1979–80 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

Alpine Ski World Cup 1979/80
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Andreas Wenzel	Hanni Wenzel
Downhill	Peter Müller	Marie-Theres Nadig
Giant slalom	Ingemar Stenmark	Hanni Wenzel
Slalom	Ingemar Stenmark	Perrine Pelen
Combined	Phil Mahre	Hanni Wenzel
Nations Cup	Österreich	Österreich Schweiz
Nations Cup overall	Österreich
Competition
Standorte	15	14
Individual	27	28

The 14th World Cup season began in December 1979 in France and concluded in March 1980 in Austria.

Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein edged out Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden for the men's overall title. Wenzel's older sister, Hanni Wenzel, won the women's overall title for the second time, making them the first sibling combination to both win the overall World Cup title (as of 2017, joined only by Janica and Ivica Kostelić from Croatia) and the only one to win in the same year.

The World Cup race scoring system was revised again, the third different system used in less than a year. The new system was a "Top 15" points system (ranging from 25 points for first, 20 for second, 15 for third, 12 for fourth, and 1 point less for each subsequent position down to 1 point for 15th). This system remained in effect through 1991. The season championship for the "Combined" discipline also returned this year, for the first time since 1976.

A break in the schedule in February was for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, U.S.A. This was the final time that the Winter Olympics also served as the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships; the World Championships would become a separate competition held in odd-numbered years beginning in 1985.

Calendar

Key

DH	downhill
GS	giant slalom
SL	slalom
K	traditional combined

Men

Race	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third
1	7 December 1979	Val d'Isère	DH	Peter Wirnsberger	Herbert Plank	Erik Håker
2	8 December 1979		GS	Ingemar Stenmark	Bojan Križaj	Hans Enn
3	8 December 1979		K	Phil Mahre	Steve Mahre	Michel Vion
4	11 December 1979	Madonna di Campiglio	SL	Ingemar Stenmark	Bojan Križaj	Paul Frommelt
5	12 December 1979		GS	Ingemar Stenmark	Jacques Lüthy	Bojan Križaj
6	16 December 1979	Val Gardena	DH	Peter Müller	Erik Håker	Werner Grissmann
7	16 December 1979		K	Peter Lüscher	Andreas Wenzel	Anton Steiner
8	6 January 1980	Pra-Loup	DH	Peter Müller	Herbert Plank	Erik Håker
9	8 January 1980	Lenggries	SL	Petar Popangelov	Aleksandr Zhirov	Ingemar Stenmark
10	12 January 1980	Kitzbühel	DH	Ken Read	Harti Weirather	Herbert Plank
11	12 January 1980		K	Andreas Wenzel	Anton Steiner	Phil Mahre
12	13 January 1980		SL	Andreas Wenzel	Christian Neureuther	Jacques Lüthy
13	18 January 1980	Wengen	DH	Ken Read	Josef Walcher	Peter Wirnsberger
14	19 January 1980		DH	Peter Müller	Ken Read	Steve Podborski
15	20 January 1980		SL	Bojan Križaj	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt
16	21 January 1980	Adelboden	GS	Ingemar Stenmark	Jacques Lüthy	Joël Gaspoz
17	27 January 1980	Chamonix	SL	Ingemar Stenmark	Bojan Križaj	Christian Orlainsky
1980 Winter Olympics   (14–23 February)
18	26 February 1980	Waterville Valley	GS	Hans Enn	Andreas Wenzel	Jarle Halsnes
19	27 February 1980		SL	Ingemar Stenmark	Christian Neureuther	Klaus Heidegger
20	1 March 1980	Mt. St. Anne	GS	Ingemar Stenmark	Phil Mahre	Bohumir Zeman
21	4 March 1980	Lake Louise	DH	Herbert Plank	Harti Weirather	Werner Grissmann
22	4 March 1980		K	Anton Steiner	Andreas Wenzel	Phil Mahre
23	8 March 1980	Oberstaufen	GS	Andreas Wenzel	Jacques Lüthy	Ingemar Stenmark
24	10 March 1980	Cortina d'Ampezzo	SL	Ingemar Stenmark	Aleksandr Zhirov	Christian Orlainsky
25	11 March 1980		GS	Ingemar Stenmark	Hans Enn	Joël Gaspoz
26	13 March 1980	Saalbach	GS	Ingemar Stenmark	Joël Gaspoz	Hans Enn
27	15 March 1980		SL	Ingemar Stenmark	Steve Mahre	Petar Popangelov

Ladies

Race	Date	Venue	Event	Winner	Second	Third
1	5 December 1979	Val d'Isère	DH	Marie-Theres Nadig	Cindy Nelson	Laurie Graham
2	6 December 1979		GS	Marie-Theres Nadig	Perrine Pelen	Erika Hess
3	6 December 1979		K	Marie-Theres Nadig	Hanni Wenzel	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
4	8 December 1979	Limone Piemonte	GS	Hanni Wenzel	Erika Hess	Fabienne Serrat
5	14 December 1979	Piancavallo	DH	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Jana Šoltýsová
6	14 December 1979		K	Hanni Wenzel	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Fabienne Serrat
7	15 December 1979		SL	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani
8	19 December 1979	Zell am See	DH	Marie-Theres Nadig	Jana Šoltýsová	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
9	6 January 1980	Pfronten	DH	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Marie-Theres Nadig	Hanni Wenzel
10	7 January 1980		DH	Marie-Theres Nadig	Cornelia Pröll	Doris de Agostini
11	9 January 1980	Berchtesgaden	SL	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani	Daniela Zini
12	10 January 1980		GS	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani
13	15 January 1980	Arosa	DH	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel
14	16 January 1980		GS	Hanni Wenzel	Marie-Theres Nadig	Perrine Pelen
15	16 January 1980		K	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel	Ingrid Eberle
16	20 January 1980	Bad Gastein	DH	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel
17	21 January 1980		SL	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Erika Hess
18	21 January 1980		K	Hanni Wenzel	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Cindy Nelson
19	23 January 1980	Maribor	SL	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
20	25 January 1980	St. Gervais	SL	Perrine Pelen	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Daniela Zini
21	26 January 1980		GS	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Marie-Theres Nadig
1980 Winter Olympics   (14–23 February)
22	28 February 1980	Waterville Valley	GS	Hanni Wenzel	Maria Epple	Irene Epple
23	29 February 1980		SL	Perrine Pelen	Nadezhda Patrikeyeva	Hanni Wenzel
24	2 March 1980	Mt. St. Anne	GS	Marie-Theres Nadig	Irene Epple	Hanni Wenzel
25	8 March 1980	Vysoké Tatry	SL	Perrine Pelen	Fabienne Serrat	Tamara McKinney
26	9 March 1980		SL	Daniela Zini	Hanni Wenzel	Erika Hess
27	11 March 1980	Saalbach	SL	Claudia Giordani	Christa Kinshofer	Hanni Wenzel
28	12 March 1980		GS	Irene Epple	Perrine Pelen	Fabienne Serrat

Men

Overall

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In Men's Overall World Cup 1979/80 the best four downhills, best four giant slaloms, best four slaloms and best three combined count. 27 racers had a point deduction. Ingemar Stenmark had 128 points deduction and won 11 races. Andreas Wenzel was able to collect points in all disciplines by winning three events and had only 8 points deduction.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined
1	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	204	23	65	51	65
2	Ingemar Stenmark	Schweden	200	0	100	100	0
3	Phil Mahre	Vereinigte Staaten	132	0	41	36	55
4	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	131	0	54	77	0
5	Anton Steiner	Österreich	130	14	15	41	60
6	Jacques Lüthy	Schweiz	116	0	71	45	0
7	Hans Enn	Österreich	100	0	75	25	0
8	Herbert Plank	Italien	91	80	0	0	11
9	Peter Müller	Schweiz	87	87	0	0	0
	Peter Lüscher	Schweiz	87	0	39	11	37
11	Ken Read	Kanada	79	79	0	0	0
12	Steve Mahre	Vereinigte Staaten	72	0	8	44	20
13	Petar Popangelov	Bulgarien	70	0	6	64	0
14	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	68	0	14	54	0
15	Harti Weirather	Österreich	64	64	0	0	0

Downhill

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In Men's Downhill World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	1	6	8	10	13	14	21
1	Peter Müller	Schweiz	96	-	25	25	9	12	25	(2)
2	Ken Read	Kanada	87	-	9	(2)	25	25	20	8
3	Herbert Plank	Italien	81	20	-	20	15	1	-	25
4	Harti Weirather	Österreich	75	11	(1)	12	20	(9)	12	20
5	Erik Håker	Norwegen	64	15	20	15	7	7	(4)	-
6	Peter Wirnsberger	Österreich	63	25	-	5	(3)	15	9	9
7	Josef Walcher	Österreich	60	10	10	9	-	20	11	(5)
	Werner Grissmann	Österreich	60	12	15	11	-	(5)	7	15
9	Steve Podborski	Kanada	35	-	-	-	-	8	15	12
10	Michael Veith	West Germany	28	4	-	6	-	6	5	7

Giant Slalom

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In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Eight racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points. He won his fifth Giant Slalom World Cup (third in a row).

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	2	5	16	18	20	23	25	26
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Schweden	125	25	25	25	-	25	(15)	25	(25)
2	Hans Enn	Österreich	87	15	12	-	25	-	(9)	20	15
3	Jacques Lüthy	Schweiz	82	11	20	20	(8)	11	20	(9)	(11)
4	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	71	8	-	6	20	-	25	12	(2)
5	Joël Gaspoz	Schweiz	68	(3)	-	15	(2)	8	10	15	20
6	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	56	20	15	-	-	-	2	10	9
7	Jarle Halsnes	Norwegen	51	9	7	(1)	15	9	11	-	-
8	Boris Strel	Yugoslavia	50	12	9	7	12	(5)	-	-	10
9	Phil Mahre	Vereinigte Staaten	43	2	-	-	7	20	6	8	-
10	Bohumír Zeman	Czechoslovakia	42	-	-	9	-	15	8	2	8

Slalom

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In Men's Slalom World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points. He won his sixth Slalom World Cup in a row!

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	4	9	12	15	17	19	24	27
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Schweden	125	25	(15)	(3)	(20)	25	25	25	25
2	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	88	20	(8)	12	25	20	11	-	(11)
3	Christian Neureuther	West Germany	69	(6)	(1)	20	7	-	20	10	12
4	Petar Popangelov	Bulgarien	64	-	25	-	-	12	12	-	15
5	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	57	-	20	-	5	3	9	20	-
6	Christian Orlainsky	Österreich	55	-	7	-	9	15	-	15	9
7	Jacques Lüthy	Schweiz	53	10	-	15	10	8	-	(2)	10
8	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	51	11	9	25	-	6	-	-	-
9	Anton Steiner	Österreich	49	8	(3)	-	12	11	10	-	8
10	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	45	15	4	-	15	-	-	9	2

Combined

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After the season 1975/76 this was the second time, that a Combined World Cup was awarded. All four results count.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	3	7	11	22
1	Phil Mahre	Vereinigte Staaten	67	25	12	15	15
2	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	65	-	20	25	20
3	Anton Steiner	Österreich	60	-	15	20	25
4	Peter Lüscher	Schweiz	37	-	25	12	-
5	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spanien	27	9	10	8	-
6	Michel Vion	Frankreich	24	15	9	-	-
7	Valeri Tsyganov	Soviet Union	22	11	11	-	-
8	Steve Mahre	Vereinigte Staaten	20	20	-	-	-
9	Andy Mill	Vereinigte Staaten	19	6	6	7	-
10	Bill Taylor	Vereinigte Staaten	17	7	-	-	10

Ladies

Overall

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In Women's Overall World Cup 1979/80 the best four downhills, best four giant slaloms, best four slaloms and best three combined count. 23 racers had a point deduction. Hanni Wenzel had a total deduction of 158 points. She won nine competitions and was unable to score points only in one event! (The first slalom at Vysoké Tatry.)

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined
1	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	311	56	100	85	70
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Österreich	259	85	37	72	65
3	Marie-Theres Nadig	Schweiz	221	100	85	11	25
4	Perrine Pelen	Frankreich	192	0	80	100	12
5	Irene Epple	West Germany	141	43	72	5	21
6	Fabienne Serrat	Frankreich	122	0	49	48	25
7	Erika Hess	Schweiz	111	0	59	52	0
8	Claudia Giordani	Italien	107	0	39	68	0
9	Daniela Zini	Italien	99	0	32	67	0
10	Cindy Nelson	Vereinigte Staaten	94	53	3	1	37
11	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	79	0	42	37	0
12	Heidi Preuss	Vereinigte Staaten	78	42	3	4	29
13	Jana Šoltýsová	Czechoslovakia	72	51	0	0	21
14	Tamara McKinney	Vereinigte Staaten	65	0	24	41	0
15	Regine Mösenlechner	West Germany	60	0	22	38	0

Downhill

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In Women's Downhill World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Marie-Theres Nadig won 6 races out of 7 and won the World Cup with maximum points.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	1	5	8	9	10	13	16
1	Marie-Theres Nadig	Schweiz	125	25	25	25	(20)	25	25	(25)
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Österreich	100	(11)	20	15	25	(12)	20	20
3	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	66	10	11	(9)	15	(10)	15	15
4	Cindy Nelson	Vereinigte Staaten	59	20	(4)	12	10	-	6	11
5	Jana Šoltýsová	Czechoslovakia	58	9	15	20	(5)	7	(5)	7
6	Irene Epple	West Germany	51	(2)	10	11	12	8	(7)	10
7	Heidi Preuss	Vereinigte Staaten	48	12	-	8	-	6	10	12
8	Doris de Agostini	Schweiz	47	-	-	5	7	15	12	8
9	Evi Mittermaier	West Germany	42	6	8	10	9	9	-	-
10	Laurie Graham	Kanada	38	15	9	6	-	-	3	5

Giant Slalom

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In Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Six racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Hanni Wenzel won five races in a row. She won the World Cup with maximum points.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	2	4	12	14	21	22	24	28
1	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	125	(11)	25	25	25	25	25	(15)	(11)
2	Marie-Theres Nadig	Schweiz	95	25	-	-	20	15	10	25	-
	Perrine Pelen	Frankreich	95	20	(11)	20	15	20	(8)	(11)	20
4	Irene Epple	West Germany	83	(2)	-	(9)	11	12	15	20	25
5	Erika Hess	Schweiz	71	15	20	12	12	(11)	12	(12)	(2)
6	Fabienne Serrat	Frankreich	55	9	15	-	6	-	(6)	10	15
7	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Österreich	44	10	8	-	9	7	-	-	10
	Claudia Giordani	Italien	44	5	10	15	-	6	-	-	8
9	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	42	12	-	-	10	-	-	8	12
10	Daniela Zini	Italien	37	8	5	-	7	8	-	-	9

Slalom

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In Women's Slalom World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. 8 racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	7	11	17	19	20	23	25	26	27
1	Perrine Pelen	Frankreich	120	20	25	(20)	(20)	25	25	25	(11)	-
2	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	100	(12)	(8)	25	25	(12)	15	-	20	15
3	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Österreich	83	25	11	12	15	20	-	(7)	-	(4)
4	Daniela Zini	Italien	78	(5)	15	11	(8)	15	-	(9)	25	12
5	Claudia Giordani	Italien	75	15	20	7	-	8	-	-	(7)	25
6	Erika Hess	Schweiz	62	-	12	15	10	-	-	-	15	10
7	Fabienne Serrat	Frankreich	56	(6)	10	-	9	9	8	20	-	(6)
8	Regine Mösenlechner	West Germany	44	8	-	10	-	10	6	10	-	-
9	Nadezhda Patrikeyeva	Soviet Union	43	-	-	-	11	-	20	-	12	-
10	Tamara McKinney	Vereinigte Staaten	41	-	-	9	7	-	-	15	10	-
	Lea Sölkner	Österreich	41	9	-	8	-	6	(1)	11	-	7

Combined

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After the season 1975/76 this was the second time, that a Combined World Cup was awarded. All four results count.

Place	Name	Land	Total Points	3	6	15	18
1	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	90	20	25	20	25
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Österreich	80	15	20	25	20
3	Cindy Nelson	Vereinigte Staaten	37	11	-	11	15
4	Heidi Preuss	Vereinigte Staaten	29	6	-	12	11
5	Torill Fjeldstad	Norwegen	26	7	12	-	7
6	Marie-Theres Nadig	Schweiz	25	25	-	-	-
	Fabienne Serrat	Frankreich	25	10	15	-	-
8	Heidi Wiesler	West Germany	22	4	8	-	10
9	Ingrid Eberle	Österreich	21	-	6	15	-
	Irene Epple	West Germany	21	9	-	-	12
	Jana Šoltýsová	Czechoslovakia	21	5	11	-	5

Nationscup

Overall

Place	Land	Total Points	Men	Women
1	Österreich	1417	820	597
2	Schweiz	1102	505	597
3	Liechtenstein	781	257	524
4	Vereinigte Staaten	715	304	411
5	Italien	671	268	403
6	West Germany	643	167	476
7	Frankreich	553	42	511
8	Schweden	398	383	15
9	Kanada	274	194	80
10	Yugoslavia	257	252	5
11	Norwegen	209	173	36
12	Czechoslovakia	186	53	133
13	Soviet Union	173	130	43
14	Bulgarien	70	70	0
15	Spanien	27	27	0
16	Japan	13	13	0
17	Belgien	10	6	4
18	Australien	8	8	0
19	Luxemburg	7	3	4
20	Neuseeland	1	0	1
	Polen	1	0	1

Men

Place	Land	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Österreich	820	380	204	176	60	16	3
2	Schweiz	505	162	224	74	45	11	4
3	Schweden	383	6	184	185	8	5	11
4	Vereinigte Staaten	304	17	54	86	147	9	1
5	Italien	268	85	51	109	23	11	1
6	Liechtenstein	257	23	73	96	65	2	3
7	Yugoslavia	252	0	138	114	0	4	1
8	Kanada	194	162	0	0	32	8	2
9	Norwegen	173	71	75	15	12	7	0
10	West Germany	167	42	23	92	10	7	0
11	Soviet Union	130	19	14	75	22	3	0
12	Bulgarien	70	0	6	64	0	1	1
13	Czechoslovakia	53	0	42	11	0	1	0
14	Frankreich	42	1	17	0	24	3	0
15	Spanien	27	0	0	0	27	1	0
16	Japan	13	3	0	10	0	2	0
17	Australien	8	0	0	0	8	1	0
18	Belgien	6	0	0	0	6	2	0
19	Luxemburg	3	0	3	0	0	1	0

Ladies

Place	Land	Total Points	Downhill	Giant	Slalom	Combined	Racers	Wins
1	Österreich	597	172	97	200	128	16	3
	Schweiz	597	280	200	89	28	11	9
3	Liechtenstein	524	85	192	157	90	3	9
4	Frankreich	511	26	188	245	52	9	4
5	West Germany	476	130	190	105	51	10	1
6	Vereinigte Staaten	411	146	75	100	90	11	0
7	Italien	403	5	122	276	0	8	2
8	Czechoslovakia	133	68	10	21	34	4	0
9	Kanada	80	45	11	0	24	3	0
10	Soviet Union	43	0	0	43	0	1	0
11	Norwegen	36	2	8	0	2	1	0
12	Schweden	15	0	13	2	0	1	0
13	Yugoslavia	5	0	0	5	0	1	0
14	Luxemburg	4	4	0	0	0	1	0
	Belgien	4	4	0	0	0	1	0
16	Neuseeland	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
	Polen	1	0	0	1	0	1	0

External links

• FIS-ski.com - World Cup standings - 1980