He and the runner-up, Ding Liren, both qualified for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2021.

Levon Aronian, the winner of the Chess World Cup 2017, advanced to the quarterfinals before being eliminated by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on tiebreaks.

Vachier-Lagrave was eliminated by Radjabov in the semi-finals, but defeated Yu Yangyi to claim 3rd place.

There was only one bid received for the combined FIDE World Cup and Olympiad events, which was done by the Yugra Chess Federation.

This time, though, Carlsen and Caruana both declined their invitations to the World Cup, so the qualifiers are simply the two finalists.