1992 Winter Olympics / speed skiing

At the XVI. 1992 Olympics in Albertville was speed skiing as a demonstration event held. On the high-speed slope in Les Arcs , about 60 km from Albertville, there was a competition for men and women. On the slope, which is extremely steep with a gradient of up to 70% and free of all obstacles, the average speed was measured over a distance of 100 m between two light barriers. The speed determined by the French winner Michael Prufer from two runs was 229.299 km / h and thus meant a world record . He beat his own record from 1988 by 5.558 km / h. Tarja Mulari from Finland also set a new world record with 219.245 km / h (old WR: 214.723 km / h). However, the competition was overshadowed by a fatal accident involving Swiss racing driver Nicolas Bochatay , who collided with a snowcat on a public ski slope.

Men

space	country	athlete	speed
1	FRA	Michael Prufer	229.299 km / h
2	FRA	Philippe Goitschel	228.717 km / h
3	United States	Jeffrey Hamilton	226.700 km / h
4th	FRA	Laurent Sistach	225,000 km / h
5	FRA	Claude Basile	223.464 km / h
6th	TCH	Petr Kakes	223.325 km / h
7th	United States	James Morgan	222.910 km / h
8th	AUT	Franz Weber	222.222 km / h
9	SUI	Silvano Meli	222.085 km / h
...	...	...	...
12	AUT	Gerhard Pottler	221.266 km / h
18th	SUI	Roger Stump	214.925 km / h
18th	SUI	Pierre-Yves Jorand	214.669 km / h
18th	SUI	Nicolas Bochatay	210.650 km / h
22nd	AUT	Harald Egger	206.304 km / h
29	GER	Florian Maurer	201.794 km / h
32	GER	Christian Zach	194.280 km / h
37	GER	Falk Hess	191.898 km / h
43	GER	Robert Empl	187.110 km / h

Women

space	country	athlete	speed
1	FIN	Tarja Mulari	219.245 km / h
2	NOR	Liss Pettersen	212.892 km / h
3	SUI	Renata Kolarova	210.526 km / h
4th	SWE	Anna Morin	209.790 km / h
5	United States	Melissa Dimino-Simons	203.620 km / h
6th	CAN	Lark Frolek	195.865 km / h
7th	FRA	Françoise Beguin	195.972 km / h
8th	FRA	Jacqueline Blanc	199.115 km / h
...	...	...	...
12	SUI	Marie-Noel Lappert-Estier	193.029 km / h
15th	SUI	Valerie Gomez	190.779 km / h

Web links

• official report of the Winter Games page 567/568 (PDF; 60.9 MB)