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Alpine Skiing At The 1936 Winter Olympics
At the 1936 Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics, alpine skiing was arranged for the first time in the Olympics, a Alpine skiing combined, combined event for men and women. Both Downhill (ski competition), downhills were run on Kreuzjoch on Friday, 7 February, with the women at 11:00 and the men at noon. The two-run Slalom skiing, slalom races were run on the weekend at Gudiberg with the women's event on Saturday and the men's on Sunday. Medal summary Source: Medal table Course information Source: Participating nations Eight nations had both female and male alpine skiers participating. Austria, Estonia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland only competed with female alpine skiers. A total of 103 alpine skiers (66 men and 37 women) from 26 nations (men from 21 nations and women from 13 nations) competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games: References External links International Olympic Committee results database ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948 to 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in even-numbered non-Olympic years. During this period, the Olympic medalists received an additional medal of the same metal from the International Ski Federation (FIS). The giant slalom was introduced at the 1950 World Championships and at the Olympics in 1952; both programs dropped the combined event, but it returned in 1954 at the World Championships as a "paper" race, using the results of the slalom, giant slalom, and downhill. At the Olympics from 1956 through 1980, World Championship medals were awarded by the FIS in the combined event. It returned as a stand-alone event (one run of downhill, two runs of slalom) at the Olympics in 1988, which also debuted the one-run super-G. The combined event was run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slalom Skiing
Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super-G, super giant slalom and Downhill (ski competition), downhill, necessitating quicker and shorter turns. Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, and at the Olympic Winter Games. History The term slalom comes from the Morgedal/Seljord dialect of Norwegian language, Norwegian word "slalåm": "sla", meaning "slightly inclining hillside", and "låm", meaning "track after skis". The inventors of modern skiing classified their trails according to their difficulty. ''Slalåm'' was a trail used in Telemark by boys and girls not yet able to try themselves on the more challenging runs. ''Ufsilåm'' was a trail with one obstacle (''ufse'') like a jump, a fence, a difficult turn, a gorge, a cliff (often more than high) and more. ''Uvyrdslåm'' was a trail with several obstacle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Winter Olympics Events
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10– 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二å…事件, ''Niniroku Jiken''): Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1936 Winter Olympics
At the 1936 Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics, alpine skiing was arranged for the first time in the Olympics, a Alpine skiing combined, combined event for men and women. Both Downhill (ski competition), downhills were run on Kreuzjoch on Friday, 7 February, with the women at 11:00 and the men at noon. The two-run Slalom skiing, slalom races were run on the weekend at Gudiberg with the women's event on Saturday and the men's on Sunday. Medal summary Source: Medal table Course information Source: Participating nations Eight nations had both female and male alpine skiers participating. Austria, Estonia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland only competed with female alpine skiers. A total of 103 alpine skiers (66 men and 37 women) from 26 nations (men from 21 nations and women from 13 nations) competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games: References External links International Olympic Committee results database ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila Schou Nilsen
Laila Schou Nilsen (18 March 1919 – 30 July 1998) was one of the foremost Norwegian sportspeople of the 20th century, best known as a speed skater, alpine skier, and tennis player. She was one of the pioneers in women's speed skating, both in Norway and internationally, along with two other skaters from the ('Oslo Skating Club'), Undis Blikken and Synnøve Lie. Across her sporting career – which also included handball, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, and motorsport – Nilsen won 101 Norwegian Championship titles, of which 86 were in tennis. Speed skating Nilsen won the last of a series of three unofficial World Championships in speed skating for women that were organised by the at Oslo Frogner stadion in 1935, two weeks before her sixteenth birthday. At the 1937 edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women at the Eisstadion Davos in Davos, Switzerland, she set records in all four distances (500 m, 1,000 m, 3,000 m, and 5,000 m). She also won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käthe Grasegger
Käthe Grasegger, later Deuschl (19 June 1917 – 28 August 2001) was a German alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. She was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Partenkirchen. In 1936 she won the silver medal in the alpine skiing combined event. External links Profile 1917 births 2001 deaths German female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Germany Sportspeople from Garmisch-Partenkirchen Alpine skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics 20th-century German women {{Germany-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christl Cranz
Christl Franziska Antonia Cranz-Borchers (1 July 1914 – 28 September 2004) was a German alpine ski racer. Cranz dominated international competition in the 1930s, winning twelve world championship titles between 1934 and 1939. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she won the combined competition (slalom and downhill). Biography Born in Brussels, Cranz was the older sister of Rudolf Cranz. After the break-out of World War I, Cranz and her family fled from Belgium to Traifelberg near Reutlingen, where Cranz learned to ski. Afterwards the family moved to Grindelwald and Freiburg. Alongside her apprenticeship as trainer and philologist she started a successful ski racing career. In 1934, she won all titles at the German Championship. At the world championship in St. Moritz she won the slalom and the combined competition and was second in downhill (after Swiss Anny Rüegg). She won all titles at the world championships in 1937 (Chamonix) and 1939 (Zakopane). To t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Allais
Émile Allais (25 February 1912 – 17 October 2012) was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered to have been the first great French alpine skier. Allais won the bronze medal in the combined (downhill and slalom), the only alpine medal event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch, Germany. These Olympics were the first to award medals in alpine skiing. The previous year, he had won the silver medal in the downhill and combined at the 1935 world championships. In 1937 he was a triple world champion at Chamonix, France, winning all three events (downhill, slalom, and combined). The following year at Engelberg, Switzerland, he won the combined, and took silver in the downhill and slalom. He created the ''École Française de Ski'' which taught innovative methods of Anton Seelos (who was his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Lantschner
Gustav "Guzzi" Lantschner (12 August 1910 – 19 March 2011) was an Austrian-born German alpine skier turned actor. He competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria and was the younger brother of Hellmut Lantschner. Competing for Austria, he won the downhill world championship in 1932. At the 1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ..., he won the silver medal in the alpine skiing combined event. External links * Gustav Lantschner's profile at databaseolympics.comGustav Lantschner's profile at Internet Movie Database* 1910 births 2011 deaths Alpine skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics Austrian male alpine skiers Austrian centenarians German male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Germany Olympic sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Pfnür
Franz Pfnür (21 November 1908 – 21 September 1996) was a German alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was born in Schellenberg Schellenberg is a municipality in the lowland area of Liechtenstein, on the banks of the Rhine. , it has a population of 1,107 and covers an area of History Early history The area was first settled by Celts, then by Rhaetians. Rome conquered t .... In 1936 he won the gold medal in the alpine skiing combined event. As a reward, Pfnür was later invited to coffee with the Führer Adolf Hitler at his mountain retreat in Obersalzberg. He also joined the SS. References External links Profile 1908 births 1996 deaths German male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Germany Alpine skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics {{Germany-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noon
Noon (or midday) is 12 o'clock in the daytime. It is written as 12 noon, 12:00 m. (for meridiem, literally 12:00 noon), 12 p.m. (for post meridiem, literally "after noon"), 12 pm, or 12:00 (using a 24-hour clock) or 1200 (military time). Solar noon is the time when the Sun appears to contact the local celestial meridian. This is when the Sun reaches its apparent highest point in the sky, at 12 noon apparent solar time and can be observed using a sundial. The local or clock time of solar noon depends on the longitude and date, with Daylight Savings Time tending to place solar noon closer to 1:00pm. Etymology The word ''noon'' is derived from Latin ''nona hora'', the ninth canonical hour of the day, in reference to the Western Christian liturgical term none, one of the seven fixed prayer times in traditional Christian denominations. The Roman and Western European medieval monastic day began at 6:00 a.m. (06:00) at the equinox by modern timekeeping, so the ninth hour star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kreuzjoch
Kreuzjoch (German: ''cross col'') is the name of many summits and several mountain passes, predominantly in the Eastern Alps. Summits: * Hohes Kreuzjoch, 2992 m, in the southern Ötztal Alps in South Tyrol * Kreuzjochkogel, 2746 m, between the Sellrain Valley and the Inntal, Oberinntal valley in the Stubai Alps * Kreuzjoch (Samnaungruppe), 2698 m, near Spiss in the Samnaungruppe * Kreuzjoch (eastern Sarntaler Alpen), 2560 m, near Franzensfeste in the Eisack Valley * Kreuzjoch (Kitzbühel Alps), 2558 m, the highest point of the Kitzbühel Alps * Kreuzjoch (Venet), 2464 m, part of the Venet range in the Ötztal Alps * Kreuzjoch (Verwall), 2395 m, in the Verwall near Schruns in the Montafon * Kreuzjoch (western Sarntaler Alpen), 2383 m, near the Hirzer in the Sarntal Alps * Kreuzjoch (Rastkogelgruppe), 2336 m, above Hippach in the Tuxer Alps * Mittleres Kreuzjoch, 2321 m, above the Fernpass in the Lechtal Alps * Kreuzjoch (Rätikon), 2261 m, at the in the Rätikon * Kreuzjoch (Montecr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
