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Locations in South Korea. Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held from 12 to 24 February at Yongpyong Alpine Centre (slalom and giant slalom) at the Alpensia Sports Park in PyeongChang and at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre (speed events) in Jeongseon, South Korea. [1]
825 m (2,707 ft) Top elevation. 1,370 m (4,495 ft) Base elevation. 545 m (1,788 ft) The men's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held on Thursday, 15 February, at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang. [1][2] Scheduled for Sunday, 11 February, winds in excess of 50 km/h (31 mph) forced officials to postpone the race ...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with medal winners from Russia, 28 February 2018. The Netherlands achieved a podium sweep in speed skating, in the women's 3,000 metres. [3] Norway achieved a podium sweep in cross-country skiing, in the men's 30 km skiathlon. [4] Germany achieved a podium sweep in nordic combined, in the individual large ...
Top elevation. 1,275 m (4,183 ft) Base elevation. 545 m (1,788 ft) The women's downhill competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre in PyeongChang on Wednesday, 21 February. [1] [2] Italy's Sofia Goggia won the gold medal, Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Lindsey ...
In 1952, American Andrea Mead Lawrence became the first female alpine skier to win two gold medals; Henri Oreiller of France won two golds and a bronze in 1948. Alberto Tomba of Italy was the first to successfully defend an Olympic alpine title, in giant slalom in 1992. Five others have since repeated, Aamodt in super-G in 2006, his third win ...
Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 140 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018).
Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948 to 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in even-numbered non-Olympic years. During this period, the Olympic medalists ...
Base elevation. 1,285 m (4,216 ft) The men's downhill competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on Monday, 7 February, at Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre ski resort in Yanqing District. [1] Beat Feuz of Switzerland was the champion, Johan Clarey of France was the silver medalist, and Matthias Mayer of Austria took the bronze.