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Speed: Year: Location: Note: 1 Valentina Greggio Italy 247,083 km/h 2016 Vars: Italy record 2 Britta Backlund Sweden 244,93 km/h 2023 Vars: Sweden record 3 Sanna Tidstrand Sweden 242,588km/h 2006 Les Arcs: 4 Karine Dubouchet France 242,261 km/h 2002 Les Arcs: France record 5 Tracie Sachs United States 238,570 km/h 2006 Les Arcs: United States ...
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.
He won a silver medal in speed skiing, a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. He is the nephew of champion skiers of the 1960s, Christine and Marielle Goitschel, sisters of his mother Patricia. He achieved a world record for speed skiing, achieving a speed of 250.7 km/h (155.434 mph) at Les Arcs on April 23 ...
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)
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 ...
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]
Mikaela Shiffrin is taking the quest for her 100th career World Cup victory to North America. The American ski star might even get the one win she needs for the milestone in what is like a home ...
He broke the former All American record in 2006 with a speed of 154.06 mph flying past the former record held by John Hembel from Aspen Colorado with a speed of 153.03 mph at Les Arcs France 2006." [ 3 ] On April 19, places him 10th in the world all-time rankings.