City event
The city event is a discipline in alpine skiing . The races are not held in the mountains, but in the city and not “against the clock”, but “man against man” or “woman against woman”.
history
From the mid-1970s there were few parallel races in the Alpine Ski World Cup at irregular intervals, for the time being the last time in the 1997/98 season . In the winter of 2008/09, a promotion event not counting as part of the World Cup, organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS), took place in Moscow as a parallel race in order to arouse more interest in the Alpine Ski World Cup and skiing in general in Russia with a view to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . Originally planned for November 22, 2008, the event was postponed to January 2, 2009 for organizational reasons. This invitation race, called the FIS Alpine Ski Champions Cup , took place on a specially built, 56-meter-high ramp on the square in front of Lomonossow University . Similar competitions in snowboard and freestyle skiing had already been held there the year before. There were 16 men at the start, including numerous world-class runners. A new edition, the 2nd FIS Alpine Ski Champions Cup , took place on November 21, 2009 also in Moscow not far from last year's venue on a slightly larger, 66 meter high ramp. In front of over 25,000 spectators on the 210-meter-long course, there were 16 men this time as well as eight women, including numerous World Cup stars.
On January 2, 2011, such a parallel race was held as a city event for the first time as part of the Alpine Ski World Cup in Munich's Olympic Park , which has been tried and tested in winter sports . On the 200-meter-long route on Olympiaberg , 16 women and men each competed in front of 25,000 spectators, with Maria Pietilä Holmner and Ivica Kostelić winning . In the 2011/12 season , two city events were planned for the first time as part of the World Cup. In addition to Munich, Moscow was added as a second venue, where, after the two promotion events of the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons, on February 21, 2012 a World Cup took place for the first time. The race scheduled for January 1st in Munich had to be canceled due to weather conditions. Until the 2011/12 season, World Cup points from the City Event only counted towards the overall World Cup, since 2012/13 also towards the Slalom World Cup. There will be no city events in the 2013/14 season: After the organizers in Moscow announced their decision to cancel before the start of the season, the race in Munich planned for New Year's Day 2014 had to be canceled due to the mild weather.
In addition to the World Cup, a city event in the European Cup was held for the first time in the 2011/12 season .
regulate
The City Event is a parallel competition in which giant slalom goals are used and in which 16 women and 16 men can take part. In the World Cup, these are the four best on the overall World Cup start list and the twelve best on the Slalom World Cup start list. The latter is also decisive for moving up in the event of no-shows. The division of the duels is also based on the Slalom World Cup start list. The number 1 drives against the number 16, the number 2 against the number 15 and so on.
At the City Event the knockout system is used, whereby the tournament tree is designed so that number 1 and number 2 can only meet in the final . Before the "grand finale" for 1st and 2nd place there will be a "small final" for 3rd and 4th place. All rounds are held in two runs. The first run starts at the same time. The sides will be switched between the two runs. The second run starts with a time delay. The maximum backlog from the first run for the second run is 0.5 seconds.
The City Event is a slalom , which may result in points for the World Cup, but no points for the World Cup starting list. 5th to 8th place result from the total times of the quarter-finals. 9th to 16th place result from the total times of the round of 16.
The requirements for the route are a length of at least 20 goals, a width of at least 10 meters between the two sides and a running time of at least 20 seconds. The specification of the equipment corresponds to that of the slalom.
Everything else is regulated by the “City Event Rules” of the Fédération Internationale de Ski .
Reform proposals
Within the FIS , efforts are being made to harmonize the rules of the parallel giant slalom , the parallel slalom and possibly the city event in order to include the parallel race as a fixed sixth discipline alongside downhill , super-G , giant slalom , slalom and alpine combination in the competitions integrate. A corresponding working group was set up in autumn 2018, the premiere in the World Cup is for 2019/20 , the premiere at the World Championship is planned for 2021 .
Winners list
Promotion events
| Men's | Ladies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| date | place | winner | Final opponent | Winner | Final opponent |
| 02/01/2009 | Moscow |
 Felix Neureuther
|
 Jean-Baptiste Grange
|
no women's race | |
| 11/21/2009 | Moscow |
 Marcel Hirscher
|
Steve Missillier
|
 Therese Borssén
|
Maria Riesch
|
World cup
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Unprecedented Audi FIS Alpine World Cup promotional event in Moscow. FIS News, September 25, 2008 (English). ( Memento from October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Top slalom specialists confirmed for FIS Alpine Ski Champions Cup in Moscow (RUS). FIS Media Info, October 20, 2009 (PDF, English; 21 kB). ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Moscow delivers a great show. FIS News, November 25, 2009 (English). ( Memento from December 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Pietilä-Holmner cannot be stopped. sport.orf.at, January 2, 2011, accessed on January 2, 2011.
- ^ Alpine: City events in Munich & Moscow, focus on safety. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FIS Newsflash, June 8, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Munich City Event canceled. fisalpine.com, December 24, 2011, accessed December 25, 2011.
- ↑ Because the weather is too mild: Ski World Cup in Munich canceled. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 21, 2013, accessed on December 21, 2013 .
- ^ City Event Rules. Fédération Internationale de Ski, November 20, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .
- ↑ The stage is set for the alpine World Cup 2018/19. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 18, 2018 ; accessed on October 2, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
