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Nevertheless, this federation doesn't publish any record. Speed skiing is performed in two principal categories : Speed One (S1), the best class, performed with specific speed skiing equipment; S2, the second class, performed with standard alpine skiing equipment (also called Production then Speed Downhil (SDH))
World Cup speed skiing Simon Billy in Vars, Hautes-Alpes 2019. 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.
A gifted all-around athlete, McKinney is best remembered as a world-class speed skier. In 1978 at Portillo, Chile, McKinney's record-breaking run of 200.222 km/h (124.137 mph) [2] made him the first speed skier to break the 200 km/h barrier. [3] Between 1974 and 1987, McKinney set seven world speed skiing records [4] in competitions around the ...
The FIS World Speed Skiing Championships are a biannual speed skiing competition organized by FIS. A demonstration sport on the occasion of the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville , the World Championships are today the most prestigious event, followed by the World Cup .
Raised in Tirol, Franz Weber was the 1977 European Skateboard Champion, before changing his focus to speed skiing. From 1980 to 1985 he dominated this discipline and was six times world champion and held the world record; in 1985, he retired.
Speed Skiing* 46 in Speed Skiing. [38] 38: Yelena Välbe Russia: 45: 1987–1998: Cross-Country Skiing: 45 in Distance Races. [39] Stefan Kraft Austria: 45 2012– Ski Jumping 33 in Large Hill, 10 in Flying Hill, 2 in Normal Hill. [40] 40: Hermann Reitberger Germany: 44: 1980–1991: Freestyle Skiing: 44 in Acroski. [41] Raphaël Poirée France ...
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. He was a three-time world champion between 1998 and 2000; he also medaled in two other years. He also set a world record for inline speed skating at 65 miles per hour (105 km/h). [1] [2] [3]
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.