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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 – Women's Downhill ...
The Women's downhill competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on Sunday, 12 February 2017. Slovenia's Ilka Štuhec won the gold medal, Stephanie Venier of Austria took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Lindsey Vonn of the United States. The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Štuhec's winning time of 92.85 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of . Results The race started at 11:15 CET ''(UTC+1)''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 - Women's downhill Women's downhill 2017 in Swiss women's sport FIS FIS or fis may refer to: Science and technology * '' Fis'', an ''E. Coli'' gene * Fis phenomenon, a phenomenon in linguistics * F♯ (musical note) * Flight information service, an air traffic control service * Frame Information Structure, a Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piz Nair
Piz Nair () is a mountain of the Albula Alps in Switzerland, overlooking St. Moritz in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden. The peak is easily accessible from the village with a funicular and a Aerial lift, cable car; the upper station unloads below the summit. Below the summit to the east is the Corviglia ski area. The mountain hosted the Alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics, alpine skiing events for the 1948 Winter Olympics in neighboring St. Moritz. pp. 6, 21. It also hosted the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, World Championships in FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1934, 1934, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1974, 1974, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003, 2003, and FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017, 2017. Gall ...
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Tina Weirather
Christina "Tina" Weirather (born 24 May 1989) is a retired Liechtensteiner World Cup alpine ski racer. She won a bronze medal in Super-G for Liechtenstein at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Racing career Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October 2005 and had nine victories and 41 podiums through her retirement in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Weirather competed in two events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and finished 33rd in the super-G, but did not finish in the downhill. She had qualified to ski in four events at the 2010 Winter Olympics: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and the combined. Just weeks before the Olympics on 23 January, while competing in a World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Weirather suffered another anterior cruciate ligament injury to her right knee and missed the Olympics, as well as the following World Cup season of 2011. Following years of training alongside her compatriots on the Liechtenstein Alpine S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Schnarf
Johanna "Hanna" Schnarf (born 16 September 1984) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. She focuses on the speed events of super-G and downhill and also the combined. Biography Born in Brixen, South Tyrol, Schnarf made her World Cup debut at age 20 in December 2004. She competed for Italy at the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, and finished fourth in the super-G, missing the bronze medal by 0.11 seconds, and was eighth in the combined. Schnarf has also raced in five world championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ..., with two top tens in the combined. World Cup results Season standings Race podiums * * 2 podiums – (1 DH, 1 SG) World Championship results Olympic results References External links * * – ' {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ester Ledecká
Ester Ledecká (, born 23 March 1995) is a Czech snowboarder and alpine skier. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Ledecká won gold medals in the super-G in alpine skiing and in the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding, becoming the first person to not only compete in the Winter Olympics using two different types of equipment (skis and snowboard) but further to win two gold medals and do so at the same Winter Olympics. She was the second woman to win Olympic gold in two separate disciplines but the first to do so at the same Winter Olympics. She was the first Czech to win the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding at the FIS Snowboard World Cup. Early life Ester Ledecká was born in Prague, to mother Zuzana, a figure skater and father Janek Ledecký, a well-known musician in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She comes from a sporting family: her grandfather is former ice hockey player Jan Klapáč, who was a seven-time World Championship and two-time Olympic medalli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnhild Mowinckel
Ragnhild Mowinckel (born 12 September 1992) is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, representing the club SK Rival. Career Born in Molde, Møre og Romsdal, Mowinckel won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in 2012 in the giant slalom and super combined as well as bronze in super-G. Earlier that season in January, she made her World Cup debut in a slalom race at Zagreb. Mowinckel collected her first World Cup points with a 25th place in giant slalom in Schladming in March. At St. Moritz in December 2012, she improved to 16th place in the super combined and 19th in the super-G. Two months later at the World Championships, she finished 17th in the super combined, 27th in the downhill and 21st in the giant slalom. Mowinckel had her breakthrough in the 2018 season, taking her first podiums: third place in Super-G in Val d'Isère and runner-up in giant slalom in Kronplatz. At the Winter Olympics in Korea, Mowinckel surprisingly won two silver medals in Giant sla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verena Stuffer
Verena Stuffer (born 23 June 1984 in Bozen, Italy) is a South Tyrolean former alpine skier from Italy. Career She competed for Italy at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. She also made a total of 148 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup starts and competed at the 2009, 2011 and 2017 World Championships. She retired at the end of the 2017-18 season, making her final World Cup start in a super-G at Crans-Montana Crans-Montana is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Chermignon, Mollens, Montana and Randogne merged to form the new municipality of Crans-Montana. ... in March 2018. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuffer, Verena 1984 births Living people Olympic alpine skiers of Italy Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Italian female alpine skiers Sportspeople from Bolzano Alpine skiers of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri 20th-century Italian wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Suter
Corinne Suter (born 28 September 1994) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Career Suter made her World Cup debut at age 17 in November 2011, and won season titles in downhill and super-G in 2020. She won the silver in downhill and bronze in Super G at the World Championships and the gold medal in the downhill at both the 2021 World Championships and the 2022 Winter Olympics followed by a bronze in the downhill at the 2023 World Championships. World Cup results Season titles * 2 titles – (1 Super-G, 1 Downhill Downhill may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Downhill'' (1927 film), a British film by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Downhill'' (2014 film), a British comedy directed by James Rouse * ''Downhill'' (2016 film), a Chilean thriller directed by Patrici ...) Season standings : Race podiums *5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG) *24 podiums – (16 DH, 8 SG) World Championship results Olympic results References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Kling
Kajsa Britta Kling (born 25 December 1988) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Sweden. Born in Åre, Kling competed in all five alpine disciplines. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she finished 26th in the giant slalom. On 28 December 2010, Kling crashed during a giant slalom race in Semmering, Austria, which ended her 2011 season. On 14 December 2013, Kling attained her first World Cup podium, placing second in a Super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in .... Ahead of the 2017/18 season, it was announced that Kling would take a break from World Cup racing because of depression. Kling set no target for a return at the time. In August 2018, Kling announced her decision not to return to the World Cup and retire from active comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Schmidhofer
Nicole "Nici" Schmidhofer (born 15 March 1989) is an Austrian former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer. She specializes in the Downhill (ski competition), downhill and super-G events. Career Born in Friesach, Friesach, Carinthia, Schmidhofer made her World Cup debut in March 2006–07 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2007. She competed for Austria at the 2010 Winter Olympics, but did not finish in the super-G, which was her only event at the Olympics. Three years later, Schmidhofer finished in 11th place in the super-G at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013, 2013 World Championships in Planai, Schladming. At the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017, 2017 World Championships, she became a gold medalist in super-G. Her breakout World Cup season was in 2018–19 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2019, with three wins and three additional podiums; she won the season title in downhill and was runner-up in super-G. In March 2019, she participated in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breezy Johnson
Breezy Noble Johnson (born January 19, 1996) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team. She competes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Born in Jackson, Wyoming, Johnson grew up in nearby Victor, Idaho, and made her World Cup debut in December 2015. In her first World Cup season in 2017, she finished eighteenth in the downhill standings. At the World Cup finals in March at Aspen, Johnson crashed in the downhill and suffered a tibial plateau fracture to her left leg. Johnson quickly recovered from this injury and in the 2018 season she finished eleventh in the downhill standings and competed in the Winter Olympics, finishing seventh in the downhill and fourteenth in the super-G. While training in Chile in September 2018, Johnson partially tore her right anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and missed the After returning to snow, she tore her left posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in her left kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Fanchini
Elena Fanchini (30 April 1985 – 8 February 2023) was an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Val Camonica, she focused on the speed events of downhill and super-G. Her younger sisters Nadia and Sabrina also raced on the Italian team. Biography Fanchini won two World Cup races in downhill 9 years apart and won a silver medal at the 2005 world championships. She represented Italy at three Winter Olympics and six World Championships. Illness and death On 12 January 2018, Fanchini announced that she would not compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang in order to undergo cancer treatment. That November, she was preparing to return to the World Cup; during training in the United States at Copper Mountain, Colorado, she fell and suffered a fracture of a finger of the hand and a distortion-bruising trauma to the left knee, with fracture of the proximal fibula. The injury forced her to return to Italy and miss the 2019 season. On 22 April 2020, sisters Elena and Nad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
