Planai (ski slope)
| Planai | |
 Night slalom 2005 |
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| place |
 Schladming
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| mountain | Planai |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 22 '3 " N , 13 ° 43' 34" E |
| slalom | |
|---|---|
| begin | 962 m |
| target | 746 m |
| Height difference | 216 m |
| Departure | |
| begin | 1753 m |
| target | 746 m |
| Height difference | 1007 m |
The Planai ski run is located on the mountain of the same name in Schladming in Austria . It is a downhill and super G slope, in the lower section of which, the finish slope, slaloms are also held. The slope is currently the scene of a men's slalom in the Alpine Ski World Cup , which has been held annually under floodlights since 1997 under the name "The Nightrace" . With up to 50,000 spectators, the Schladming slaloms are the world cup races with the largest audience. In 2013 , as in 1982 , the Planai hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships . For this occasion, the finish stadium, located in the immediate vicinity of the city center, was rebuilt and expanded. As a dress rehearsal for the world championships, the 2012 World Cup final took place in Schladming. Another well-known descent on the Planai is the Streicher .
history
In 1953 the first drag lift was built on the summit of the Planai. In 1964 the construction of a toll road began and parallel to it the construction of ski runs. The FIS run was completed in 1966. The women's European Cup races were held on it for the first time in December 1971 . On December 22, 1973, the first World Cup race was held on the Planai with a men's downhill race. The winner, Franz Klammer, mastered the 3145-meter-long route in front of around 15,000 spectators at an average speed of 111.22 kilometers per hour and thus reached the highest average speed in a World Cup descent to date. Previously, the highest average speed was 108.31 kilometers per hour, achieved on March 15, 1972 by Bernhard Russi on the Saslong in Val Gardena . From 1975 the start was at an altitude of 1754 meters and the route had a length of about 3450 meters. She continued to have the highest average speed in the World Cup.
Hansi Hinterseer won the first slalom on the Planai on December 21, 1975, and Ingemar Stenmark won the first giant slalom on December 9, 1978 . The downhill route had to be shortened by 615 meters in December 1978 due to bad weather. A year later, the World Cup downhill run on December 22, 1979 was canceled after 28 runners due to poor visibility and not counted. In the following year the organizers had no luck with the weather either: After the giant slalom could still be held according to plan, the downhill run scheduled for February 7, 1981 had to be canceled after a day's postponement. For the World Cup descent on New Year's Eve 1985, 35,000 tickets have already been sold. In the next year, however, the New Year's Eve descent had to be canceled a week earlier due to lack of snow and warm temperatures. The only World Cup race for women, a Super-G on November 26, 1988, was won by the French Carole Merle . Schladming stepped in as a replacement location for Les Menuires , which could not host the Super-Gs. The last World Cup run on the Planai for the time being was held in 1990 .
Between 1991 and 1995 races of the US Pro-Ski Tour took place on the Planai . In 1997 the Junior World Championship was held on the Planai. In the same year, after a seven-year break, the World Cup circus returned to Schladming with the Night Race . The record winners in World Cup races are Benjamin Raich , Marcel Hirscher and Henrik Kristoffersen with four wins, Raich and Kristoffersen won four times in slalom, Hirscher three times in slalom and once in giant slalom. In 1998 and 1999, men's Super-Gs were also held, from 2000 only the night slalom, which has always been held on the Tuesday after the Hahnenkamm races since 2001 . On the occasion of the 2012 World Cup final, races in all disciplines - both for men and women - were held on the Planai for the first time.
In 2017, the television film Steirerkind from the rural crime film series was shot around the Nightrace .
Winner list of all World Cup and World Cup races
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Milestones ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. www.planai.at, accessed on May 9, 2010
- ↑ Klammer's triumph on ice parquet . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Grissmann trumps non-stop . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ A debacle! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 11, 1978, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ The racers outraged . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1979, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ "That was Klammer's revenge" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 9, 1981, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Peter's perfect triple . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 2, 1986, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Planai descent without fall rooms . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1987, p. 25 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Kitzbühel is waiting for snow . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 28, 1987, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ World Cup start in Schladming . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 21, 1988, p. 25 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ “Steirerkind” as a prelude to the second ORF country crime series . Retrieved on January 21, 2018.
