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1980 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom
Men's giant slalom World Cup 1979/1980 Final point standings In men's giant slalom World Cup 1979/80 the best 5 results count. Eight racers had a point deduction, which are given in brackets. Ingemar Stenmark won the cup with maximum points. He won his sixth Giant slalom World Cup in a row. References fis-ski.com {{DEFAULTSORT:1980 Alpine Skiing World Cup - Men's giant 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 giant slalom discipline titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up the technical events in alpine ski racing. This category separates them from the speed events of Super-G and Downhill (ski competition), downhill. The technical events are normally composed of two runs, held on different courses on the same ski run. Course The vertical drop for a GS course must be for men, and for women. The number of gates in this event is 56–70 for men and 46–58 for women. The number of direction changes in a GS course equals 11–15% of the vertical drop of the course in metres, 13–18% for children. As an example, a course with a vertical drop of would have 33–45 direction changes for an adult race. Speed Although giant slalom is not the fastest event in skiing, on average a well-t ... [...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] |
Tiziano Bieler
Tiziano Bieller (born 22 February 1956) is a former Italian alpine skier. Originally from Champoluc, he is not a relative of the former alpine skiers Franco Bieler and Wanda Bieler, in turn cousins between them, among other things his surname is written with a double L even if in many places it is wrongly spelled with only one. Career During his career he has won an overall national title in giant slalom in 1980 and was a member of the Italy national alpine ski team, in the 1970s and 1980s known as the '' blue avalanche'' (in Italian language ''valanga azzurra''), with which national A participated in the entire 1980 World Cup season. He was 2nd in the overall standings of the 1980 FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup but won the discipline standings of giant slalom. Europa Cup results Bieller has won one discipline cup. *FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup **Giant slalom: National titles Bieller has won one national championships at individual senior level. *Italian Alpine Ski Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Giorgi
Alex Giorgi (born 9 December 1957) is an Italian former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics and 1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: ; ) and commonly known as Sarajevo '84 (Serbian Cy .... References External links * 1957 births Living people Italian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Italy Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Skiers from Brixen 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{italy-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Heidegger
Klaus Heidegger (born 19 August 1957) is an Austrian former alpine skier. Career He had five victories on the FIS World Cup circuit. These were the giant slalom at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the slalom at Furano, and the giant slalom at Voss, all in 1977, and the slalom events at Wengen and Kitzbühel, both in 1978.Federation Internationale de Ski"Biographie - HEIDEGGER Klaus" Retrieved on 31 May 2013. Heidegger finished second overall in the 1977 World Cup standings, behind Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden. Following his skiing career, Heidegger has served as co-president of the American cosmetic company Kiehl's, which was sold to L'Oreal for an estimated price of $100 million to $150 million in 2000. Klaus Heidegger is also a co-founder of Masai Group International, provider of MBT Physiological Footwear, which received an investment from Berkshire Partners in 2007. Heidegger is married to Jami Morse Heidegger. His son Max is a professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Popangelov
Petăr Popangelov (Bulgarian: Петър Попангелов, born 31 January 1959) is a Bulgarian alpine skier known at home by his nickname "Pepe" Popangelov. He won the 1977 European Cup in slalom World Cup in Lenggries, Germany. He continued racing in World Cup events for more than a decade from 1977 through 1988, finishing eleven times in first, second, or third place. Biography Pepe Popangelov competed in four Winter Olympiads. He took sixth place in two of those outings at the 1980 games in Lake Placid and at the 1984 games in Sarajevo. He won 26 Bulgarian national championships during his career. Popangelov's father, the late Petar Popangelov Senior, was "Pepe's" trainer and was a famous Bulgarian ski champion in his own right who competed in five Winter Olympiads. After earning such distinctions, the Popangelov family was awarded property in the Bulgarian ski resort of Borovets where they built their own bed & breakfast lodge and ski school known as the Hotel Popangelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wörndl
Frank Wörndl (born 28 June 1959) is a retired German Alpine skier. A four-time national slalom champion, Wörndl never won a World Cup race, and had mediocre results at the 1980 Olympics, finishing 10th in the slalom and 17th in the giant slalom. Yet he became one of the most successful German alpine skiers in history after winning the world slalom title in 1987 and an Olympic silver medal in 1988. He retired the same year and worked as a TV commentator for ZDF and Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie .... In 2007 he opened a fitness studio in Sonthofen, and since 2011 he also performs as a singer. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Mahre
Steven Irving Mahre (born May 10, 1957 in Yakima, Washington) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and younger twin brother (by four minutes) of ski racer Phil Mahre. Career Mahre won the silver medal in slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, 0.21 seconds behind his brother. He won the gold medal in giant slalom at the 1982 World Championships in Schladming, Austria. His best finish in the overall standings was third in 1982 and fourth in 1981 (brother Phil was the overall World Cup champion in 1981, 1982, and 1983). After nine seasons, the Mahre twins retired from the World Cup circuit following the 1984 season. Steve finished his career with 9 World Cup victories and 21 podiums. They would be honored with the ceremonial first pitch at the 1984 Seattle Mariners season home opener. The book ''No Hill Too Fast'', written by the Mahre brothers, was published in 1985. World Cup results Season standings Race victories *9 wins (2 GS, 6 SL, 1 K) *21 podiums (3 ... [...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] |
Jure Franko
Jure Franko () (born 28 March 1962 in Nova Gorica) is a Slovenian- Yugoslav former alpine skier, best known for winning a giant slalom silver medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Jure Franko was born and raised in Nova Gorica, a city in Slovenia at the border with Italy. Franko competed in giant slalom and super giant slalom events, and reached the peak of his skiing career in the 1983–84 season. On 14 February 1984, at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, he won a silver medal in giant slalom. This was the first Winter Olympics medal ever for Yugoslavia. Franko was at the 4th position after the first leg of the giant slalom, and delivered the fastest time of the second leg, bringing him to second place overall ( Max Julen from Switzerland took gold). Franko also competed in the World Cup competitions, where he placed himself 3rd three times. In addition, he achieved 23 top ten positions, and 11 additional top 15 positions. He quit skiing after the 1984– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Gros
Piero "Pierino" Gros (born 30 October 1954) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northwestern Italy. He won the gold medal in slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, and was the World Cup overall champion in 1974. Biography Gros was born at Sauze d'Oulx, in the province of Turin in the Piedmont region. He learned to ski at an early age, thanks to Aldo Monaci and Aldo Zulian. At the age of 8, he was for the first time on the podium of a local race. Gros made his debut in the World Cup at age 18 in December 1972. In that 1973 season, he won two races in Val d'Isère and Madonna di Campiglio; he was the youngest Italian skier ever to win a World Cup race. Two years later he won the overall title, sharing this result in Italy only with his friend and rival Gustav Thöni and with Alberto Tomba. Thöni had won the overall title the three preceding seasons and would reclaim it in 1975; he was the runner-up in 1974, and if not for Gros, would've won an unthinkable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Orlainsky
Christian Orlainsky (born 27 February 1962) is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Career In 1980 he finished 13th in the Olympic giant slalom event. He also competed in the slalom competition but did not finish the race. In 1981 he won his only world cup giant slalom in Ebnat-Kappel Ebnat-Kappel is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Toggenburg (Wahlkreis), Toggenburg in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of St. Gallen (canton), St. Gallen in Switzerland. History Kappel is fir ... and finished sixth in the giant slalom world cup. References External links * * 1962 births Living people Austrian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics People from Bludenz District Skiers from Vorarlberg 20th-century Austrian sportsmen {{Austria-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
