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Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super giant slalom and downhill, necessitating quicker and shorter turns. Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, and at the Olympic Winter ...
Dave Ryding. David Ryding (born 5 December 1986) is an English World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom. Widely considered to be the greatest British skier of all time, he has competed for Great Britain in four Olympics, seven World Championships, and won the Europa Cup.
The men's slalom in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of ten events, including the discipline final. Due to three prior cancellations in other disciplines, the first men's race of the entire season was the slalom held at Gurgl, Austria on 18 November 2023. The original season schedule called for 13 events, but during the season (as ...
Racing, comprising slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom, combined, and downhill, parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom. Freestyle skiing, incorporating events such as moguls, aerials, halfpipe, and ski cross. Other disciplines administered by the FIS but not usually considered part of alpine are speed skiing and grass skiing.
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie). [1]
In 57 World Cup seasons 1927 races (532 downhills, 245 super-G's, 457 giant slaloms, 538 slaloms, 134 combined, 2 parallel slaloms, 10 city events, 8 parallel giant slaloms and 1 K.O. slalom) for men were held. These events saw 1939 winners, because twelve races (five downhills, four super-G's, one giant slalom, and two slaloms) ended with a ...
Evy Leibfarth compete in kayak cross time trial during 2024 Olympic Team Trials for Canoe/Kayak Slalom and Kayak Cross at the RIVERSPORT Whitewater Center in Oklahoma City, Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Petra Vlhová. Petra Vlhová (born 13 June 1995) is a Slovak World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. Vlhová won the World Cup overall title in 2021 and the gold medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in the slalom event, becoming the first Slovak skier to achieve these feats.