria Dominik Raschner 24 DNS 24
France Mathieu Faivre 16 8 24
24 United States Ryan Cochran-Siegle 22 DNS 22
25 Italy Giovanni Borsotti DNS 18 18
United States River Radamus 18 DNS 18
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

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References

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