Kandahar run in Garmisch
| Kandahar Garmisch | |
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| Place: |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
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| Mountain: | Kreuzeck |
| Kandahar 1 (Downhill women) | |
| Begin: | 1,490 meters |
| Target: | 770 meters |
| Height difference: | 720 meters |
| Route length: | 2,920 m |
| Maximum gradient: | 85% |
| Kandahar 2 (downhill men) | |
| Begin: | 1,690 meters |
| Target: | 770 meters |
| Height difference: | 920 meters |
| Route length: | 3,330 m |
| Maximum gradient: | 92% / approx. 41 ° |
The Kandahar slope Garmisch is a downhill route in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district of Garmisch. It is considered to be one of the most demanding race tracks in the Alpine Ski World Cup .
The descent got its name as one of the five venues for the Arlberg-Kandahar race , which in turn is named after Frederick Roberts , the Earl of Kandahar .
history
The British Colonel Frederick Roberts commanded the successful relief of the British-Indian troops besieged in Kandahar in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879 . When he was raised to the status of a peer in 1892 , his achievements in Afghanistan were reflected in the title "Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford". In 1911, Roberts, who had meanwhile been promoted to field marshal, donated a trophy for a ski race called "Challenge Roberts of Kandahar". The race was held in St. Anton am Arlberg , Austria, in the 1920s and later reached Garmisch via detours.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been the venue for the traditional Arlberg-Kandahar races since 1954. For the first time as part of the World Cup, the Garmisch Kandahar races took place in 1969/1970 . At the 1978 World Championships , Sepp Walcher won the gold medal on the Kandahar route in the downhill ahead of Michael Veith and Werner Grissmann .
The Austrian racer Ulrike Maier had a fatal accident on the 1994 World Cup descent. Since then, there have been no more women's runs on the Kandahar until the route was rebuilt in 2008 and adapted to the current safety standards of the FIS . The routes for women and men are now largely on different routes, but end in the same destination stadium.
At the 2010 World Cup finals and at the 2011 World Championships , all competitions, with the exception of the slaloms that took place on the Gudiberg, were held on the Kandahar slope. As the most successful athlete in these championships , Elisabeth Görgl won two gold medals, in the Super-G and in the downhill.
Like the Gudiberg, the Kandahar was part of Munich's application for the 2018 Winter Olympics .
Routing
Ladies
The Kandahar 1 starts on the Tröglhang at 1490 meters above sea level and leads largely over the old men's route: After the Schußanger with its two curves, there is a jump into heaven , where the start of the Super-G is located. The Waldeck with the highest gradient on the women's route is a technically demanding traverse. Here, where the giant slalom starts, a new route has started since the adaptations in 2008: The ice slope is bypassed via the Ramwiesen , and via the Höllentor it goes back to the original Kandahar into hell , a steep slope. This is followed by the FIS aisle , a diagonal drive which, after a left turn, joins the men's route shortly before the Tauber-Schuss .
The women's run is 2920 meters long. The first winner on the new route, Maria Riesch from Partenkirchen, mastered the descent at the 2010 World Cup finals in a time of 1: 34.82 minutes. At the 2011 World Championships, Elisabeth Görgl's winning time was 1: 47.24 minutes.
Men's
The start of the descent on Kandahar 2 is on Kreuzjoch at 1690 meters above sea level. Up to the soul , an S-curve, the drivers accelerate from 0 to over 100 km / h in a few seconds. After the Tröglhang , which was the steepest section until the renovation in 2008, the descent has been following a new route since 2009, which initially leads over the elongated Olympic curve and the panorama jump . The start of the Super-G is located in the adjacent Stegerwald . Then comes the Alte Quelle before the route at Bödele joins the original Kandahar again. The start of the giant slalom is above the ice slope . After the cable car jump with jumps of 40 to 60 meters the racers turn right into the second redesigned part of Kandahar from which begins with another leap: The Kramer jump goes towards Kramer between 20 and 40 meters. The next section is called Padöls and, after a long left bend around a cable car pillar of the Kreuzeck cable car, flows into the flatter passage Auf der Mauer . This is followed by the free fall , the steepest point in the entire World Cup since 2009 with a gradient of 92%. It can already be seen from the target. At the end of the slope, the route leads to the original target section of the Kandahar, which begins with the Tauber shot and at the end leads over the approx. 20 meter wide target jump.
The descent is 3330 meters long. At the 2010 World Cup final, the full length was ridden for the first time, with the winner Carlo Janka from Switzerland achieving a running time of 1: 58.45 minutes. On his way to the world championship title, Erik Guay from Canada improved the record to 1: 58.41 minutes.
In the following years, freak weather prevented a race over the full distance. In 2012 the descent was shortened on Kandahar 1 . In 2013 and 2015 the race took place on the shortened Kandahar 2 . In 2014 the races were moved to St. Moritz due to lack of snow . In 2016, the descent started at the original men's start, but ran from the Tröglhang on Kandahar 1 .
In 2017, the descent included the parts of the route Schusshanger and Himmelreich , which are located on Kandahar 1 . The Panorama-Sprung , Stegerwald and Alte Quelle passages were therefore not part of the race. This is also the reason why Travis Ganong from the United States was more than 4 seconds faster than the track record from 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Why is the Kandahar called Kandahar? , FAZ from February 9, 2011
- ↑ Length see on the side lines of Kandahar Web page of the Ski Club Garmisch, accessed on February 1, 2020
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 15 ″ N , 11 ° 3 ′ 47 ″ E
Competition venues for the 1936 Winter Olympics
