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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 – Women's Downhill
The Women's downhill competition at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 was held on Sunday, 10 February. In the final event of her international career, Lindsey Vonn of the United States won the bronze medal, a half-second behind repeat champion Ilka Štuhec of Slovenia, and Switzerland's Corinne Suter took the silver. The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting elevation of above sea level. Štuhec's winning time of 61.74 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of . Results The race started at 12:30 CET CET or cet may refer to: Places * Cet, Albania * Cet, standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Cetus * Colchester Town railway station (National Rail code CET), in Colchester, England Arts, entertainment, and media * Comcast En ... ''(UTC+1)''. Due to the starting point was dropped by to the location of the Super-G start, shortening the length by to . References {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Åre Ski Resort
Åre (pronounced like 'Aura') is a ski resort in Jämtland, Sweden, founded in 1909 and owned by SkiStar AB. Åre, short for Årefjällen (''Åre Mountains''), is located in Åre Municipality, just outside and above the village of Åre, approximately 80 km (50 mi.) from the city of Östersund. The ski lift system is on the Åreskutan mountain, with a summit elevation of , which is not lift-served, but is reachable by snowmobile. The lift-served vertical drop is , descending from . The village and ski area are accessible by bus and train, and the nearest airport is Åre Östersund Airport. With a latitude of 63.4° north, the ski area is approximately south of the Arctic Circle. History *1882 – The railway to Åre is finished and officially opened by King Oscar II. *1891 – Åre tourist information centre opens. ”Tourists and spa guests visiting the climatic spa Åre” is the theme of the first advertising campaign. *1892 – The café on the top of Åreskutan ... [...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] |
Alice Merryweather
Alice Merryweather (born October 5, 1996) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States, and competes primarily in the speed events, downhill and super-G. Born and raised in Hingham, Massachusetts, she graduated from Stratton Mountain School in Vermont and plans to attend Dartmouth College Merryweather won the gold medal in the downhill at the World Junior Championships in 2017. She was named to the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team, and was fifteenth in the combined event. She made her first World Cup top ten in January 2019 with an eighth in the downhill at Garmisch Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the ..., Germany. World Cup results Season standings Top twenty results * 2 top tens * 11 top twenty finishes World Championship results Olympic results Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Flury
Jasmine Flury (born 16 September 1993) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill Flury won gold in downhill at the 2023 World Championships. Flury made her World Cup debut at age twenty in January 2014, and her first podium was a victory on home country snow, in a Super-G at St. Moritz in December 2017. She has competed in three World Championships and two Winter Olympics. World Cup results Flury made her World Cup debut at age twenty in a downhill at Altenmarkt in January 2014, but had only one additional start that season, with over twenty on the European Cup circuit. The next season she had eight World Cup starts but went without a top thirty result, and concurrently raced in European Cup events. A hip injury kept her out of the 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romane Miradoli
Romane Miradoli (born 10 March 1994) at the French Olympic Committee website is a French alpine ski racer. Born in Bonneville, , she has competed for France in two |
Kajsa Vickhoff Lie
Kajsa Vickhoff Lie (born 20 June 1998) is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, representing the club Bærums SK. She specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Career Lie made her World Cup debut at age 18 in January 2017, and has competed in two World Championships, in 2019 and 2021. She won gold medals in downhill and super-G at the Junior World Championships at Davos in 2018. Lie was airlifted to hospital after suffering a left leg injury during the women's super-G World Cup race at Val di Fassa, Italy on 28 February 2021. She was thrown off the course after catching an edge and landed awkwardly in the safety nets. In February 2023, she won her first world championships medal, taking bronze in super-G at Méribel, France. Her first World Cup victory came a few weeks later in a downhill at Kvitfjell Kvitfjell ( no, White mountain) is a ski resort in Norway, located in the municipality of Ringebu. Developed for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...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] |
Joana Hählen
Joana Hählen (born 23 January 1992) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G. Born in Belp in the canton of Bern, Hählen made her World Cup debut in November 2013, gained her first podium in February 2019, and has competed in two 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, .... Biography Joana Hählen believed she would reach her first World Cup podium when she finished second in the Crans Montana downhill on February 23, 2019, 49/100ths of a second behind Sofia Goggia, but due to several timing errors during the race, she was finally placed fourth a few days later. In the following season, on January 24, 2020, she finally got her first podium, finishing third in the first run in Bansko behind Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Goggia
Sofia Goggia (; born 15 November 1992) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specialises in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She is a two-time Olympic downhill medalist — gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first one for an Italian woman — and three-time World Cup downhill title winner (2018, 2021, 2022). Career With only four career starts in giant slalom (and no finishes) in her World Cup career, Goggia was named to the Italian women's team for the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria. She capitalized on the opportunity and posted two top ten finishes: fourth in the super-G and seventh in the super combined. Goggia attained her first World Cup podium in November 2016, a third place in giant slalom at Killington. She won the bronze medal in the same event at the World Championships in February. Goggia's first World Cup win came in downhill in March 2017 at Jeongseon, South Korea. She followed it up with a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Fanchini
Nadia Fanchini (born 25 June 1986) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. Born in Lovere, she lives in Val Camonica. Her sisters Elena and Sabrina Fanchini were also members of the Italian World Cup team. Career Fanchini represented Italy at the 2006 Winter Olympics and at four World Championships. She won a bronze medal in the downhill at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, France, and a silver medal in the downhill at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria. In the final World Cup race before the 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 Gret ..., Fanchini injured both knees in a Super-G. She missed the Olympics and the remainder of the 2010 season, as well as the 2011 season. World Cup results Season standings : Race po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Weidle
Kira Weidle (born 24 February 1996) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill World Cup debut in January 2016 and attained her first podium Weidle won the silver medal in the downhill at the 2021 World Championships 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ... in Cortina d'Ampezzo. World Cup results Season standings Race podiums *0 wins *6 podiums – (6 DH); 30 top tens World Championship results Olympic results References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Weidle, Kira 1996 births Living people German female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Germany Sportspeople from Stuttgart Skiers from Baden-Württemberg 21st-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
