FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

The Alpine Ski World Championships are held every two years -find sporting event where the world champion will be determined in the alpine skiing disciplines in different races. Is organized by the International Ski Federation FIS. The Alpine Ski World Championships are next to the Olympic Games to the main competitions in alpine ski racing.

First world championships were held in Alpine skiing in 1931. Initially they were referred to as FIS competitions, FIS Championships or simply in FIS races from 1937 carried the events officially as World Championships. By 1939, the championships were held annually. After the Second World War, the world championships were held every two years from 1948 to 1982, and up to the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Olympic world champions at the same time (except in the combination ). Since 1985, find the world championships in odd years instead of independently of the Olympic Winter Games. Exception was the World Cup in the Sierra Nevada, which took place only in 1996, as had previously ruled acute lack of snow a year.

According to the official version of the FIS the sporting event is named in the plural and is called "Alpine World Ski Championships ( year) ".

Venues

  • Switzerland St. Moritz 2017
  • United States Vail / Beaver Creek 2015
  • Germany Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011
  • France Val d'Isère 2009
  • Sweden Åre 2007
  • Italy Bormio 2005
  • Switzerland St. Moritz 2003
  • United States Vail / Beaver Creek 1999
  • Sestriere Italy 1997
  • Spain Sierra Nevada 1996
  • Japan Morioka Shizukuishi 1993
  • United States Vail 1989
  • Switzerland Crans -Montana 1987
  • Italy Bormio 1985
  • United States Lake Placid 1980
  • Germany Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1978
  • Switzerland St. Moritz 1974
  • Japan Sapporo 1972
  • Italy Val Gardena 1970
  • France Grenoble 1968
  • Chile Portillo 1966
  • France Chamonix 1962
  • United States Squaw Valley 1960
  • Italy Cortina d' Ampezzo 1956
  • Sweden Åre 1954
  • Norway Oslo 1952
  • United States Aspen 1950
  • Switzerland St. Moritz 1948
  • Italy Cortina d' Ampezzo in 1941 *
  • Poland Zakopane 1939
  • Switzerland Engelberg 1938
  • France Chamonix 1937
  • Murren Switzerland 1935
  • Switzerland St. Moritz 1934
  • Italy Cortina d' Ampezzo 1932
  • Murren Switzerland 1931

* The results of the World Cup in 1941 were canceled by the International Ski Federation, 1946.

The nine times the world championships were held in Switzerland and Austria. The most common host is 5 Events in St. Moritz.

The successful participants

See: List of world champion in alpine skiing

The most successful participant in World Championships Christl Cranz is (GER ), the 12 - times world champion was. Overall, she has won 15 medals (12 gold, 3 silver). The most successful participants in the men 's Toni Sailer (AUT ) of the seven - times world champion and has a total of 8 medals ( 7 gold, 1 silver ) won. However, the most medals in the men, the five - time world champion Kjetil André Aamodt (NOR ) with 12 medals (5 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze ) won. Anja Parson (SWE ) is the only title brought in all five skiing disciplines (slalom in 2001, Giant Slalom 2001/2003, Super-G 2005/2007, departure in 2007, Super Combined 2007).

Perpetual medal

  • Cancelled World Cup 1941:

According to APA report dated January 29, 2013 search of the ORF showed that the FIS has now taken up the discharged only in one run slalom Lord 1931 in the official medal table, giving the Austrians a silver medal ( Toni Seelos ) falls. In the majority of these unofficial medal statistics out medals are already included.

According to APA, the medals table for Austria before the World Championships in 2013, 85 gold medals, 90 silver medals and 85 bronze medals. Here also the by Erik ( a) Schinegger is apparently added in 1966 in Portillo -won downhill gold medal, on which there are different views. In many statistics it is no longer performed. However, the FIS has at its decisions, on the one hand Marielle Goitschel the award gold, Annie Famose the silver and the fourth-placed Burgl Färbinger the bronze medal, noted not withdraw the gold medal won by Schinegger. Meanwhile found but this gold medal of Schinegger no longer in the FIS statistics.

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