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1988–89 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
The 23rd World Cup season began in November 1988 in Austria and concluded in March 1989 in Japan. The overall champions were Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg (his third) and Vreni Schneider of Switzerland (her first). Schneider established the record for victories in a World Cup season, winning a total of 14 races (6 (out of 7) giant slaloms, 7 (out of 7) slaloms, and 1 (of 2) combined), surpassing the record of 13 established in 1978-79 by the great Swedish skier and three-time overall World Cup champion Ingemar Stenmark. Stenmark, who became the primary example of the transition of the World Cup circuit from fully amateur to fully professional during his 16-year career, retired at the end of the season, after notching his all-time record 86th race victory in February. All of Stenmark's victories were either in giant slalom (46) or slalom (40). The break in the schedule in early February was for the 1989 World Championships, held in Vail, Colorado, USA. Calendar Men La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Girardelli
Marc Girardelli (born 18 July 1963) is an Austrian and Luxembourgish former alpine ski racer, a five-time World Cup overall champion who excelled in all five alpine disciplines. Biography Born in Lustenau, Austria, Girardelli started skiing at the age of five and was racing at seven. He enjoyed significant success at junior level, winning local competitions in not only alpine skiing but also ski jumping. He competed for Austria until 1976, then switched to Luxembourg due to disagreements about coaching – the Austrian skiing federation wanted Girardelli to attend a ski boarding school in Schruns, from Lustenau, while his parents preferred for him to stay in his hometown. In 1981, he started to make significant progress with his first podium (top-three finish) in Wengen, Switzerland, and from that moment was in contention for slalom and giant slalom podiums on a regular basis. He achieved his first World Cup victory in Sweden in February 1983, but incurred his first major inju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up the technical events in alpine ski racing. This category separates them from the speed events of Super-G and downhill. The technical events are normally composed of two runs, held on different courses on the same ski run. Course The vertical drop for a GS course must be for men, and for women. The number of gates in this event is 56–70 for men and 46–58 for women. The number of direction changes in a GS course equals 11–15% of the vertical drop of the course in metres, 13–18% for children. As an example, a course with a vertical drop of would have 33–45 direction changes for an adult race. Speed Although giant slalom is not the fastest event in skiing, on average a well-trained racer may reach average speeds of . Equipment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Gardena
Val Gardena (; german: Gröden ; lld, Gherdëina ) is a valley in Northern Italy, in the Dolomites of South Tyrol. It is best known as a tourist skiing, rock climbing, and woodcarving area. Geography The valley's main river is the Derjon, a tributary of the Eisack river. The mountains that surround the valley are formed by dolomite rocks, which confer on them a characteristic appearance. Most of the steep slopes are covered by pine woods. The favoured cultivations are barley, rye, potatoes, flax, buckwheat. The three municipalities in Val Gardena are Urtijëi, Sëlva, and Santa Cristina; they were served by the Val Gardena Railway from 1916 until 1960. Culture Val Gardena is one of five valleys with a majority of Ladin speakers (two of these valleys are in South Tyrol). The form of the Ladin language spoken in this valley is called ''Gardenese'' in Italian, ''Grödnerisch'' in German and ''Gherdëina'' in Ladin. Woodcarving The woodcarving industry has flourished in Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Accola
Paul Accola (born 20 February 1967 in Davos) is a Swiss former Alpine skier. He came in first in the overall World Cup in 1992, and won a total of four medals at the Winter Olympics and World Championships in the combined event. By the end of his career, he won seven world cup victories and was on the podium 26 times, the last time being in 2000. In 2002 Accola suffered a serious ankle injury, breaking both of his talus bones. In February 2005, on his 38th birthday, Accola announced that he would retire as alpine skier after nearly two decades in the sport. He is the sixth Swiss athlete to compete at five Olympics, after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg and equestrian Christine Stückelberger. In 2012, Accola was found not liable by Swiss courts of accidentally running over and killing a child with a riding mower, as he was found to have told the nearby children not to play in the area where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Nilsson
Lars Jonas Nilsson (born 7 March 1963 in Hedemora, Dalarna) is a Swedish former alpine skier. He was born in Hedemora, which is located in Sweden. He competed at three Winter Olympics. He raced in the Alpine Skiing World Cup from 1983 to 1992, obtaining two victories, both in slalom. He won the gold medal in Alpine World Ski Championships The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships is an alpine skiing competition organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). History The inaugural world championships in alpine skiing were held in 1931. During the 1930s, the event was held annua ... of 1985, in the same discipline. World Cup victories References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nilsson, Jonas 1963 births Swedish male alpine skiers People from Hedemora Municipality Living people Olympic alpine skiers of Sweden Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Dalarna County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sestriere
Sestriere (/se'strjɛre/) ( oc, Sestrieras, pms, Ël Sestrier, french: Sestrières) is a ski resort in Piedmont, Italy, a ''comune'' (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is situated in Val Susa, from the French border. Its name derives from Latin: ''ad petram sistrariam'', that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin. Geography Sestriere has 929 inhabitants as of 1 January 2021 and is located on the pass that links Val Chisone and Val Susa, at above mean sea level The village is completely surrounded by mountains, which have been exploited to build one of the biggest ski resorts in Italy. The main mountains around Sestriere are: Monte Fraiteve in the north-east, Monte Sises , Punta Rognosa di Sestriere and Monte Motta in the south-east. Sestriere is divided into several smaller hamlets: Sestriere Colle, on the pass top, Sestriere Borgata, in Val Chisone, Champlas du Col and Champlas Janvier, in Val Susa. History Formerly, the pass belonged to the municipalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Enn
Hans Enn (born 10 May 1958) is an Austrian former alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ... and Olympic medalist. At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid Enn was bronze medalist in the giant slalom."1980 Winter Olympics – Lake Placid, United States – Alpine Skiing" (Retrieved on February 28, 2008) References External links * * 1958 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Nierlich
Rudolf "Rudi" Nierlich (20 February 1966 – 18 May 1991) was an Austrian alpine skier. Born in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut (Upper Austria), he won a total of eight races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, and was three times World Champion (1989 and 1991), in Slalom and giant slalom. Death He died in May 1991 in a traffic collision in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut. World Cup victories World Championship results Europa Cup results Nierlich has won a overall Europa Cup and one specialty standings. *FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup **Overall: 1985–86 FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup, 1986 **Giant slalom: 1986 References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nierlich, Rudolf 1966 births 1991 deaths Austrian male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Road incident deaths in Austria People from Gmunden District Sportspeople from Upper Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Thorens
Val Thorens (), is a ski town located in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie, French Alps at an altitude of . It is located in the commune of Saint-Martin-de-Belleville in the Savoie department. The resort forms part of the Les Trois Vallées ski area which, with over 600 km of piste, is one of the largest linked ski areas in the world. Resort In 1971 the first of three drag lifts was installed, followed in 1972 by the opening of the first ski school. Skiing The resort is usually open from mid-November until early May. The highest ski-able peaks are Pointe du Bouchet (3230 m) and Cime de Caron (3200 m). Many of the slopes in Val Thorens face north and north-west. However, the resort itself faces south. Val Thorens has a total of 68 marked runs, and several terrain parks. The main snow park hosts a stage of the national SFR Slopestyle Tour, and the ski cross arena is frequently visited by the FIS Skier X World Cup. Val Thorens is part of the '' 3 vallées'' ski domain, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Stock
Leonhard Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Career Stock earned his first World Cup points at age 18 in January 1977. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Stock was originally an alternate for the downhill, but his fast training times on the course at Whiteface Mountain earned him a spot on the four-man Austrian team. On race day, he was the ninth racer on the course and posted the fastest time to win the gold medal. Stock could not repeat his surprise win at the Lake Placid Olympics on the World Cup tour until almost a decade later, winning downhill races in 1989, 1990, and 1992. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he just missed a second Olympic medal, finishing fourth in the downhill and eighth in the Super-G at Nakiska. In 1997 he took over his parental (farm)house in Finkenberg and converted it into a hotel. With his brother Hans he also runs a sports and fashion store in that town. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franck Piccard
Franck Piccard (born 17 September 1965) is a French former Alpine skier. A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine skiing World Cup races. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition (the first winter Olympic gold-medal for a French athlete since ski racer Jean-Claude Killy in 1968, who became a three-times gold-medallist) and a bronze medal in the downhill. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the downhill. He also could achieve a bronze-medal in the Super-G-Race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1991. :First excellent success was winning a gold-medal in the downhill race in the FIS Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships 1982 at Auron. First "World Cup Points", he could catch on December 10th, 1983, placed 4th in the Super-G at Val-d’Isère, first win was in the Super-G on March 23rd, 1988, at Beaver Creek. At the begin of his skiing career he did prefer starting in Downhill and Super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schladming
Schladming is a small former mining town in the northwest of the Austrian state of Styria that is now a popular tourist destination. It has become a large winter-sports resort and has held various skiing competitions, including most notably the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1982 and the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013. The shopping area has many cafes and restaurants, and a variety of shops that cater to tourists. Population Recreation Winter sports The local peak for winter sports is the Planai. A ten-seater cable car with a middle station takes tourists up the mountain. The Planai consists of many red and black slopes for competitive skiers, and many blue slopes for beginners, but generally the Planai is an intermediate to expert mountain. The Hochwurzen is the other mountain in Schladming. It has three main red runs off the four-man chair lift and a sledge run. This mountain is better suited to more experienced boarders and skiers. Also, There is a new 8 man c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
