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Speed skiing is performed in two principal categories : Speed One (S1), the best class, performed with specific speed skiing equipment S2, the second class, performed with standard alpine skiing equipment (also called Production then Speed Downhil (SDH))
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.
During winters at Squaw Valley, McKinney gained a reputation there for skiing long, expert-level runs at high speed using 225 cm downhill skis. McKinney learned about speed skiing from his friend, Dick Dorworth, [12] who was the first skier to break 105 mph. In speed skiing, the limits were few, so McKinney could ski as fast as he dared.
speed skiing: Ross Anderson (born 1971 [1]) is a FIS World Cup/professional speed skier as well as All American Record Holder speed skier a speed of 154.06 mph.
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 ...
Speed skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics.The venue was in Les Arcs, about 60 km from the host city, Albertville. Michael Prufer, a 31-year-old medical doctor from Savoie, improved his own 1988 world record by 5.558 km/h.
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