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Alpine Skiing At The 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's Downhill
The Men's Downhill competition of the Sapporo 1972 Olympics was held at Mount Eniwa on Monday, February 7. The defending world champion was Bernhard Russi of Switzerland, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion, and Austria's Karl Schranz led the current season. Schranz was classified as a professional and banned from the Olympics. Russi won the gold medal, teammate Roland Collombin took the silver, and Heini Messner of Austria won the bronze. The starting gate was at an elevation of above sea level, with a vertical drop of . The course length was and Russi's winning run of 111.43 seconds resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . Results The race started at 13:30 JST ''(UTC+9)'' under clear skies, with an air temperature of . : References External links YouTube.com- 1972 Winter Olympics - Men's Downhill - Gold and Bronze medalists' runs - from Japanese television FIS results {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing
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 recreation or for sport, it is typically practiced at ski resorts, which provide such services as ski lifts, artificial snow making, snow grooming, restaurants, and ski patrol. "Off-piste" skiers—those skiing outside ski area boundaries—may employ snowmobiles, helicopters or snowcats to deliver them to the top of a slope. Back-country skiers may use specialized equipment with a free-heel mode, including 'sticky' skins on the bottoms of the skis to stop them sliding backwards during an ascent, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent. Alpine skiing has been an event at the Winter Olympic Games since 1936. A competition corresponding to modern slalom was introduced in Oslo in 1886. Participants and venues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Messner
Heinrich "Heini" Messner (born 1 September 1939) is a retired Austrian alpine skier. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won two bronze medals: in the giant slalom in 1968 and in the downhill in 1972. Career On 5 January 1967 Messner won the first ever World Cup race, a slalom; he had 15 more World Cup podium finishes later in his career. In the 1970s he pioneered the use of short skis in the technical races. Messner retired in 1972 season and for two years trained the Austrian women’s team. He then moved to Steinach am Brenner where he ran a ski school, a boarding house, and a ski rental service. National titles Messner has won five national championships at individual senior Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ... level. * Austria Alpine Ski Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Thöni
Gustav Thöni (; sometimes listed as Gustavo Thoeni; born 28 February 1951) is an Italian retired alpine ski racer. Career Thöni was born in the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, in the hamlet of Trafoi of the Stilfs municipality, which is situated on the northern ramp of the Stelvio Pass. He currently operates a hotel there. Ranked among the greatest Italian skiers ever, Thöni won three Olympic medals and a total of four overall World Cup titles in five years in the early 1970s. The four titles are an achievement he shares with Pirmin Zurbriggen and Hermann Maier, exceeded by Marcel Hirscher's eight and Marc Girardelli's five. Thöni was the dominant skier in the technical events (slalom and giant slalom) in the early 1970s. At Val d'Isère, on December 12, 1968, was his World Cup debut. The 17-year-old placed 40th in the giant slalom (bib 110). His first victory came in the first race of the next season, a giant slalom at Val d'Isère, France, in December 1969. Sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Anzi
Stefano Anzi (born 21 May 1949) is a retired Italian alpine skier who specialized in the downhill event. He competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics and finished in 11th place.Stefano Anzi sports-reference.com Anzi had three podium positions at individual world cup stages: first and third in 1971 and second in 1974. fis-ski.com The twins Anzi and Besson . In the 1970s the legend of two skiers of the '''' (''blue avalanche'') was born, Stefano Anzi and |
Giuliano Besson
Giuliano Besson (born 1 January 1950) is an Italian former alpine skier who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics. The twins Anzi and Besson In the 1970s the legend of the two skiers of the ''valanga azzurra'' (''blue avalanche'') was born, Stefano Anzi and Giuliano Besson who were nicknamed ''i gemelli'' ('' the twins'') because on two occasions they concluded an important downhill race in the same position, on 7 February 1972 at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan both finished in 11th place ex-aequo and on 26 January 1974 both finished in second place still ex-aequo on the legendary Streiff in Kitzbuehl, Austria in a World Cup race. World Cup results Besson boasts one podium in the World Cup. ;Podium Olympic results See also * Stefano Anzi Stefano Anzi (born 21 May 1949) is a retired Italian alpine skier who specialized in the downhill event. He competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics and finished in 11th place. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcello Varallo
Marcello Varallo (born 8 October 1947) is a retired Italian alpine skier. He placed 10th in the downhill at the 1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Euro ... and finished third in the 1973 Alpine Ski World Cup in this discipline.Marcello Varallo sports-reference.com fis-ski.com References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Loidl
Josef Loidl (born 3 June 1946 in Ebensee) is a retired Austrian alpine skier who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe .... References External links sports-reference.com 1946 births Living people Austrian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics {{austria-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cochran (skier)
Robert Bruce "Bob" Cochran, M.D. (born December 11, 1951) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Cochran was a member of the Skiing Cochrans family of Richmond, Vermont. He had one World Cup victory, four podiums, and 21 top ten finishes. His best finish in the World Cup season standings was in 1973: eighth overall and ninth in slalom. Cochran also won the combined event at Kitzbühel, Austria, the first win in that event by an American, although not an official World Cup race at the time. His sole World Cup win was in giant slalom, which he considered his weakest event. That win was the first by an American male in a World Cup giant slalom. It was Cochran's only top ten result in giant slalom, his other twenty were evenly split between downhill and slalom. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Japan, Cochran finished eighth in the downhill and 17th in the giant slalom, but fell in the slalom. At the World Championships, he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Cordin
Karl Cordin (born 3 November 1948) is an Austrian former alpine skier who did only compete in Downhill Races; he competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics, becoming 7th silver medal at FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1970 in downhill. Biography Cording did win three World Cup races: on February 21, 1970, at Jackson Hole, on December 20th, 1970, at Val-d’Isère, and on December 18, 1973, at Zell am See; he did become five-times second and twice third too. He also could achieve the Downhill World Cup in 1969-70. He won the silver medal in the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1970 and became fourth in the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1974; in both races he was overtaken by a racer with a higher number. In 1970, he was in lead (and it looked that he could gain the gold medal) - but Bernhard Russi did win. In 1974, he was on the way to win the bronze medal, but Willi Frommelt Willi Frommelt (born 18 November 1952) is a former Alpine skier from Liechtenstein who won a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Tresch
Walter Tresch (born 4 April 1948) is a former Swiss alpine skier. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a .... Tresch is the owner of a sole proprietorship for trading in wine and sporting goods. A sports promotion foundation in Silenen is named after him. References External links * * 1948 births Living people Swiss male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Olympic alpine skiers for Switzerland {{Switzerland-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Håker
Erik Håker (born 4 March 1952) was the first Norwegian alpine skier to win a World Cup event. He has done that in 1971, and won four more events in 1972–1978. In 1979 he was awarded the Holmenkollen medal. Håker competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ... with the best result of fifth place in the downhill in 1972. sports-reference.com FIS Alpine Ski World Cup victories References External links * * – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Sprecher
Andreas Sprecher (born 8 November 1944) is a Swiss former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and 1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe .... External links sports-reference.com* 1944 births Living people Swiss male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Swiss people {{switzerland-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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