# 1979–80 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

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.

## 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 | 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 |

### 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 | 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 |

### 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 | 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 |

### 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 | 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 |

### 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 | 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 |

## Women
### Overall

see complete table
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 |

### Downhill

see complete table
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 |

### Giant slalom

see complete table
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 |

### Slalom

see complete table
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 |

### Combined

see complete table
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 |

## Nations Cup
### Overall

| Place | Country | Total | Men | Women |
| 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 |

### Men

| 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 |

### Women

| 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 |