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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 ...
World Cup speed skiing Simon Billy in Vars, Hautes-Alpes 2019. 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.
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 ...
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 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 British Army medical officer has said she has become the fastest woman to ski alone across Antarctica. Captain Harpreet Chandi, 34, already broke two Guinness World Records for polar exploration ...
He is the son of speedskier Philippe Billy, former world record holder of 243.902 km/h. Billy skied from an early age and was trained by his father, his younger brother Louis Billy is also a speedskier (241.125 km/h.) [1] Billy lives in Vars, Hautes-Alpes where the world's fastest speedski track is located. [2]
In 1995, Hamilton became the first skier to go faster than 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) and he held the world record between 1995 and 1997. He was a three-time world champion between 1998 and 2000; he also medaled in two other years. He also set a world record for inline speed skating at 65 miles per hour (105 km/h). [1] [2] [3]