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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.
[13] [14] Many film makers release a film early in the ski season, with content recorded in the past season or two. The following list is a chronology of prolific feature production companies or directors with numerous ski films over the indicated time span.
The downhill course is the longest in the world; its length of over 4.4 km (2.7 mi) results in run times of two and a half minutes (about 30–45 seconds longer than standard downhill races); top speeds approach 160 km/h (100 mph) on its Haneggschuss, the highest speeds on the World Cup circuit.
Maria Höfl-Riesch (German pronunciation: [maˈʁiːa ˌhøːfl̩ ˈʁiːʃ] ⓘ; née Riesch, born 24 November 1984) is a former German alpine ski racer. She is a three-time Olympic champion , two-time World champion , an overall World Cup champion and five-time World junior champion .
Fanny Chmelar (German pronunciation: [ˈfani ˈʃmeːlɐʁ] [1]; born 31 October 1985 [2] [3] [4]) is a German former alpine skier. Born in Weilheim in Oberbayern, she appeared in her first FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in the 2004–05 season. In her career, she had one World Cup podium finish, a second place in the slalom at Åre, Sweden in 2009. [5]
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.
Schwechater [ˈʃvɛçaːtɐ] is a 1958 experimental short film by Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka. It is the second entry in his trilogy of metrical films, between Adebar and Arnulf Rainer . Originally commissioned to make an advertisement for Schwechater Bier [ de ] , Kubelka edited footage from the shoot based on a complex set of rules ...
Arnold Lunn was born in Madras, eldest son of three sons and a daughter of Sir Henry Simpson Lunn (1859–1939) and Mary Ethel, née Moore, daughter of a canon. [2] His father was firstly a Methodist minister and later founder of Lunn's Travel agency (that would become Lunn Poly), which encouraged tourism in the Swiss Alps.