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The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958 were held 1–9 February in Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria. [1]Austrian Toni Sailer, 22, won three gold medals and a silver.The triple gold medalist from the 1956 Winter Olympics successfully defended three of his four world titles.
The highest speed ever measured in a World Cup race was reached at this section in 2013 by Johan Clarey of France at 161.9 km/h (100.6 mph). Top speeds vary from year to year, depending upon snow conditions. The average grade of the downhill race course is 25.3 percent (14.2 degrees).
Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007. Fehrenbach, Heide. Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
14th Alpine World Ski Championships: 6 1958: Badgastein Austria: FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958: 15th Alpine World Ski Championships: 6 1960: Squaw Valley, California United States: 1960 Winter Olympics: 16th Alpine World Ski Championships: 6 1962: Chamonix France: FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962: 17th Alpine World Ski ...
The second speed event, the super-G, was not a World Cup event until December 1982, at the twilight of Klammer's World Cup career. At the end of the 1975 season, despite having won 8 of 9 downhills, he finished third for the overall World Cup title. The final event was a parallel slalom and Klammer lost in the first round.
Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer (17 November 1935 – 24 August 2009) was an Austrian alpine ski racer, considered among the best in the sport. At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. [2] [3] He nearly duplicated the feat at the 1958 World Championships with two golds and a silver. [4]
Karl Schranz (born 18 November 1938) is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria, one of the best of the 1960s and early 1970s.. Born and raised in St. Anton, Tyrol, Schranz had a lengthy ski racing career, from 1957 to 1972.
Jean-Claude Killy (born 30 August 1943) is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer.He dominated the sport in the late 1960s, and was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there.