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1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom
Men's slalom World Cup 1978/1979 Final point standings In men's slalom World Cup 1978/79 the best 5 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won his fifth Slalom World Cup in a row. References fis-ski.com {{DEFAULTSORT:1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup - Men's slalom World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ... FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's slalom discipline titles ... [...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 the 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), et cetera. *''Uvyrdslåm'' was a trail with sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Gruber (alpine Skier)
Franz Gruber (born 8 November 1959) is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics. He was born in Kirchdorf an der Krems. In 1983 he won his only world cup slalom in Kranjska Gora Kranjska Gora (; ) is a town in northwestern Slovenia, on the Sava Dolinka River in the Upper Carniola region, close to the Austrian and Italy, Italian borders. It is the seat of the Municipality of Kranjska Gora. The tripoint between Austria, It ... and finished ninth in the 1983 slalom world cup. One year later he finished third in the 1984 slalom world cup. In 1984 he finished fourth in the Olympic slalom event. He also competed in the giant slalom competition but did not finish the race. External links * 1959 births Living people Austrian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics People from Kirchdorf an der Krems Skiers from Upper Austria 20th-century Austrian sportsmen {{Austria-alpine-skiing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stig Strand
Stig Strand (born 25 August 1956) is a Swedish former alpine skier and a sports commentator on alpine skiing.Dagens Nyheter He is known for being sports commentator for SVT during many years after his career, and a few years on , but ended TV commenting in 2016. /ref> He has also worked as a political advisor for the |
Bjørn Gefle
Bjorn, Bjorne (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less often a surname. The name means "bear" (the animal). In Swedish and Finnish, the nickname Nalle ("teddy bear") refers to Björn. Surname *Claus Bjørn, Danish author, historian, and television and radio broadcaster *Evert Björn, Swedish Olympic athlete *Hugo Björne, Swedish actor *Kristian Bjørn, Norwegian skier * Lasse Björn, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player *Nathalie Björn, Swedish football player *Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer Given name Acting *Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor and musician *Björn Bjelfvenstam, Swedish actor *Björn Granath, Swedish actor *Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian and actor *Björn Gustafson, Swedish actor *Björn Kjellman, Swedish actor and singer *Björn Skifs, Swedish singer and actor Art a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Patterson
James Peter Patterson (born January 4, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer for the United States, from Sun Valley, Idaho. At the Winter Olympics, he finished thirteenth in the downhill in 1976 and fifth in 1980. At the time, he tied for the best finish by an American male in an Olympic downhill (with Bill Beck in 1952). Two years earlier at the 1978 World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, Patterson was the bronze medalist in the combined event. The combined was then a "paper race", using the results of the downhill, giant slalom, and slalom. World championship results From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the 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 ... for alpine skiing. Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Bernardi
Mauro Bernardi (born 11 August 1957) is an Italian former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics. He closed 10th in overall in 1978 Alpine Skiing World Cup Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd .... World Cup podiums See also * Italian skiers who closed in top 10 in overall World Cup References External links * * * * 1957 births Living people Italian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Italy Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Italian mountain climbers Skiers from Bolzano 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{italy-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jože Kuralt
Jože Kuralt (14 October 1956 in Škofja Loka, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia – 24 March 1986 in Sachsenburg, Austria, near from Spittal an der Drau), was a Slovenian former alpine skier who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Winter Olympics and 1984 Winter Olympics. He died in a car accident. He came with an aeroplane from Furano, Japan to Munich, West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...; Daniel Stane Kurak, a team-manager, was the driver. External links * 1956 births 1986 deaths Slovenian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Yugoslavia Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics People from Škofja Loka Road incident deaths in Austria {{Slovenia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Stock
Leonhard Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Career Stock earned his first World Cup points at age 18 in January 1977. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Stock was originally an alternate for the downhill, but his fast training times on the course at Whiteface Mountain earned him a spot on the four-man Austrian team. On race day, he was the ninth racer on the course and posted the fastest time to win the gold medal. Stock could not repeat his surprise win at the Lake Placid Olympics on the World Cup tour until almost a decade later, winning downhill races in 1989, 1990, and 1992. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he just missed a second Olympic medal, finishing fourth in the downhill and eighth in the Super-G at Nakiska. In 1997 he took over his parental (farm)house in Finkenberg and converted it into a hotel. With his brother Hans he also runs a sports and fashion store in that town. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Enn
Hans Enn (born 10 May 1958) is an Austrian former alpine skier 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 ... and Olympic medalist. At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid Enn was bronze medalist in the giant slalom."1980 Winter Olympics – Lake Placid, United States – Alpine Skiing" (Retrieved on February 28, 2008) References External links * * 1958 births Liv ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohumír Zeman
Bohumír Zeman (born 26 May 1957 in Vrchlabí) is a Czech former alpine skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Winter Olympics 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 .... External links * 1957 births Living people Czech male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Winter World University Games medalists in alpine skiing FISU World University Games gold medalists for Czechoslovakia Competitors at the 1978 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 1981 Winter Universiade Sportspeople from Vrchlabí Skiers from the Hradec Králové Region {{CzechRepublic-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfram Ortner
Wolfram Ortner (born 10 March 1960) is an Austrian former alpine skier 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 ... who was 4th at the 1982 World Championships in combined. World Cup results ;Top 5 References External links * 1960 births Living people Austrian male alpine skiers People from Spittal an der Drau District Skiers from Carinthia 20th-century Austrian sportsmen {{Austria-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mally
Peter Mally (born 19 October 1958) is an Italian alpine skiing coach and former alpine skier 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 ... who finished 7th in slalom at the 1982 World Championships. World Cup results ;Top 10 World Championship results References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mally, Peter 1958 births Living people Italian male alpine skiers Germanophone Italian people Sportspeople from Merano Skiers from South Tyrol Italian alpine skiing coaches 20th-century Italian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
