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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 but less than in Super-G .
The World Cup finals in the discipline are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States. [8] Only the top 25 skiers in the World Cup giant slalom discipline and the winner of the Junior World Championship in the discipline, plus any skiers who have scored at least 500 points in the World Cup overall classification for the season, are eligible to ...
The Men's giant slalom competition at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2025 will be held on 13 and 14 February 2025. [1] References This page was last ...
Alice Robinson's electric second run won her the World Cup giant slalom after two of the biggest stars failed to finish on Tuesday. With overall leader Federica Brignone and Olympic champion Sara ...
The parallel giant slalom was added to the program in 2021. In 2025 , the individual combined event was replaced with team combined event (which involve two-person national teams assigned to downhill and slalom respectively) and the parallel giant slalom was dropped from the World Championships.
The giant slalom is Feb. 13 and the slalom two days later. Shiffrin has also left open the possibility of doing the team combined, an event that will pair a technical specialist with a speed ...
The women's giant slalom in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to include ten events, including the final. [1] The season opened in Sölden , Austria on 26 October 2024. The season will be interrupted for the Alpine Skiing World Championships , this time in Saalbach , Austria during 4–16 February 2025. [ 2 ]
The giant slalom is conducted in two runs, with emphasis on manoeuvering rather than speed as the gates are fairly close together – but not as close as in slalom. The giant slalom also promotes endurance, with the primary difference between it and the slalom competition being the length of the course - the difference in level in giant slalom is 300 to 450 metres, while in slalom it is ...