The men's super-G in the 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved six events, as the last two scheduled Super-Gs were canceled. With three events to go, 2016 discipline champion

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (born 21 September 1992) is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer. He competes in four events, with a main focus on super-G and downhill.Hinterstoder Hinterstoder is a municipality in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems (district), Kirchdorf an der Krems in Upper Austria, Austria. The village is located close on the border to the federal state Styria and 600 m above sea level. Hinterstoder is ...

, Austria, Kilde crashed and failed to finish, allowing the top two finishers in the race—Swiss skier

Mauro Caviezel Mauro Caviezel (born 18 August 1988) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed for Switzerland in two Winter Olympics and three World Championships; he won a bronze medal in the combined event in 2017 at St. Moritz. Through December 20 ...

(who had been in second and finished second) and local native

Vincent Kriechmayr Vincent Kriechmayr (born 1 October 1991) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of super-G and downhill. Kriechmayr is the 2021 world champion in both speed events, super-G and downhill. Career Born in ...

(who had been in fifth and won)—to both pass Kilde with two races still to go in the season. Caviezel held a narrow three-point lead over Kriechmayr, with Kilde 29 points back and the other two still in close pursuit. However, the next-to-last Super-G of the season at

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, Kilde's home turf, was cancelled due to bad weather, and then the finals were also cancelled due to the

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, thus handing the season title to Caviezel by the three-point margin . . . without the expected showdown.

Standings

* * * *DNF = Did not finish *DNS = Did not start *

References

External links

Alpine Skiing
at FIS website {{DEFAULTSORT:2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup - Men's super-G Men's super-G FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's super-G discipline titles

Standings

See also

References

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