The women's giant slalom in the
2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events. The season had been scheduled for nine events, but all of the last three giant slaloms were canceled.
Defending champion
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup ...
from the
United States
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was second in the very tight discipline standings after 5 events 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. Italian skier
Federica Brignone
Federica Brignone (born 14 July 1990) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She competes in all alpine disciplines, with a focus on giant slalom and super-G. Brignone won the World Cup overall title in 2020, becoming the first Italian femal ...
held the discipline lead with three events remaining, but (as described below) none of those events took place.
First, the GS scheduled for
Ofterschwang, Germany was canceled due to lack of snow and a bad forecast. Then the finals, scheduled for Sunday, 22 March in
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...
,
Italy
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, were cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
And finally, the one remaining giant slalom, scheduled in
Ã…re
Åre () is a locality and one of the leading Scandinavian ski resorts situated in Åre Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 3,200 inhabitants in 2018. It is, however, not the seat of the municipality, which is Järpen. 25% of the local eco ...
, Sweden, for which Shiffrin had planned to return, was canceled due to COVID infections being detected among the skiers.
Thus, the current leader in each discipline automatically became the season winner of the crystal globe for that discipline.
Standings
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*DNF1 = Did not finish run 1
*DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2
*DNF2 = Did not finish run 2
*DNS = Did not start
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See also
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G
The women's super-G in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, which produced six different winners from five different countries.
Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was leading the discipline standings ...
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's slalom
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's combined
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's parallel
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World Cup scoring system
References
External links
Alpine Skiingat
FIS website
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Women's giant slalom
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women's giant slalom discipline titles