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Speed: Year: Location: Note: 1 Simon Billy France 255,500 km/h 2023 Vars: France record 2 Ivan Origone Italy 254,958 km/h 2016 Vars: Italy record 3 Simone Origone Italy 254,05 km/h 2023 Vars: 4 Manuel Kramer Austria: 252,84 km/h 2023 Vars: Austria record 5 Bastien Montès France 251,397 km/h 2016 Vars: 6 Jonathan Moret Switzerland 250,80 km/h ...
The 13th FIS Speed Ski World Cup season began on 26 February 2012, in Pas de la Casa-Grandvalira, Andorra, ... Ivan Origone: 25 Mar 2012: S1: 18 Apr 2012: Verbier: S1:
The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline ( long-track or short-track ), gender and competing nationality. Long-track
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 .
The skaters only utilize the inner lane and the lap distance is accordingly less than the 400 meters of a regular lap skated with one inner curve and one outer curve. For comparison, the fastest known 400m lap was skated by Zhang Hong during a 500m race in Salt Lake City on 20 November 2015, with a lap time of 25.93 seconds and an average speed ...
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)
In 2006, Canadian Cindy Klassen became the only other speed skater, and one of seven Winter Olympians, to win five medals—one gold, two silver, two bronze—at a single edition of the Games. [5] Pechstein, American Bonnie Blair, and Sven Kramer of the Netherlands are the only speed skaters to win gold in the same event three times in a row.
The 2007–08 Speed Skating World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of speed skating.The season began on 9 November 2007 and lasted until 22 February 2008. The World Cup was organised by the ISU, who also run world cups and championships in short track speed skating and figure skating.