2023 Men's Overall World Cup
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The men's overall in the 2023 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 38 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (10 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (10 races), and slalom (SL) (10 races). The fifth and sixth disciplines in FIS ski events, parallel (PAR). and Alpine combined (AC), had all events in the 2022–23 season cancelled, either due to the schedule disruption cased by the COVID-19 pandemic (AC) or due to bad weather (PAR).[1] The original calendar contained 43 events,[2] but in addition to the parallel, four downhills were cancelled over the course of the season.[3][4][5]

The season was interrupted by the 2023 World Ski Championships in the linked resorts of Courchevel and Méribel, France, which are located in Les Trois Vallées, from 6–19 February 2023. During the world championships, Norwegian star Atle Lie McGrath, who then was in 11th place overall, fell during the super-G and suffered a ACL tear, which required season-ending surgery.[6]

Season summary

From the very first race of the season, defending champion Marco Odermatt of Switzerland seized the lead in the standings due to his abilities in all disciplines except for slalom. After the first fifteen races, he had built a lead of over 300 points over speed specialist Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway. However, after Odermatt was injured during a downhill at Kitzbühel on 20 January and had to miss the following few races, Kilde was able to draw within 200 points by 25 January.[7] However, Odermatt won the next two races to push his lead back over 300 points.[8]

When Kilde did not enter the two giant slaloms in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia on 11-12 March, Odermatt clinched the season championship due to holding a lead of over 400 points, while the maximum points potentially available to Kilde were only 400.[9] But after winning both races, Odermatt entered the World Cup finals needing just 174 points from his three specialties to surpass Hermann Maier's men's all-time points record of 2,000 in one season, set in the 2000 season and only surpassed so far by two women: Tina Maze in 2013 and Mikaela Shiffrin in 2019 and this year.[9] In his first two races during the finals, Odermatt finished 15th in downhill (16 points) and won the super-G (100 points), leaving him just 58 points short of Maier's record; a finish of third or better in the giant slalom would give Odermatt the record.[10] He then won the giant slalom (by 2.11 seconds!) to set a new Men's World Cup points record of 2,042 points.[11]

The victory also enabled Odermatt to tie the men's record of 13 victories in a season on the World Cup circuit, a record Odermatt now shares with Maier (2001), Ingemar Stenmark (1979), and Marcel Hirscher (2018) -- and behind only two women: Shiffrin (17 wins in 2019; 14 wins this year) and Vreni Schneider (14 wins in 1989).[11]

Finals

The last events of the season took place at the World Cup finals, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 through Sunday, 19 March 2023 in Soldeu, Andorra. Only the top 25 in each specific discipline for the season and the winner of the Junior World Championship in each discipline were eligible to compete in the finals, with the exception that any skier who has scored at least 500 points in the overall classification was eligible to participate in any discipline, regardless of his standing in that discipline for the season.

Standings

# Skier DH
10 races		 SG
8 races		 GS
10 races		 SL
10 races		 Total
 Switzerland  Marco Odermatt 4627408400 2,042
2 Norway  Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 760512680 1,340
3 Norway  Henrik Kristoffersen 00660494 1,154
4 Norway  Lucas Braathen 036372546 954
5 Austria Vincent Kriechmayr 61433540 953
6  Switzerland  Loïc Meillard 0134406337 877
7 Austria Marco Schwarz 64151449199 863
8 France Alexis Pinturault 0253409177 839
9 Austria Manuel Feller 00201345 546
10  Switzerland  Ramon Zenhäusern 000467 467
11 Slovenia Zan Kranjec 004640 464
12 Canada James Crawford 32613060 462
13  Switzerland  Gino Caviezel 01612770 438
14 Italy Mattia Casse 28814300 431
15 Germany Andreas Sander 15626500 421
16 Austria Daniel Hemetsberger 23917500 414
17  Switzerland  Daniel Yule 000401 401
18 Italy Dominik Paris 21017400 384
19 France Johan Clarey 3433100 374
20 Norway  Atle Lie McGrath 045104215 364
21 Norway  Alexander Steen Olsen 0084275 359
22  Switzerland  Stefan Rogentin 13018000 310
Germany Romed Baumann 2446600 310
24  Switzerland  Niels Hintermann 2674100 308
25 Germany Linus Straßer 000306 306
26  Switzerland  Justin Murisier 71176500 297
Croatia Filip Zubcic 0022176 297
28 France Clément Noël 000292 292
29 United States Ryan Cochran-Siegle 14913300 282
30 Austria Raphael Haaser 01411330 274
31 Austria Matthias Mayer 1828600 268
32 France Nils Allegre 8515800 243
33 Norway  Rasmus Windingstad 002390 239
34 Italy Florian Schieder 2221400 236
35 Norway  Timon Haugan 000231 231
36  Switzerland  Beat Feuz 1794200 221
37 Italy Tommaso Sala 000214 214
38 Austria Otmar Striedinger 2001100 211
39 Austria Stefan Brennsteiner 002100 210
40 Norway  Adrian Smiseth Sejersted 1495800 207
41 Italy Filippo Della Vite 001960 196
42 United States Travis Ganong 1781400 192
43 Austria Fabio Gstrein 000190 190
44 Bulgaria Albert Popov 000182 182
45 United Kingdom Dave Ryding 000181 181
46 Germany Alexander Schmid 001780 178
47 Austria Stefan Babinsky 916500 174
48 Italy Alex Vinatzer 006156 162
49 Canada Erik Read 008868 156
50 Canada Jeffrey Read 1913400 153
51 Sweden Kristoffer Jakobsen 000151 151
52  Switzerland  Marc Rochat 000150 150
53 France Cyprien Sarrazin 826160 149
54 Norway  Sebastian Foss-Solevåg 000144 144
Austria Adrian Pertl 000144 144
56 Germany Josef Ferstl 1142400 138
57 United States Jared Goldberg 1102000 130
58 France Adrien Theaux 123600 129
59 Italy Luca De Aliprandini 001240 124
60  Switzerland  Gilles Roulin 793800 117
61 Italy Christof Innerhofer 635300 116
62  Switzerland  Thomas Tumler 001150 115
63 United States River Radamus 019950 114
64 Canada Cameron Alexander 1011100 112
65 Italy Matteo Marsaglia 555300 108
66 Canada Brodie Seger 455900 104
67  Italy Guglielmo Bosca 79400 101
68  Andorra Joan Verdú 001000 100
69 France Matthieu Bailet 544500 99
70 Greece AJ Ginnis 00091 91
Italy Stefano Gross 00091 91
Croatia Samuel Kolega 00091 91
73  Switzerland  Alexis Monney 781000 88
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 19 March 2023, after all 38 events and 5 cancellations[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bentley, Leann (6 November 2022). "Men's and Women's Parallel Events in Lech/Zürs Canceled". US Ski and Snowboard. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. ↑ "FIS Alpine Skiing – Calendar Men" (PDF). fis-ski.com. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ↑ Associated Press (25 October 2022). "Matterhorn Alpine Skiing World Cup downhills canceled". NBC Sports. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Associated Press (10 January 2023). "World Cup ski races cancelled in Germany 2 weeks early due to lack of snow". CBC. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Associated Press (3 March 2023). "World Cup downhill in Aspen halted due to low visibility". AP News. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Bjørnsen Sherlock, Bente (21 February 2023). "Atle Lie McGrath out after surgery". Ski Racing. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  7. ↑ AFP (25 January 2023). "Olympic Champion Odermatt Out Of Schladming Giant Slalom". Boston.com. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Associated Press (29 January 2023). "Swiss skier Odermatt wins super-G for 2nd win in 2 days". AP News. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  9. 1 2 OlympicTalk (11 March 2023). "Marco Odermatt clinches World Cup overall title; can he break points record?". NBC Sports. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  10. ↑ Associated Press (16 March 2023). "Swiss skier Odermatt wins super-G, approaches points record". KSTP. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  11. 1 2 Associated Press (18 March 2023). "Marco Odermatt sets World Cup points record with GS win". ESPN. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  12. ↑ "Official FIS men's season standings". FIS. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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