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Alpine Skiing At The 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's Slalom
The men's slalom competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, on February 27, 2010. Giuliano Razzoli of Italy won the gold and Ivica Kostelić of Croatia picked up his second silver medal of these Olympics; André Myhrer of Sweden took the bronze. The last alpine event of the 2010 Olympics was held in challenging weather conditions, which included rain. The start was lowered 66 vertical feet (20 m), the same start as the women's race. More than 40 racers failed to complete the first run, including ten of the first thirty. - 2010 Winter Olympics - results - Men's slalom - accessed 2010-02-27. Results References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Canada at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, north of Vancouver. The ten events were scheduled for 13–27 February; weather delayed the first event, the men's downhill, two days until Monday, 15 February. Medal table Notably absent from the medals in these Olympics were the Austrian men, who had won 8 medals in 2006 and 7 in 2002. France and host Canada were shut out from the podium, as were the German men and the Swiss and Italian women. The U.S. had its best Olympics ever with eight alpine medals, only the fourth nation to achieve that total in a single Olympics (Austria, France, Switzerland). Individually, three men and five women won multiple medals; triple medalists were Bode Miller of the U.S. and Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who both won a medal of each color. The sole double gold medalist was Maria Riesch of Germany. Men's events Women's events Competition schedule , -bgcolor=" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Lizeroux
Julien Lizeroux (born 5 September 1979) is a retired French World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed mainly in slalom, but also in giant slalom and combined. Born in Moûtiers, Savoie, Lizeroux is a member of Douanes-La Plagne. He made his World Cup debut in 2000 and has three World Cup victories, all in slalom. Lizeroux won silver medals in the super combined and the slalom on home snow at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère. He finished 9th in the slalom and 18th in the super combined of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A problematic right knee hampered his performance during the first half of 2011 season, and has sidelined him since January 2011. Surgery in June 2011 caused Lizeroux to miss the 2012 season. He returned for the 2014 season, without much success. The following three seasons (2015–2017) were more successful, with several (one, five and five, respectively) finishes in the top ten. In 2015 he got into world news for a mistake in a slalom race. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Byggmark
Jens Byggmark (born 22 August 1985) is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer who specialised in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. Byggmark was born in Örebro but was raised in Tärnaby. He raced for Tärna IK Fjällvinden, the world's most successful ski club. He made his debut in the European Cup in 2005. Byggmark has Sámi roots on his mother's side. He has two children, a daughter and a son, together with his wife, Michaela Delér. World Cup Byggmark made his World Cup debut in 2005, and has won two slalom events, both during the 2007 season, on successive days at Kitzbühel, Austria. Two days later, he placed second in the slalom at Schladming, Austria. After having struggled for some years with poor results and bad starting positions, Byggmark made a strong comeback during the 2011 season and for two seasons he had a place in the first start group. In September 2013, he suffered a knee injury and missed the 2014 season, including the Olympic Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mermillod-Blondin
Thomas Mermillod-Blondin (born 3 January 1984) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from France. Born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, he primarily competed in super-G, but his best results were in the super combined event: he took five of his six World Cup podiums in combined, with the other coming in super-G. Mermillod-Blondin made his World Cup debut in 2007 and represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2011 World Championships. He made a total of 179 World Cup starts in his career. In February 2019 Mermillod-Blondin announced that he would retire from competition following a combined race in Bansko, Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ... that month. World Cup results Season standings World Cup podiums *6 podiums – (4 SC, 1 K, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilian Albrecht
Kilian Albrecht ( bg, Килиан Албрехт; born 13 April 1973 in Vorarlberg) is an Austrian former alpine skier who represented both Austria and Bulgaria. He competed for Austria at the 2002 Olympics and for Bulgaria at the 2010 Olympics. His best result was a 4th-place finish in the slalom in 2002, missing a medal by only .04 of a second. Albrecht has won two medals, both silvers, on the FIS World Cup. Both have been in slalom. The first was in 2000 at Kitzbuehel, the second in 2002 at Sestriere. Since retiring, Albrecht has gone into sports management, most notably managing slalom World Cup winner, World Champion and Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup .... In 2009, Albrecht was elected chairman of the International Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natko Zrnčić-Dim
Natko Zrnčić-Dim (; born 7 March 1986) is a Croatian alpine ski coach and retired World Cup skier. He won a bronze medal in super combined at the World Championships in 2009 at Val-d'Isère, France, and is a member of SK Medveščak. Born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, Zrnčić-Dim's best World Cup result is second place in a super combined, achieved on 30 January 2011 in Chamonix, France. Compatriot Ivica Kostelić won that race, his seventh of the month, and marked the first time that Croatians finished first and second in a World Cup race. Zrnčić-Dim incurred shoulder injury in a super-G at Beaver Creek in early December 2012, which ended his 2013 season. Through mid-January 2014, he has five World Cup podiums, all in combined events. He is one of rare downhill specialists who was able to qualify into second run of slalom. He has done it three times; all were in Wengen, having best result of 18th place in 2010. In 2019 he announced his retirement from active ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Sasaki
is a Japanese alpine skier. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Sasaki ranked 34th in the giant slalom. He did not finish in the slalom event. His best result in the Alpine Skiing World Cup is from 2003 slalom in Wengen, where he finished in a surprising second place with starting number 65. His other best results are fourth places in Kranjska Gora in 2004 and in Beaver Creek in 2005, fifth in Sestriere 2004 and 2005, and second in Schladming and in Shigakōgen in 2006. In giant slalom, his best result in the World Cup was the 24th place in Sölden in 2004. Sasaki represented Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics participating in slalom and giant slalom, but did not finish in these events. In Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ... Sasaki placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjetil Jansrud
Kjetil Jansrud (born 28 August 1985) is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion. He competed in all alpine disciplines apart from slalom, and his best event was the giant slalom where he has six World Cup podiums and an Olympic silver medal. Since 2012, he had concentrated on the speed events, where all but two of his World Cup victories had come. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won the super-G and placed third in the downhill. At the World Championships in 2019 at Åre, Jansrud won gold in the downhill. Born in Stavanger, Jansrud hails from Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, about Career At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jansrud finished tenth in the combined. He broke his thumb in the Olympic giant slalom which ended his 2006 season. A bulging disc discovered that September kept him out of the entire 2007 season. Jansrud made his first World Cup podium in January 2009 at Adelboden and finished ninth in the super combined in February at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Tissot
Maxime Tissot (born October 2, 1985 in Sallanches) is an alpine skier and soldier from France. He competed for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics France participated at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Medalists Alpine skiing France qualified 22 skiers, most of any nation at the Games. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Gini
Marc Gini (born 8 November 1984 in Castasegna) is a Swiss alpine skier, specializing in slalom and giant slalom. He started his career in 2000, and has competed in World Cup races since 2003. He was Swiss slalom champion in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and additionally also Swiss giant slalom champion in 2006. He won his first World Cup race on 11 November 2007. His sister Sandra Gini Sandra or SANDRA may refer to: People * Sandra (given name) * Sandra (singer) (born 1962), German pop singer * Margaretha Sandra (1629–1674), Dutch soldier * Sandra (orangutan), who won the legal right to be defined as a "non-human person" Pla ... is also a professional alpine skier competing in the World Cup. After a similarly unsuccessful winter in 2014/15, Gini showed an upward trend again in the 2015/16 season. He won two European Cup slaloms and finished third in the discipline rankings. In the 2016/17 World Cup season, he managed to finish in the points three times. On April 7, 2017, he announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattias Hargin
Mattias Hargin, born 7 October 1985 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Stockholm, he competed mainly in slalom, and is the younger brother of Janette Hargin (b. 1977), who also raced for Sweden. Hargin was married to Swedish alpine free-skier Matilda Rapaport, who died in an avalanche in Chile in July 2016. He finished fifth in the slalom at the 2009 World Championships and competed for Sweden at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the slalom, finishing in 14th place. In January 2011, Hargin made a strong comeback in a World Cup slalom in Zagreb to finish third. He was the last qualifier at 30th after the first run, but had the best time in the second run to attain his first World Cup podium. Hargin was runner-up in a World Cup slalom at Val-d'Isère in December 2013. His one and only World Cup win came in January 2015 at Kitzbühel. He announced his retirement from alpine skiing on 12 March 2019. World Cup results Season standings *Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Janyk
Michael Janyk (born March 22, 1982, in Vancouver) is a Canadian retired alpine skier. Janyk appeared for the Canadian team in the slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he finished in 17th place. Janyk has yet to win a World Cup race in his professional career, but has finished second on one occasion, December 3, 2006 in a slalom race in Beaver Creek. He also won the bronze medal in Slalom in February at the 2009 Alpine Skiing World Championship in Val d'Isère. He announced his retirement from the sport in March 2014. Along with team-mate Manuel Osborne-Paradis he established the Mike and Manny Foundation, which organises ski camps for children. His sister Britt Janyk also competes in the alpine skiing World Cup The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France ( ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
