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Speed skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics.The venue was in Les Arcs, about 60 km from the host city, Albertville. Michael Prufer, a 31-year-old medical doctor from Savoie, improved his own 1988 world record by 5.558 km/h.
Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line at as high a speed as possible, as timed over a fixed stretch of ski slope. There are two types of contest: breaking an existing speed record or having the fastest run at a given competition. Speed skiers regularly exceed 200 kilometres per hour (124 mph)
The governing body for speed skating, the International Skating Union (ISU), was included in the list of recognized federations when the International Olympic Committee was founded, but was first discussed seriously for the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. No speed skating events were contested, although figure skating – also governed by the ...
Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. [1] Events held at the first Winter Olympics included the men's 500-metre, 1500-metre, 5000-metre, and 10,000-metre races.
Hamilton competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in the speed skiing demonstration event. In this event he finished third behind the French competitors Michael Prufer and Philippe Goitschel. In 1995, Hamilton became the first skier to go faster than 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) and he held the world record between 1995 and 1997.
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Nicolas Bochatay (August 27, 1964 – February 22, 1992) was a Swiss speed skier who died during the 1992 Winter Olympics. [1] Bochatay was killed when he collided with a snow grooming vehicle on the morning of the speed skiing finals. He was the nephew of Olympic skier Fernande Bochatay.
Speed skiing was demonstrated in Albertville at the 1992 Winter Olympics. [188] Winter pentathlon , a variant of the modern pentathlon , was included as a demonstration event at the 1948 Games in Switzerland.