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2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

The men's overall competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 44 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH) (11 races), Super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (11 races), slalom (SL) (11 races), and Alpine combined (AC) (3 races). The newly introduced Parallel giant slalom event at Alta Badia, Italy—which was included in the giant slalom season standings—was a relatively short Giant slalom course that pitted the men against one another in a modified bracket-reduction format from a field of thirty-two qualifying skiers, eventually whittled down to just four final-round racers in a "large final" (for the championship) and a "small final" (for third).

2016 men's overall World Cup
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27-year-old Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the overall title for the fifth consecutive time, tying two all-time records: most overall World Cup titles by a man (five, tied with Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, and one less than the overall record of six held since 1979 by Annemarie Moser-Pröll), and most consecutive titles (five, also held by Moser-Pröll).[1]

An odd incident threatened to mar the early season as a small, remotely-piloted camera drone, operated by broadcast media to give viewers a taste of the skiers' field of vision, crashed and narrowly missed Hirscher during his second run in the slalom at Madonna di Campiglio just before Christmas.[2] Hirscher nevertheless finished second in the race, but shortly after the incident, the International Ski Federation banned remotely-piloted vehicles from flying over their events as a matter of safety and concern for the welfare of their athletes, staff and viewers.[3]

Through midseason, possession of the overall crystal globe for the season was closely fought between four-time overall champion Hirscher and two-time overall champion Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, with Svindal actually in the lead, but on 23 January, in the legendary Streif downhill on the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbühel, Austria, Svindal fell and suffered a season-ending ligament tear in his right knee.[4] Because of poor visibility and dangerous winds, which already had led the course to be shortened, the downhill produced three serious crashes in just 30 skiers, the minimum number for the race to be deemed official, before it was stopped—but the damage had already been done.[4][5]

After Svindal's departure, Hirscher won the overall crystal globe by almost 500 points over Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway.[1] In addition to Svindal and Kristofferson, two other Norwegians placed in the top 7 in overall points: Kjetil Jansrud and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde.[6]

The finals were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland from 16 to 20 March 2016.

Standings

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# Skier DH
11 races 		SG
8 races 		GS
11 races 		SL
11 races 		AC
3 races 		Tot.
    Marcel Hirscher 0 249 766 780 0 1,795
2    Henrik Kristoffersen 0 0 487 811 0 1,298
3   Alexis Pinturault 0 70 690 220 220 1,200
4    Kjetil Jansrud 432 375 149 40 165 1,161
5    Aksel Lund Svindal 436 310 90 0 80 916
6   Dominik Paris 432 212 0 0 161 805
7    Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 247 415 46 0 48 756
8   Felix Neureuther 0 0 354 389 0 743
9     Carlo Janka 312 259 76 0 90 737
10   Peter Fill 462 226 0 0 48 736
11   Adrien Théaux 370 248 0 0 96 714
12   Victor Muffat-Jeandet 0 12 405 162 130 709
13     Beat Feuz 414 182 0 0 0 596
14   Vincent Kriechmayr 182 298 0 0 75 555
15   Andre Myhrer 0 0 176 367 0 543
16   Hannes Reichelt 296 174 15 0 0 485
17   Fritz Dopfer 0 0 144 339 0 483
18   Romed Baumann 199 164 0 0 88 451
19   Christof Innerhofer 247 184 0 0 18 449
20   Steven Nyman 386 54 0 0 0 440
21   Mathieu Faivre 0 0 423 0 0 423
22   Andrew Weibrecht 149 244 3 0 0 396
23   Thomas Fanara 0 0 374 0 0 374
24   Boštjan Kline 185 172 0 0 15 372
25   Travis Ganong 250 120 0 0 0 370
26   Erik Guay 247 117 0 0 0 364
27   Alexander Khoroshilov 0 0 0 358 0 358
28   Stefano Gross 0 0 0 345 0 345
  •   Leader
  •   2nd place
  •   3rd place
  • Updated at 21 March 2016, after all events[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Zaccardi, Nick (16 March 2016). "Marcel Hirscher clinches record fifth straight World Cup overall title". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  2. ^ Grez, Matias (23 December 2015). "Drone crashes onto piste, misses champion skier by inches". CNN. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  3. ^ Associated Press (23 December 2015). "Ski federation bans drones after camera nearly hits competitor". USA Today. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b Zaccardi, Nick (23 January 2016). "Aksel Lund Svindal crashes hard, tears ACL". NBC Sports. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  5. ^ Willemsen, Eric (23 January 2016). "Skiing: World Cup leader Svindal blows out knee in downhill crash". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  6. ^ Cooper, Thomas (29 January 2016). "Svindal, Jansrud and the Sad, Abrupt End to Norway's Friendly World Cup Rivalry". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Official 2016 FIS men's season standings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
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