2021 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

2021 men's overall World Cup
Previous: 2020 Next: 2022

The men's overall in the 2021 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 35 events in 5 disciplines: downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and parallel. The sixth discipline, Alpine combined, had all three of its events in the 2020–21 season cancelled. The tentative season schedule contained 43 events (plus two team parallel events, including one at the season finals), but the final schedule cut the season back to 38 events (and one team parallel event at the season finals). The continuing danger of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the three Alpine combineds (Bormio, Wengen, Bansko) to be canceled in order to keep the speed skiers and the technical skiers separated during the season; additionally, two of the three parallels (Alta Badia, Chamonix) and the second team parallel (Lech/Zürs) were canceled so that other events could take their place and reduce travel. Ultimately, only three of those final 38 races were canceled -- two downhills and a Super-G -- and two of those were canceled by snowstorms during World Cup finals week, as discussed below.

In the next-to-last event during the season finals, French skier Alexis Pinturault clinched the overall season championship and the crystal globe that goes with it.

In addition to the disruption resulting from the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the season was interrupted by the 2021 World Ski Championships, which were held from 8–21 February in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

The last four events of the season were scheduled to take place at the final, Wednesday, 17 March through Sunday, 21 March in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship are eligible to compete in the final, with the exception that athletes who have scored at least 500 points in the overall classification are eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of standing in that discipline for the season. However, on 17 March, the downhill final had to be cancelled after three days of heavy snowfall. On 18 March, the Super-G final was also cancelled, eliminating events in which runner-up Marco Odermatt of Switzerland had a perceived edge over Pinturault. When Pinturault won the giant slalom held on 20 March, he gained an insurmountable lead over Odermatt.

Standings

# Skier DH
7 races 		SG
6 races 		GS
10 races 		SL
11 races 		 PAR 
1 race 		Total
Alexis Pinturault 0 96 700 364 100 1,260
2    Marco Odermatt 126 318 649 0 0 1,093
3 Marco Schwarz 0 0 149 665 0 814
4    Loïc Meillard 0 85 393 327 0 805
5 Filip Zubčić 0 0 606 132 26 764
6   Henrik Kristoffersen 0 0 236 406 80 722
7 Matthias Mayer 418 276 6 0 0 700
8 Vincent Kriechmayr 267 401 7 0 0 675
9    Beat Feuz 486 121 0 0 0 607
10 Manuel Feller 0 0 107 488 0 595
11   Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 190 172 180 0 18 560
12 Clément Noël 0 0 1 553 0 554
13    Ramon Zenhäusern 0 0 0 503 0 503
14   Sebastian Foss-Solevåg 0 0 0 431 0 431
15 Dominik Paris 338 88 0 0 0 426
16 Mathieu Faivre 0 0 378 0 26 404
17 Victor Muffat-Jeandet 0 0 62 310 0 372
18 Linus Straßer 0 0 0 347 2 349
19 Johan Clarey 272 63 0 0 0 335
20 Andreas Sander 161 169 0 0 0 330
21    Gino Caviezel 0 64 215 0 40 319
22    Mauro Caviezel 82 225 0 0 0 307
Ryan Cochran-Siegle 136 132 39 0 0 307
24 Romed Baumann 196 103 0 0 0 299
25 Max Franz 186 90 0 0 0 276
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2021, after all events

See also

References

  1. ^ "Provisional World Cup calendar for men" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Official World Cup calendar for men" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  3. ^ AFP (20 March 2021). "Pinturault marks 30th birthday in style with overall ski title". MSN. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  4. ^ Associated Press (17 March 2021). "Goggia, Feuz win World Cup downhill titles after races cancelled". CBC. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  5. ^ Associated Press (18 March 2021). "More World Cup races canceled, good for Vlhova, Pinturault". Associated Press. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  6. ^ Staff (20 March 2021). "Pinturault celebrates 30th birthday with World Cup overall, giant slalom titles". CBC. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Official FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 18 March 2021.