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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's Super-G
Complete results for Men's Super-G competition at the 2011 World Championships. It ran on February 9 at 11:00 local time, the second race of the championships. 73 athletes from 30 countries competed. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 - Men's super-G Super-G, men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garmisch Classic
Garmisch Classic is an Alpine skiing, alpine ski area in the Bavarian Alps of southern Germany, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. Its maximum elevation is above sea level at Osterfelderkopf, with a vertical drop of . Other peaks of ski area are the Kreuzjoch at and Kreuzeck (Wetterstein), Kreuzeck at . The area hosted the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, World Championships in FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011, 2011 and FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1978, 1978, and alpine skiing debuted at the Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics here in Alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics, 1936. Run only as a Alpine skiing combined, combined event in 1936, the Downhill (ski competition), downhill portion was run at Garmisch Classic and the Slalom skiing, slalom was run at Gudiberg, adjacent to the ski jumps (Große Olympiaschanze). Garmisch Classic is known for the classic Arlberg-Kandahar, Kandahar slope, descending from Kreuzjoch, where the speed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Ford (skier)
Tommy Ford (born March 20, 1989) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer. He specializes in giant slalom and super-G; his best World Cup result to date is a first-place finish at a giant slalom event in December 2019. He has represented the US in three Winter Olympics and five World Championships. Career Ford was on skis at age two, as his parents were racers and coaches. Raised in Bend, Oregon, he skied and raced at nearby Mount Bachelor and later attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and has won eight titles at the U.S. Alpine Championships. During the 2013 season, Ford fractured his right femur in mid-January while free skiing in La Clusaz, France. Following surgery in Annecy, he returned to the U.S. and missed over two years, including the 2013 World Championships and 2014 Winter Olympics. During the 2017 season, Ford had five top-20 finishes in giant slalom and was 25th in the season standings. Ford attained his first career World Cup top-ten finish in De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Zuev
Stephan Zuev (born 31 October 1988) is an alpine skier from Russia. He competed for Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics Russia participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In summary, the country's participants earned 14 medals: two gold, five silver, and seven bronze. The gold-medal tally of two was the worst ever result for Ru .... His best result was a 23rd place in the combined. References External links 1988 births Living people People from Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast Russian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Russia Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Skiers from Murmansk Oblast 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natko Zrnčić-Dim
Natko Zrnčić-Dim (;), born 7 March 1986, is a Croatian alpine ski coach and retired World Cup skier. He won a bronze medal in super combined at the World Championships in 2009 at Val-d'Isère, France, and is a member of SK Medveščak. Born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, Zrnčić-Dim's best World Cup result is second place in a super combined, achieved on 30 January 2011 in Chamonix, France. Compatriot Ivica Kostelić won that race, his seventh of the month, and marked the first time that Croatians finished first and second in a World Cup race. Zrnčić-Dim incurred shoulder injury in a super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event ... at Beaver Creek in early December 2012, which ended his 2013 season. Through mid-January 2014, he has five World Cup podi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frey (skier)
Thomas Frey is an American futurist, author, storyteller, and celebrity speaker. Frey was the founder of the DaVinci Institute in Westminster, Colorado, but currently serves as the Executive Director and senior futurist of Futurist Speaker Inc. Before this, he was an engineer with IBM for fifteen years, during which he received over 270 awards, the highest number for any IBM engineer at the time. In 2024, Frey was named “Futurist of the Year” by Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. He is part of the celebrity speaking circuit and has shared billing with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, Rahm Emanuel, Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Ron Klain, Kevin McCarthy, Tom Peters, Muhammad Yunus, Joseph Stiglitz, Jimmy Wales, and Jack Welch. Frey's clients are located both internationally and in the United States, speaking to audiences of high-level government officials such as those of NASA, ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matts Olsson
Matts Olsson (born 1 December 1988) is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer who raced in the giant slalom discipline. Born in Karlstad, Olsson made his World Cup debut at age 19 in October 2007. He won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships in the team event, and finished 18th in the giant slalom, and 24th in the super-G. Matts Olsson won his first World Cup competition victory in Alta Badia in December 2017 at an evening event in Parallel giant slalom. Olsson defeated Marcel Hirscher in the semi-final and Henrik Kristoffersen Henrik Kristoffersen (born 2 July 1994) is a Norwegian FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 – Men's giant slalom, World Champion, and Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olymp ... in the final. The victory was Sweden's first World Cup win in Parallel giant slalom. On 14 March 2020, Olsson announced his retirement from the sport following the 2019–2020 season. Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Järbyn
Patrik Järbyn (born 16 April 1969 in Målsryd, Sweden) is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. Despite never having won a World Cup race, Järbyn has two individual World Championship medals. At the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, he won the silver medal in super-G. In 2007 at Åre, Sweden, he won the bronze medal in the downhill to become the oldest medalist ever at a World Championships. On 19 December 2008, Järbyn finished third in a super-G at Val Gardena, Italy, and set a new record as the oldest man to score a podium finish in a World Cup alpine race, at the age of 39 years and 9 months. Järbyn broke his own record, set with a third-place finish in the super-G at Lake Louise in November 2006 at the age of 37 years and 8 months. On 19 February 2010, in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Järbyn suffered a concussion after crashing up in Whistler in the men's super-G and was air-lifted to a hospital by helicopter. On 7 March 2012, Järby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleš Gorza
Aleš Gorza (born 20 July 1980) is a retired Slovenian alpine skier. Gorza represented Slovenia at the 2006 Winter Olympics. His World Cup debut was on 21 December 2001 in Kranjska Gora. His best results so far are two 3rd places in Super-G, one in Whistler, British Columbia and in Bormio, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ..., in 2008. He retired in 2012 after being dropped from Slovenian national ski team. World Cup results Season standings Race podiums References 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Slovenj Gradec Slovenian male alpine skiers 21st-century Slovenian sportsmen Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Slovenia {{Slovenia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Sander
Andreas Sander (born 13 June 1989) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer. He specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Career On 13 March 2008, Sander made his World Cup debut in the Bormio Super-G. In December 2010, he scored his first World Cup points in the Val Gardena downhill, finishing in 28th place. Sander competed at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in the Super-G and Downhill. He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA, in the super-G, downhill, and combined. On 29 December 2015, he scored his first Top 10 World Cup result in the Santa Caterina Downhill, finishing in 10th place. Sander won the silver medal in the downhill at the World Championships in 2021 at Cortina d'Ampezzo. His first World Cup podium came in March 2023 with a runner-up finish in the super-G at Aspen Aspen is a common name for certain tree species in the Populus sect. Populus, of the ''Populus'' (poplar) gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Šporn
Andrej Šporn (born 1 December 1981 in Kranjska Gora) is a former Slovenian 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 .... Šporn began his career as a competitor in slalom, though he had always shown great talent in both fast disciplines – the downhill and Super-G – and is also good in giant slalom. He was a successful competitor from an early age, having won competitions in his native Slovenia in the junior category. He did very well at the Junior World Ski Championship and finished in the top ten in slalom as well as downhill. In the 2003/04 season, he shined in the European Cup in which he won finished 4th in the slalom standings. One of his early successes at that level was the slalom win at the Universiade in Zakopane, Poland, in February 2001. After h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Thomsen
Benjamin Thomsen (born August 25, 1987), also known as Ben Thomsen, is a FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer from Canada. Born in Invermere, British Columbia, Invermere, British Columbia, he primarily competes in the speed events of Downhill (ski competition), Downhill and Super Giant Slalom skiing, Super G. Thomsen's father Glenn is a former national team coach for Alpine Canada. Thomsen made his World Cup debut in March 2010; his only podium came in February 2011–12 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2012, a second-place finish at the pre-Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill, Olympic downhill at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort, Rosa Khutor in Russia. – Former bricklayer Benjamin Thomsen scores first podium in Sochi – 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Ganong
Travis Scott Ganong (born July 14, 1988) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Born and raised in Truckee, California, he competed for the U.S. at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and placed fifth in the downhill at Rosa Khutor, 0.41 seconds behind the winner. Ganong gained his first World Cup victory in December 2014 in a downhill in Santa Caterina, Italy. At his third World Championships in 2015 at Beaver Creek, Colorado, he won the silver medal in the downhill. Ganong injured his right knee ( ACL) in late December 2017 at Bormio and missed the rest of the season, including the Ganong has been in a relationship with Canadian alpine racer Marie-Michèle Gagnon since 2008. The pair met through mutual friend Louis-Pierre Hélie. In 2014, the couple moved to a new home in Lake Tahoe, California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
