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Downhill Racer is a 1969 American sports drama film starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Camilla Sparv, [4] and was the directorial debut of Michael Ritchie. [5] Written by James Salter, based on the 1963 novel The Downhill Racers by Oakley Hall, the film is about a talented downhill skier who joins the United States Ski Team in Europe to compete in international skiing competitions.
A younger member of the Crazy Canucks (Canada's downhill team) of the early 1980s Brooker won two World Cup downhill races at (Kitzbühel & Aspen) in 1983 finishing ninth in the season's overall downhill standings. Two years later, he won the downhill race in Furano, Japan finishing seventh in the 1985 downhill standings.
Longest downhill race in the World Cup circuit, with a length of 4.270 km (2.65 mi) in 2019; typical World Cup downhill courses for men are two miles (3.2 km) or less. The course's starting elevation is 2,315 m (7,595 ft) above sea level; it descends 1,028 vertical metres (3,373 ft) to the finish at 1,287 m (4,222 ft) in Wengen.
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Race Start Elevation Finish Elevation Vertical Drop Course Length Average Gradient Thu 9-Feb Downhill – men 2,252 m (7,388 ft) 1,412 m (4,633 ft) 840 m (2,756 ft) ...
Dave Irwin (born July 12, 1954) [1] is a former alpine ski racer who represented Canada at two Winter Olympic Games and won a World Cup downhill. He was one of the "Crazy Canucks", a group of Canadian downhill racers who rose to prominence on the World Cup circuit in the late 1970s.
He was the first non-European to win both the Austrian downhill Hahnenkamm at Kitzbühel, [6] [7] and the Swiss race Lauberhorn at Wengen. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] These two victories complemented his 1978 win at Les Houches near Chamonix , France, [ 10 ] in the Arlberg-Kandahar , ski racing's oldest classic event.
His final World Cup race was in the downhill race at Val Gardena on 20 December 1996; he had announced his intention to start the next day in another downhill, but suffered a new knee injury. After failing to start in the following races, he announced his retirement from international competition in January 1997 at age 33.