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Speed: Date: Location: Ski: S1 Simon Billy France 255,500 km/h March 22, 2023 Vars: Ski: S1 Junior Ivan Origone Italy 250,700 km/h 2006 Les Arcs: Ski: S2 Gregory Meichtry Switzerland 211,020 km/h 2014 Vars: Ski: S2 Junior Jimmy Montès France 204,890 km/h 2006 Les Arcs: Ski: Handisport Michael Milton Australia 213,650 km/h 2006 Les Arcs ...
The FIS World Speed Skiing Championships are a biannual speed skiing competition organized by FIS. A demonstration sport on the occasion of the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville , the World Championships are today the most prestigious event, followed by the World Cup .
A gifted all-around athlete, McKinney is best remembered as a world-class speed skier. In 1978 at Portillo, Chile, McKinney's record-breaking run of 200.222 km/h (124.137 mph) [2] made him the first speed skier to break the 200 km/h barrier. [3] Between 1974 and 1987, McKinney set seven world speed skiing records [4] in competitions around the ...
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)
Super-G was run as a World Cup test event during the 1982 season, with two men's races and a women's race that did not count in the season standings. [1]Approved by the International Ski Federation (FIS) that summer, it was first officially run at the World Cup level in December 1982 at Val-d'Isère, France; the winner was Peter Müller of Switzerland.
The competition was, however, marred by the death of Nicolas Bochatay from Switzerland, who died while free skiing the morning of the finals. Tarja Mulari from Finland achieved a top speed of 219.245 kilometres per hour (136.233 mph), breaking the previous women's world record of 214.723 km/h (133.423 mph).
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From 1980 to 1985 he dominated this discipline and was six times world champion and held the world record; in 1985, he retired. He returned to the sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, in which speed skiing was featured as a demonstration sport. He came in 8th place overall, and set his personal best time of 222.222 km/h.