2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall

Alpine ski discipline year standings men's overall World Cup thumb|220px|center|Marcel Hirscher of Austria, season champion 2016 men's World Cup Overall • downhill • super-g giant slalom • slalom • combined Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall 2016 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). 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).https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/03/16/marcel-hirscher-wins-world-cup-overall-title-alpine-skiing/ Nick Zaccardi Marcel Hirscher clinches record fifth straight World Cup overall title NBC Sports 16 March 2016 17 February 2023 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.https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/23/sport/marcel-hirscher-drone-crash/index.html Matias Grez Drone crashes onto piste, misses champion skier by inches CNN 23 December 2015 18 February 2023 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.Ski federation bans drones after camera nearly hits competitor https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2015/12/23/ski-federation-ban-drones-marcel-hirscher/77838818/ Associated Press USA Today 23 December 2015 18 February 2023 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.https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/01/23/aksel-lund-svindal-kitzbuehel-crash-alpine-skiing-world-cup-hahnenkamm/ Nick Zaccardi Aksel Lund Svindal crashes hard, tears ACL NBC Sports 23 January 2016 17 February 2023 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.http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3452895-155/skiing-world-cup-leader-svindal-blows Eric Willemsen Skiing: World Cup leader Svindal blows out knee in downhill crash Salt Lake Tribune 23 January 2016 18 February 2023 After Svindal's departure, Hirscher won the overall crystal globe by almost 500 points over Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway. In addition to Svindal and Kristofferson, two other Norwegians placed in the top 7 in overall points: Kjetil Jansrud and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde.https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2608807-svindal-jansrud-and-the-sad-abrupt-end-to-norways-friendly-world-cup-rivalry Thomas Cooper Svindal, Jansrud and the Sad, Abrupt End to Norway's Friendly World Cup Rivalry Bleacher Report 29 January 2016 17 February 2023 The finals were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland from 16 to 20 March 2016. Standings #SkierDH11 racesSG8 racesGS11 racesSL11 racesAC3 racesTot. 25pxAUT Marcel Hirscher024976678001,7952NOR Henrik Kristoffersen0048781101,2983FRA Alexis Pinturault0706902202201,2004NOR Kjetil Jansrud432375149401651,1615NOR Aksel Lund Svindal436310900809166ITA Dominik Paris432212001618057NOR Aleksander Aamodt Kilde247415460487568GER Felix Neureuther0035438907439 SUI  Carlo Janka3122597609073710ITA Peter Fill462226004873611FRA Adrien Théaux370248009671412FRA Victor Muffat-Jeandet01240516213070913 SUI  Beat Feuz41418200059614AUT Vincent Kriechmayr182298007555515SWE Andre Myhrer00176367054316AUT Hannes Reichelt296174150048517GER Fritz Dopfer00144339048318AUT Romed Baumann199164008845119ITA Christof Innerhofer247184001844920USA Steven Nyman3865400044021FRA Mathieu Faivre004230042322USA Andrew Weibrecht14924430039623FRA Thomas Fanara003740037424SLO Boštjan Kline185172001537225USA Travis Ganong25012000037026CAN Erik Guay24711700036427RUS Alexander Khoroshilov000358035828ITA Stefano Gross0003450345 #ffcf40 Leader #c0c0c0 2nd place #cc9966 3rd place Updated at 21 March 2016, after all eventshttps://www.fis-ski.com/DB/alpine-skiing/cup-standings.html?sectorcode=AL&seasoncode=2016&cupcode=WC&disciplinecode=ALL&gendercode=M&nationcode= Official 2016 FIS men's season standings fis-ski.com 4 February 2023 See also 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's summary rankings 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's downhill 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's super-G 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's giant slalom 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's slalom 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's combined 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's overall References External links Alpine Skiing at FIS website Men's overall Category:FIS Alpine Ski World Cup overall titles