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Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen was in line to win the men's downhill at the Alpine skiing world championships on Sunday after the top-ranked racers completed their runs. Von Allmen beat second ...
The first world championships in alpine skiing were held in 1931. It consisted of downhill and slalom events for men and women. Next year the combined event was added to the program as a "paper" race which used the results of the downhill and slalom.
The 48th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held from 4 to 16 February 2025 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. The location was scheduled to be decided in May 2020 during the 52nd FIS Congress in Pattaya, Thailand, but was cancelled to the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote took place during a video conference on 3 October 2020.
At Bormio (Italy) in the week between Christmas and New Years, the downhill and super-G were both won by first-time World Cup winners: Alexis Monney of Switzerland [15] and Fredrik Møller of Norway, [16] respectively, and the first race after New Years, a slalom in Madonna di Campiglio (Italy) was won by another first-time winner, Albert Popov ...
Shiffrin still carries away from the slopes of Cortina d'Ampezzo a bigger haul than any other woman and a record tally for a U.S. skier of 11 medals from 13 starts in five world championships.
Performing like the boys of winter, however, the St. John’s Pioneers of Shrewsbury, which this season posted a 45-0 record in the Central Mass. Ski League, turned in another fine day on the ...
A resurgent Austrian team charged back to the top in 1988, beginning a long streak of consecutive Nations Cup triumphs. Austrian dominance reached its zenith in the late 1990s and 2000s (decade), when their points total regularly doubled that of the second-place finisher, and was capped in the 1999–2000 and 2003–4 seasons with totals that ...
The first winner for his country is highlighted in plum. [ 2 ] Jean-Claude Killy was the first skier to win races in two seasons (1967 and 1967/1968), while Ingemar Stenmark won races in 13 seasons and set a record for the greatest absolute number of races won in a single season winning 13 races (out of 33 total) in the 1978–79 season.