Alpine World Ski Championships 1999

35th Alpine World Ski Championships 1999
Place:	Vail / Beaver Creek , United States
Start:	February 2, 1999
The End:	February 14, 1999
Competitions:	10
winner
	Men's	Ladies
Departure	Hermann Maier	Renate Götschl
Super G	Hermann Maier Lasse Kjus	Alexandra Meissnitzer
Giant slalom	Leave kjus	Alexandra Meissnitzer
slalom	Kalle Palander	Zali Steggall
combination	Kjetil André Aamodt	Pernilla Wiberg
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The 35th Alpine World Ski Championships took place from February 2 to 14, 1999 in the winter sports resorts of Vail and Beaver Creek in the US state of Colorado .

Worth mentioning

• The men's speed competitions including the combination downhill run took place in Beever Creak, while the women and all other men's races including the combination slalom were held in Vail.
• The "Birds of Prey" had been redesigned by Bernhard Russi and in December 1997 the first men's World Cup races took place there.
• For the first time there was an ex-aequo placement in first place at an Alpine World Ski Championships ( Lasse Kjus and Hermann Maier in the Super-G).
• Lasse Kjus was the star of this championship, because he could not only win two gold medals, but one medal in all races.
• The women’s team of the ÖSV managed to achieve an entire podium twice (actually the first four places in the downhill), which so far only the German selection in downhill and combination had succeeded in the women's world championships in 1938, as it was otherwise only with the "weaker sex" 1937 (Slalom) and 1939 (Downhill) for Germany (or the German Reich) and 1964 (Downhill) for Austria this complete set of medals.

In terms of 5 gold medals as well as a total of 13 medals, it was the second most successful world championships for Austria after 1962 in the history of all world championships (as of April 2017).

• As in 1989, Italy could not win a medal on the slopes in Vail and Beaver Creek.
• The German Ski Association went without a medal for the first time since 1982.
• Twice, tiny things were decisive for Hans Knauß : in the Super-G it was a hundredth that he was missing on gold - and it was two hundredths in the downhill, which meant he had to take a seat next to the podium in fourth.
• For the first time ever there was a "big" victory for Finland with the gold medal in the men's slalom by Kalle Palander , because neither in the World Cup nor in all the years before 1967 this was the case in more important competitions. The gold medal for Australia in women's slalom was also a novelty, but the winner Zali Steggall had already won a World Cup slalom (November 23, 1997) and a slalom bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Nagano last year, and she had already won two World Cups for men ( and departure bronze 1970).
• On ORF -TV, both the women's and men's downhill runs had a reach of 68%, but 2.141 million viewers watched the four-fold success of the women and "only" 2.031 million the victory of Hermann Maier. (In contrast, the women's slalom was only shown with a time delay so that the first run was shown as a summary.)
• Sonja Nef's sponsor came up with a gag regarding her 11th place in the giant slalom when he announced in the following newspaper advertisements that the audience would have had the runner in the picture longer because of this "delay".

Men

Departure

space	country	athlete	time
1	AUT	Hermann Maier	1: 40.60 min
2	NOR	Leave kjus	1: 40.91 min
3	NOR	Kjetil André Aamodt	1: 41.17 min
4th	AUT	Hans Knauß	1: 41.19 min
5	AUT	Stephan Eberharter	1: 41.40 min
6th	AUT	Werner Franz	1: 41.75 min
7th	SUI	Bruno Kernen	1: 41.98 min
8th	NOR	Audun Grønvold	1: 42.37 min
-	-	-	-
14th	SUI	Didier Cuche	1: 43.42 min
15th	SUI	Jürg Grünenfelder	1: 43.45 min
16	SUI	Paul Accola	1: 43.69 min
23	GER	Stefan Stankalla	1: 45.87 min

Defending champion: Bruno Kernen II (SUI)
Date : February 6th, 11:00 am
Slope: " Birds of Prey ", Beaver Creek
Length: 2762 m, difference in altitude: 757 m
Goals: 41

There were 42 runners at the start, 36 of them reached the finish.

Retired u. a .: Daron Rahlves (USA), Peter Runggaldier (ITA)

Super G

space	country	athlete	time
1	AUT	Hermann Maier	1: 14.53 min
	NOR	Leave kjus	1: 14.53 min
3	AUT	Hans Knauß	1: 14.54 min
4th	AUT	Stephan Eberharter	1: 14.75 min
5	SUI	Paul Accola	1: 14.79 min
6th	United States	Chad Fleischer	1: 14.81 min
7th	SUI	Steve Locher	1: 15.27 min
8th	SUI	Didier Cuche	1: 15.37 min
-	-	-	-
16	AUT	Rainer Salzgeber	1: 16.20 min
17th	SUI	Bruno Kernen	1: 16.24 min
20th	GER	Stefan Stankalla	1: 16.61 min
22nd	GER	Andreas Ertl	1: 16.84 min

Defending champion: Atle Skårdal (NOR) (resigned in 1997)
Date : February 2, 12:30 pm
Track: Birds of Prey, Beaver Creek
Length: 1932 m, difference in altitude: 611 m
Goals: 36

There were 50 runners at the start, 44 of them reached the finish.

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete	time
1	NOR	Leave kjus	2: 19.31 min
2	LIE	Marco Büchel	2: 19.36 min
3	SUI	Steve Locher	2: 20.79 min
4th	SWE	Fredrik Nyberg	2: 21.14 min
	SUI	Paul Accola	2: 21.14 min
6th	ITA	Patrick Holzer	2: 21.16 min
7th	SUI	Michael von Grünigen	2: 21.24 min
8th	AUT	Christian Mayer	2: 21.25 min
-	-	-	-
20th	SUI	Tobias Grünenfelder	2: 23.27 min
23	GER	Markus Eberle	2: 24.10 min
27	GER	Stefan Stankalla	2: 25.75 min

Defending champion: Michael von Grünigen (SUI)
Date : February 12, 10:30 am (1st run), 1:30 pm (2nd run)
Track: "International", Vail
Length: 1400 m, difference in altitude: 375 m
Tore : 51 (1st run), 52 (2nd run)

94 runners started, 55 of them reached the finish.

Retired u. a .: Kjetil André Aamodt (NOR), Andreas Ertl (GER), Stephan Eberharter (AUT), Hermann Maier (AUT), Didier Plaschy (SUI), Benjamin Raich (AUT), Alois Vogl (GER)

slalom

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Kalle Palander	1: 42.12 min
2	NOR	Leave kjus	1: 42.23 min
3	AUT	Christian Mayer	1: 42.25 min
4th	ITA	Giorgio Rocca	1: 42.33 min
5	AUT	Benjamin Raich	1: 42.55 min
6th	AUT	Thomas Stangassinger	1: 42.82 min
7th	NOR	Kjetil André Aamodt	1: 42.91 min
8th	United States	Bode Miller	1: 42.94 min
9	SUI	Paul Accola	1: 43.24 min
-	-	-	-
12	SUI	Michael von Grünigen	1: 44.21 min
13	SUI	Marco Casanova	1: 44.37 min

Defending champion: Tom Stiansen (NOR)
Date : February 14, 10:30 am (1st run), 1:30 pm (2nd run)
Slope: "International", Vail
Length: 600 m, difference in altitude: 207 m
Gates: 65 (1st run), 64 (2nd run)

There were 83 runners at the start, 32 of them reached the finish.

In the first run the front starting numbers with the elite runners had a disadvantage because the snow was extremely slippery; The conditions only got better from the slightly higher start numbers.

Retired u. a .: Pierrick Bourgeat (FRA), Hans Petter Buraas (NOR), Andreas Ertl (GER), Thomas Grandi (CAN), Martin Hansson (SWE), Didier Plaschy (SUI), Tom Stiansen (NOR), Michael Walchhofer (AUT )

combination

space	country	athlete	Time A	Time S.	total
1	NOR	Kjetil André Aamodt	1: 13.52 (2.)	1: 29.57 (3rd)	2: 43.09 min
2	NOR	Leave kjus	1: 13.58 (3rd)	1: 29.67 (4th)	2: 43.25 min
3	SUI	Paul Accola	1: 14.38 (6.)	1: 29.24 (2.)	2: 43.62 min
4th	AUT	Christian Mayer	1: 14.98 (11.)	1: 28.91 (1.)	2: 43.89 min
5	SUI	Bruno Kernen	1: 13.44 (1.)	1: 31.48 (10.)	2: 44.92 min
6th	AUT	Michael Walchhofer	1: 14.76 (8th)	1: 30.22 (6.)	2: 44.98 min
7th	ITA	Alessandro Fattori	1: 14.55 (7.)	1: 31.33 (9.)	2: 45.88 min
8th	FRA	Yves Dimier	1: 17.13 (25.)	1: 29.91 (5.)	2: 47.04 min
9	GER	Andreas Ertl	1: 17.73 (26.)	1: 30.33 (8th)	2: 48.06 min

Defending champion: Kjetil André Aamodt (NOR)
Date : February 8, 11:00 am (departure)
February 9, 10:30 am / 1:30 pm (slalom)

Downhill route: "Birds of Prey", Beaver Creek
Route length: 2762 m, altitude difference: 757 m,
gates: 41

Slalom course: "International", Vail
Length: 550 m, difference in altitude: 187 m
Goals: 53 (1st run), 54 (2nd run)

There were 40 runners at the start, 22 classified.

Retired u. a .: Werner Franz (AUT), Jürg Grünenfelder (SUI), Bode Miller (USA), Mario Reiter (AUT)

Women

Departure

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	AUT	Renate Götschl	1: 48.20 min
2	AUT	Michaela Dorfmeister	1: 48.35 min
3	AUT	Stefanie Schuster	1: 48.37 min
4th	AUT	Alexandra Meissnitzer	1: 48.47 min
5	GER	Regina Häusl	1: 48.92 min
6th	FRA	Mélanie Suchet	1: 48.97 min
7th	CAN	Mélanie Turgeon	1: 49.04 min
8th	United States	Megan Gerety	1: 49.30 min
-	-	-	-
10	GER	Martina Ertl	1: 49.53 min
12	GER	Hilde Gerg	1: 49.66 min
13	SUI	Sylviane Berthod	1: 49.70 min
17th	SUI	Corinne Rey-Bellet	1: 50.19 min
32	GER	Monika Bergmann	1: 52.16 min

Defending champion: Hilary Lindh (USA) (end of career 1997)
Date : February 7th, 11:00 am
Track: "International", Vail
Length: 2811 m, difference in altitude: 667 m
Goals: 40

There were 35 runners at the start, all of them reached the finish.

Super G

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	AUT	Alexandra Meissnitzer	1: 20.53 min
2	AUT	Renate Götschl	1: 20.56 min
3	AUT	Michaela Dorfmeister	1: 20.74 min
4th	GER	Hilde Gerg	1: 20.83 min
5	GER	Martina Ertl	1: 20.98 min
6th	ITA	Isolde Kostner	1: 21.21 min
7th	SUI	Sylviane Berthod	1: 21.34 min
8th	SUI	Corinne Rey-Bellet	1: 21.46 min
-	-	-	-
13	GER	Regina Häusl	1: 21.98 min
20th	AUT	Christiane Mitterwallner	1: 22.34 min

Defending champion: Isolde Kostner (ITA)
Date : February 3rd, 12:30 pm
Slope: "International", Vail
Length: 1853 m, difference in altitude: 478 m,
gates: 36

There were 41 runners at the start, 37 of them reached the finish.

Giant slalom

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	AUT	Alexandra Meissnitzer	2: 08.54 min
2	NOR	Andrine Flemmen	2: 08.84 min
3	AUT	Anita Wachter	2: 09.13 min
4th	SWE	Pernilla Wiberg	2: 09.27 min
5	GER	Martina Ertl	2: 09.46 min
6th	SUI	Corinne Rey-Bellet	2: 09.52 min
7th	ITA	Deborah Compagnoni	2: 09.90 min
8th	SLO	Špela Pretnar	2: 09.98 min
-	-	-	-
11	SUI	Sonja Nef	2: 10.33 min
12	LIE	Birgit Heeb	2: 10.50 min
17th	SUI	Lilian sorrow	2: 11.86 min
18th	AUT	Christiane Mitterwallner	2: 12.03 min
19th	SUI	Karin Roten	2: 12.10 min

Defending champion: Deborah Compagnoni (ITA) (resigned in 1998)
Date: February 11, 10:30 am (1st run), 1:30 pm (2nd run)
Slope: "International", Vail
Length: 1200 m, difference in altitude: 341 m
goals: 48 (1st run), 46 (2nd run)

There were 77 runners at the start, 42 of them reached the finish.

Retired u. a .: Alenka Dovžan (SLO), Urška Hrovat (SLO), Ana Galindo Santolaria (ESP), Hilde Gerg (GER), Nicole Gius (ITA), Karin Köllerer (AUT), Janica Kostelić (CRO), Kristina Koznick (USA ), Caroline Lalive (USA), Ylva Nowén (SWE), Sabina Panzanini (ITA), Anja Pärson (SWE), Carolina Ruiz Castillo (ESP)

slalom

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	OUT	Zali Steggall	1: 33.97 min
2	SWE	Pernilla Wiberg	1: 34.77 min
3	NOR	Trine Bakke	1: 35.00 min
4th	NOR	Andrine Flemmen	1: 35.06 min
5	FIN	Riitta Pitkänen	1: 35.12 min
6th	AUT	Karin Köllerer	1: 35.22 min
7th	SLO	Urška Hrovat	1: 35.23 min
8th	ITA	Deborah Compagnoni	1: 35.33 min
9	AUT	Anita Wachter	1: 35.34 min
-	-	-	-
11	SUI	Karin Roten	1: 35.68 min
17th	AUT	Ingrid Salvenmoser	1: 36.61 min
27	SUI	Corina Grünenfelder	1: 37.63 min

Defending champion: Deborah Compagnoni (ITA) (resigned)
Date : February 13, 10:30 am (1st run), 1:30 pm (2nd run)
Slope: "International", Vail
Length: 475 m, difference in altitude: 165 m
goals: 55 (1st run), 59 (2nd run)

There were 77 runners at the start, 40 of them reached the finish.

Retired u. a .: Monika Bergmann (GER), Elfi Eder (GRN), Sabine Egger (AUT), Ana Galindo Santolaria (ESP), Annemarie Gerg (GER), Hilde Gerg (GER), Britt Janyk (CAN), Kristina Koznick (USA ), Caroline Lalive (USA), Sonja Nef (SUI), Ylva Nowén (SWE), Anja Pärson (SWE), Laure Pequegnot (FRA), Leila Piccard (FRA), Špela Pretnar (SLO), Claudia Riegler (NZL), Carolina Ruiz Castillo (ESP), Geneviève Simard (CAN)

The winner Steggall was in 6th place after the first run

combination

space	country	sportswoman	Time A	Time S.	total
1	SWE	Pernilla Wiberg	1: 35.10 (5.)	1: 33.42 (1.)	3: 08.52 min
2	AUT	Renate Götschl	1: 33.66 (1.)	1: 35.01 (6.)	3: 08.67 min
3	FRA	Florence Masnada	1: 35.12 (7.)	1: 33.85 (2.)	3: 08.97 min
4th	GER	Hilde Gerg	1: 34.98 (4.)	1: 34.40 (5.)	3: 09.38 min
5	NOR	Trude Gimle	1: 36.21 (15.)	1: 34.30 (4.)	3: 10.51 min
6th	AUT	Michaela Dorfmeister	1: 34.71 (3rd)	1: 36.65 (7.)	3: 11.36 min
7th	CRO	Janica Kostelić	1: 37.72 (23.)	1: 34.06 (3rd)	3: 11.78 min
8th	SUI	Corinne Rey-Bellet	1: 35.96 (13.)	1: 36.67 (8th)	3: 12.63 min

Defending champion: Renate Götschl (AUT)
Date: February 5, 10:00 (departure)
February 5, 1:00 p.m. / 3:00 p.m. (slalom)

Downhill route: "International", Vail
Route length: 2423 m, altitude difference: 598 m,
gates: 36

Slalom course: "International", Vail
Length: 450 m, height difference: 150 m
Gates: 58 (1st run), 46 (2nd run)

There were 28 runners at the start, 15 classified.

Retired u. a .: Monika Bergmann (GER), Sylviane Berthod (SUI), Karin Blaser (AUT), Martina Ertl (GER), Isolde Kostner (ITA), Caroline Lalive (USA), Brigitte Obermoser (AUT), Stefanie Schuster (AUT)

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Austria	5	3	5	13
2	Norway	3	4th	2	9
3	Sweden	1	1	-	2
4th	Australia	1	-	-	1
	Finland	1	-	-	1
6th	Liechtenstein	-	1	-	1
7th	Switzerland	-	-	2	2
8th	France	-	-	1	1