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Speed: Year: Location: Note: 1 Valentina Greggio Italy 247,083 km/h 2016 Vars: Italy record 2 Britta Backlund Sweden 244,93 km/h 2023 Vars: Sweden record 3 Sanna Tidstrand Sweden 242,588km/h 2006 Les Arcs: 4 Karine Dubouchet France 242,261 km/h 2002 Les Arcs: France record 5 Tracie Sachs United States 238,570 km/h 2006 Les Arcs: United States ...
During winters at Squaw Valley, McKinney gained a reputation there for skiing long, expert-level runs at high speed using 225 cm downhill skis. McKinney learned about speed skiing from his friend, Dick Dorworth, [12] who was the first skier to break 105 mph. In speed skiing, the limits were few, so McKinney could ski as fast as he dared. In ...
At the 2014 Sochi Games, he was the assistant alpine skiing coach of the Australian Paralympic Team. [11] Milton holds the open Australian downhill speed skiing record, beating the top recorded speeds by able-bodied skiers. His personal best downhill speed is 213 km/h (132 mph). [3
Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line at as high a speed as possible, as timed over a fixed stretch of ski slope. There are two types of contest: breaking an existing speed record or having the fastest run at a given competition. Speed skiers regularly exceed 200 kilometres per hour (124 mph)
The adventurer, who says she only tried downhill skiing once before and was “terrible”, covered the 1,130km of Antarctic ice in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes.
Ross Anderson (born 1971 [1]) is a FIS World Cup/professional speed skier as well as All American Record Holder speed skier a speed of 154.06 mph. Background [ edit ]
In 1995, Hamilton became the first skier to go faster than 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) and he held the world record between 1995 and 1997. He was a three-time world champion between 1998 and 2000; he also medaled in two other years. He also set a world record for inline speed skating at 65 miles per hour (105 km/h). [1] [2] [3]
1983 Camel World Speed Skiing Championships, Silverton, CO - World Record: 208.092 km / h, Winner; 1984 Ford World Speed Skiing Championships, Les Arcs, France - two world records: Special equipment 208.937 km/h; Series equipment 182.186 km/h, winner; Four world records (1982, 1983 and twice in 1984)