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Slovenia's Andrej Šporn at the 2010 Winter Olympics downhill in a typical downhill body position. Downhill is a form of alpine skiing competition. Whereas the other alpine skiing events (slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom, and combined) emphasize turning and technique, downhill emphasizes "the six components of technique, courage, speed, risk, physical condition and judgement ...
To compete in super combined an athlete must have a point average less than 160, but a point average of less than 80 in downhill. On January 24, 2022, the IOC granted four extra male quotas while the FIS began investigating the legitimacy of some low level qualifying events.
Men's downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2025; Venue: Skicircus Saalbach-Hinterglemm/Leogang: Location: Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria: Dates: 9 February: Competitors: 56 from 21 nations: Winning time: 1:40.68: Medalists
The men's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the finals. Two-time discipline champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway, who failed to repeat last season because he suffered life-threatening injuries on the Lauberhorn downhill course in January 2024, developed a shoulder infection at the surgical site over the summer and needed a ...
The men's downhill in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eight events. The season had been planned with thirteen downhills, but two scheduled downhills on 11/12 November 2023 on the Matterhorn, running from Switzerland into Italy (), were canceled for the second straight year, this time due to heavy snowfall and high winds (unlike the year before, when the cancellation was due ...
The simple sentence "Downhill and slalom races may be organized" was written into the rules - a sentence that was to change skiing in the long term. [15] The first FIS Alpine World Ski Championships were held 19–23 February 1931 in Mürren, Switzerland.
The women's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of eight events, including the final. [1] After the elimination of the two downhills scheduled in November on the "Gran Becca" course on the Matterhorn from the 2025 schedule, the first race of the season in this discipline did not take place on 14 December in Beaver Creek, Colorado, United States.
The Men's combined competition in the 2016 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved three events that combined a one-run speed race (downhill (generally referred to as a "super-combined") or Super-G (generally referred to as an "Alpine combined")) with a one-run slalom. Under the rules in effect at the time, three races in the discipline were ...