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The women's slalom in the 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, although there were 9 originally scheduled. Defending champion
Mikaela Shiffrin Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine skier who has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history (men or women) and is considered one of the greatest alp ...
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was leading the discipline standings by 80 points after 5 events when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin immediately left the tour to return home to Colorado, which eventually caused her to miss the remainder of the season. Slovakian skier
Petra Vlhová Petra Vlhová (born 13 June 1995) is a Slovak FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of Slalom skiing, slalom and giant slalom. Vlhová won the World Cup overall title in 2021 a ...
won the next event in
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, Slovenia, to move 20 points ahead of Shiffrin with three events remaining. But all of the final three events were cancelled. First, the slalom scheduled for Ofterschwang, Germany was canceled due to lack of snow and a bad forecast. Then the finals, scheduled for Saturday, 21 March in
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, were cancelled due to the
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. And finally, the one remaining slalom, scheduled in
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, 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 -- in this case, Vlhová -- automatically became the season winner of the crystal globe for that discipline. Vlhová thus won the discipline title for the first time.


Standings

* * * *DNF1 = Did Not Finish run 1 *DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2 *DNF2 = Did Not Finish run 2 *DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2 *DNS = Did not start *


See also

* 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings * 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall * 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's downhill *
2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's super-G The women's super-G in the 2019–20 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2020 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 6 events, which produced six different winners from five countries. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was leading ...
* 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's giant slalom *
2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's combined The Women's Combined in the 2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup involved two events, although four had been scheduled. A combined at Val d'Isère, France on 22 December 2019 was cancelled due to heavy snowfall, which forced the downhill scheduled for th ...
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2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's parallel The women'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 ...
* World Cup scoring system


References


External links


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