1979–80 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

FIS 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	Austria	Austria Switzerland
Nations Cup overall	Austria
Competition
Locations	15	14
Individual	27	28
←1978/79 1980/81→

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.

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, KB – Combined, PS – Parallel slalom (Nations Cup ranking only)^[1]

Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third
318	1	7 December 1979	Val d'Isère	DH 096	Peter Wirnsberger	Herbert Plank	Erik Håker
319	2	8 December 1979		GS 102	Ingemar Stenmark	Bojan Križaj	Hans Enn
320	3	8 December 1979		KB 014	Phil Mahre	Steve Mahre	Michel Vion
321	4	11 December 1979	Madonna di Campiglio	SL 108	Ingemar Stenmark	Bojan Križaj	Paul Frommelt
322	5	12 December 1979		GS 103	Ingemar Stenmark	Jacques Lüthy	Bojan Križaj
323	6	16 December 1979	Val Gardena	DH 097	Peter Müller	Erik Håker	Werner Grissmann
324	7	11 December 1979   16 December 1979	Madonna di Campiglio (SL) Val Gardena (DH)	KB 015	Peter Lüscher	Andreas Wenzel	Anton Steiner
325	8	6 January 1980	Pra-Loup	DH 098	Peter Müller	Herbert Plank	Erik Håker
326	9	8 January 1980	Lenggries	SL 109	Petar Popangelov	Aleksandr Zhirov	Ingemar Stenmark
327	10	12 January 1980	Kitzbühel	DH 099	Ken Read	Harti Weirather	Herbert Plank
328	11	8 January 1980   12 January 1980	Lenggries (SL) Kitzbühel (DH)	KB 016	Andreas Wenzel	Anton Steiner	Phil Mahre
329	12	13 January 1980	Kitzbühel	SL 110	Andreas Wenzel	Christian Neureuther	Jacques Lüthy
330	13	18 January 1980	Wengen	DH 100	Ken Read	Josef Walcher	Peter Wirnsberger
331	14	19 January 1980		DH 101	Peter Müller	Ken Read	Steve Podborski
332	15	20 January 1980		SL 111	Bojan Križaj	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt
333	16	21 January 1980	Adelboden	GS 104	Ingemar Stenmark	Jacques Lüthy	Joël Gaspoz
334	17	27 January 1980	Chamonix	SL 122	Ingemar Stenmark	Bojan Križaj	Christian Orlainsky
1980 Winter Olympics   (14–23 February)
335	18	26 February 1980	Waterville Valley	GS 105	Hans Enn	Andreas Wenzel	Jarle Halsnes
336	19	27 February 1980		SL 113	Ingemar Stenmark	Christian Neureuther	Klaus Heidegger
337	20	1 March 1980	Mt. St. Anne	GS 106	Ingemar Stenmark	Phil Mahre	Bohumir Zeman
338	21	4 March 1980	Lake Louise	DH 102	Herbert Plank	Harti Weirather	Werner Grissmann
339	22	27 January 1980   4 March 1980	Chamonix (SL) Lake Louise (DH)	KB 017	Anton Steiner	Andreas Wenzel	Phil Mahre
340	23	8 March 1980	Oberstaufen	GS 107	Andreas Wenzel	Jacques Lüthy	Ingemar Stenmark
341	24	10 March 1980	Cortina d'Ampezzo	SL 114	Ingemar Stenmark	Aleksandr Zhirov	Christian Orlainsky
342	25	11 March 1980		GS 108	Ingemar Stenmark	Hans Enn	Joël Gaspoz
343	26	13 March 1980	Saalbach	GS 109	Ingemar Stenmark	Joël Gaspoz	Hans Enn
344	27	15 March 1980		SL 115	Ingemar Stenmark	Steve Mahre	Petar Popangelov
Nations Cup		16 March 1980	Saalbach	PS ncr	Anton Steiner	Ingemar Stenmark	Jarle Halsnes

Event key: DH – Downhill, SL – Slalom, GS – Giant slalom, KB – Combined, PS – Parallel slalom (Nations Cup ranking only)^[2]

Race	Season	Date	Place	Type	Winner	Second	Third
299	1	5 December 1979	Val d'Isère	DH 083	Marie-Theres Nadig	Cindy Nelson	Laurie Graham
300	2	6 December 1979		GS 097	Marie-Theres Nadig	Perrine Pelen	Erika Hess
301	3	6 December 1979		KB 014	Marie-Theres Nadig	Hanni Wenzel	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
302	4	8 December 1979	Limone Piemonte	GS 098	Hanni Wenzel	Erika Hess	Fabienne Serrat
303	5	14 December 1979	Piancavallo	DH 084	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Jana Šoltýsová
304	6	8 December 1979   14 December 1979	Limone Piemonte (GS) Piancavallo (DH)	KB 015	Hanni Wenzel	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Fabienne Serrat
305	7	15 December 1979	Piancavallo	SL 107	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani
306	8	19 December 1979	Zell am See	DH 085	Marie-Theres Nadig	Jana Šoltýsová	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
307	9	6 January 1980	Pfronten	DH 086	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Marie-Theres Nadig	Hanni Wenzel
308	10	7 January 1980		DH 087	Marie-Theres Nadig	Cornelia Pröll	Doris de Agostini
309	11	9 January 1980	Berchtesgaden	SL 108	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani	Daniela Zini
310	12	10 January 1980		GS 099	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Claudia Giordani
311	13	15 January 1980	Arosa	DH 088	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel
312	14	9 January 1980   15 January 1980	Berchtesgaden (SL) Arosa (DH)	KB 016	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel	Ingrid Eberle
313	15	16 January 1980	Arosa	GS 100	Hanni Wenzel	Marie-Theres Nadig	Perrine Pelen
314	16	20 January 1980	Bad Gastein	DH 089	Marie-Theres Nadig	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Hanni Wenzel
315	17	21 January 1980		SL 109	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Erika Hess
316	18	21 January 1980		KB 017	Hanni Wenzel	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Cindy Nelson
317	19	23 January 1980	Maribor	SL 110	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
318	20	25 January 1980	St. Gervais	SL 111	Perrine Pelen	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Daniela Zini
319	21	26 January 1980		GS 101	Hanni Wenzel	Perrine Pelen	Marie-Theres Nadig
1980 Winter Olympics (14–23 February)
320	22	28 February 1980	Waterville Valley	GS 102	Hanni Wenzel	Maria Epple	Irene Epple
321	23	29 February 1980		SL 112	Perrine Pelen	Nadezhda Patrikeyeva	Hanni Wenzel
322	24	2 March 1980	Mt. St. Anne	GS 103	Marie-Theres Nadig	Irene Epple	Hanni Wenzel
323	25	8 March 1980	Vysoké Tatry	SL 113	Perrine Pelen	Fabienne Serrat	Tamara McKinney
324	26	9 March 1980		SL 114	Daniela Zini	Hanni Wenzel	Erika Hess
325	27	11 March 1980	Saalbach	SL 115	Claudia Giordani	Christa Kinshofer	Hanni Wenzel
326	28	12 March 1980		GS 104	Irene Epple	Perrine Pelen	Fabienne Serrat
Nations Cup		16 March 1980	Saalbach	PS ncp	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Claudia Giordani	Maria Epple

see complete table

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	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB
1	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	204	23	65	51	65
2	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	200	0	100	100	0
3	Phil Mahre	United States	132	0	41	36	55
4	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	131	0	54	77	0
5	Anton Steiner	Austria	130	14	15	41	60
6	Jacques Lüthy	Switzerland	116	0	71	45	0
7	Hans Enn	Austria	100	0	75	25	0
8	Herbert Plank	Italy	91	80	0	0	11
9	Peter Müller	Switzerland	87	87	0	0	0
	Peter Lüscher	Switzerland	87	0	39	11	37
11	Ken Read	Canada	79	79	0	0	0
12	Steve Mahre	United States	72	0	8	44	20
13	Petar Popangelov	Bulgaria	70	0	6	64	0
14	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	68	0	14	54	0
15	Harti Weirather	Austria	64	64	0	0	0

see complete table

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	Country	Total	1	6	8	10	13	14	21
1	Peter Müller	Switzerland	96	-	25	25	9	12	25	(2)
2	Ken Read	Canada	87	-	9	(2)	25	25	20	8
3	Herbert Plank	Italy	81	20	-	20	15	1	-	25
4	Harti Weirather	Austria	75	11	(1)	12	20	(9)	12	20
5	Erik Håker	Norway	64	15	20	15	7	7	(4)	-
6	Peter Wirnsberger	Austria	63	25	-	5	(3)	15	9	9
7	Josef Walcher	Austria	60	10	10	9	-	20	11	(5)
	Werner Grissmann	Austria	60	12	15	11	-	(5)	7	15
9	Steve Podborski	Canada	35	-	-	-	-	8	15	12
10	Michael Veith	West Germany	28	4	-	6	-	6	5	7

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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	Country	Total	2	5	16	18	20	23	25	26
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	125	25	25	25	-	25	(15)	25	(25)
2	Hans Enn	Austria	87	15	12	-	25	-	(9)	20	15
3	Jacques Lüthy	Switzerland	82	11	20	20	(8)	11	20	(9)	(11)
4	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	71	8	-	6	20	-	25	12	(2)
5	Joël Gaspoz	Switzerland	68	(3)	-	15	(2)	8	10	15	20
6	Bojan Križaj	Yugoslavia	56	20	15	-	-	-	2	10	9
7	Jarle Halsnes	Norway	51	9	7	(1)	15	9	11	-	-
8	Boris Strel	Yugoslavia	50	12	9	7	12	(5)	-	-	10
9	Phil Mahre	United States	43	2	-	-	7	20	6	8	-
10	Bohumír Zeman	Czechoslovakia	42	-	-	9	-	15	8	2	8

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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	Country	Total	4	9	12	15	17	19	24	27
1	Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	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	Bulgaria	64	-	25	-	-	12	12	-	15
5	Aleksandr Zhirov	Soviet Union	57	-	20	-	5	3	9	20	-
6	Christian Orlainsky	Austria	55	-	7	-	9	15	-	15	9
7	Jacques Lüthy	Switzerland	53	10	-	15	10	8	-	(2)	10
8	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	51	11	9	25	-	6	-	-	-
9	Anton Steiner	Austria	49	8	(3)	-	12	11	10	-	8
10	Paul Frommelt	Liechtenstein	45	15	4	-	15	-	-	9	2

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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	Country	Total	3	7	11	22
1	Phil Mahre	United States	67	25	12	15	15
2	Andreas Wenzel	Liechtenstein	65	-	20	25	20
3	Anton Steiner	Austria	60	-	15	20	25
4	Peter Lüscher	Switzerland	37	-	25	12	-
5	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Spain	27	9	10	8	-
6	Michel Vion	France	24	15	9	-	-
7	Valeri Tsyganov	Soviet Union	22	11	11	-	-
8	Steve Mahre	United States	20	20	-	-	-
9	Andy Mill	United States	19	6	6	7	-
10	Bill Taylor	United States	17	7	-	-	10

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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	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB
1	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	311	56	100	85	70
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	259	85	37	72	65
3	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	221	100	85	11	25
4	Perrine Pelen	France	192	0	80	100	12
5	Irene Epple	West Germany	141	43	72	5	21
6	Fabienne Serrat	France	122	0	49	48	25
7	Erika Hess	Switzerland	111	0	59	52	0
8	Claudia Giordani	Italy	107	0	39	68	0
9	Daniela Zini	Italy	99	0	32	67	0
10	Cindy Nelson	United States	94	53	3	1	37
11	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	79	0	42	37	0
12	Heidi Preuss	United States	78	42	3	4	29
13	Jana Šoltýsová	Czechoslovakia	72	51	0	0	21
14	Tamara McKinney	United States	65	0	24	41	0
15	Regine Mösenlechner	West Germany	60	0	22	38	0

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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	Country	Total	1	5	8	9	10	13	16
1	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	125	25	25	25	(20)	25	25	(25)
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	100	(11)	20	15	25	(12)	20	20
3	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	66	10	11	(9)	15	(10)	15	15
4	Cindy Nelson	United States	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	United States	48	12	-	8	-	6	10	12
8	Doris de Agostini	Switzerland	47	-	-	5	7	15	12	8
9	Evi Mittermaier	West Germany	42	6	8	10	9	9	-	-
10	Laurie Graham	Canada	38	15	9	6	-	-	3	5

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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	Country	Total	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	Switzerland	95	25	-	-	20	15	10	25	-
	Perrine Pelen	France	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	Switzerland	71	15	20	12	12	(11)	12	(12)	(2)
6	Fabienne Serrat	France	55	9	15	-	6	-	(6)	10	15
7	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	44	10	8	-	9	7	-	-	10
	Claudia Giordani	Italy	44	5	10	15	-	6	-	-	8
9	Christa Kinshofer	West Germany	42	12	-	-	10	-	-	8	12
10	Daniela Zini	Italy	37	8	5	-	7	8	-	-	9

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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	Country	Total	7	11	17	19	20	23	25	26	27
1	Perrine Pelen	France	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	Austria	83	25	11	12	15	20	-	(7)	-	(4)
4	Daniela Zini	Italy	78	(5)	15	11	(8)	15	-	(9)	25	12
5	Claudia Giordani	Italy	75	15	20	7	-	8	-	-	(7)	25
6	Erika Hess	Switzerland	62	-	12	15	10	-	-	-	15	10
7	Fabienne Serrat	France	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	United States	41	-	-	9	7	-	-	15	10	-
	Lea Sölkner	Austria	41	9	-	8	-	6	(1)	11	-	7

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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	Country	Total	3	6	15	18
1	Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein	90	20	25	20	25
2	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	Austria	80	15	20	25	20
3	Cindy Nelson	United States	37	11	-	11	15
4	Heidi Preuss	United States	29	6	-	12	11
5	Torill Fjeldstad	Norway	26	7	12	-	7
6	Marie-Theres Nadig	Switzerland	25	25	-	-	-
	Fabienne Serrat	France	25	10	15	-	-
8	Heidi Wiesler	West Germany	22	4	8	-	10
9	Ingrid Eberle	Austria	21	-	6	15	-
	Irene Epple	West Germany	21	9	-	-	12
	Jana Šoltýsová	Czechoslovakia	21	5	11	-	5

Place	Country	Total	Men	Ladies
1	Austria	1417	820	597
2	Switzerland	1102	505	597
3	Liechtenstein	781	257	524
4	United States	715	304	411
5	Italy	671	268	403
6	West Germany	643	167	476
7	France	553	42	511
8	Sweden	398	383	15
9	Canada	274	194	80
10	Yugoslavia	257	252	5
11	Norway	209	173	36
12	Czechoslovakia	186	53	133
13	Soviet Union	173	130	43
14	Bulgaria	70	70	0
15	Spain	27	27	0
16	Japan	13	13	0
17	Belgium	10	6	4
18	Australia	8	8	0
19	Luxembourg	7	3	4
20	New Zealand	1	0	1
	Poland	1	0	1

Place	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB	Racers	Wins
1	Austria	820	380	204	176	60	16	3
2	Switzerland	505	162	224	74	45	11	4
3	Sweden	383	6	184	185	8	5	11
4	United States	304	17	54	86	147	9	1
5	Italy	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	Canada	194	162	0	0	32	8	2
9	Norway	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	Bulgaria	70	0	6	64	0	1	1
13	Czechoslovakia	53	0	42	11	0	1	0
14	France	42	1	17	0	24	3	0
15	Spain	27	0	0	0	27	1	0
16	Japan	13	3	0	10	0	2	0
17	Australia	8	0	0	0	8	1	0
18	Belgium	6	0	0	0	6	2	0
19	Luxembourg	3	0	3	0	0	1	0

Place	Country	Total	DH	GS	SL	KB	Racers	Wins
1	Austria	597	172	97	200	128	16	3
	Switzerland	597	280	200	89	28	11	9
3	Liechtenstein	524	85	192	157	90	3	9
4	France	511	26	188	245	52	9	4
5	West Germany	476	130	190	105	51	10	1
6	United States	411	146	75	100	90	11	0
7	Italy	403	5	122	276	0	8	2
8	Czechoslovakia	133	68	10	21	34	4	0
9	Canada	80	45	11	0	24	3	0
10	Soviet Union	43	0	0	43	0	1	0
11	Norway	36	2	8	0	2	1	0
12	Sweden	15	0	13	2	0	1	0
13	Yugoslavia	5	0	0	5	0	1	0
14	Luxembourg	4	4	0	0	0	1	0
	Belgium	4	4	0	0	0	1	0
16	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
	Poland	1	0	0	1	0	1	0

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