Speed ​​Ski World Cup

The Speed Ski World Cup is an international competition in speed skiing organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS) . The World Cup has been held between January and April every year since 2000. The races take place in Europe and North America.

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Regulations

Classes

Originally there was one class: Speed ​​1 (S1) , which is therefore also known as the classic class . For the 2008 and 2009 seasons, three more classes were introduced: Speed ​​1 Junior , Speed ​​Downhill (SDH, also production class) and Speed ​​Downhill Junior (SDH Junior) . While skiing in the Speed ​​1 class with a special helmet, spoilers, special suit and 240 cm skis, normal downhill equipment was used in the downhill class. In the junior classes, athletes aged 15 to 20 could take part. After the S1 Junior class had only been held for one season, the other two classes became increasingly established. However, since the 2018 season these have no longer been held as World Cup races, but only as FIS races. The classes have also been renamed S2 and S2 Junior . The aim is to emphasize what speed skiing actually is.

mode

The athletes compete against each other on specially prepared slopes. In the World Cup, there is no route inspection like in the alpine competitions, but free training. The race management selects the starting point for the free practice so that 160 km / h cannot be exceeded. The starting point is moved up after each run in order to increase the speed significantly. The first races serve for qualification . The slowest drivers are eliminated. There is also a so-called technical cut, in which unsafe drivers are eliminated. The semi-finals and the finals follow after the race or qualification runs. It starts in the reverse order, so the fastest starts last. In the finals, the highest starting point is used to achieve the fastest speed. This will be counted in the final.

World Cup points system

Up until the 2011 season , different World Cup point systems were used for men and women. The point grid of the Alpine Ski World Cup has been used analogously since 2012 (1st = 100, 2nd = 80, 3rd = 60th, etc.)

Overall winner

The most successful athletes in the Speed ​​Ski World Cup are the American Tracie Sachs , the Swede Sanna Tidstrand with five overall World Cup victories , and the Italian Simone Origone , who won a crystal ball twelve times between 2004 and 2020.

Men

season	S1	S1 junior	SDH	SDH Junior
2002	Philippe May	-	-	-
2003	John Hembel	-	-	-
2004	Simone Origone	-	-	-
2005	Simone Origone	-	-	-
2006	Simone Origone	-	-	-
2007	Simone Origone	-	-	-
2008	Ivan Origone	-	Marc Poncin	-
2009	Simone Origone	Julien Kipfer	Günther Foidl	Charles Edouard Queyras
2010	Simone Origone	-	Günther Foidl	Stefano Bar
2011	Simone Origone	-	Stefano Bar Sebastian Lindblom	Erik Backlund
2012	Klaus scrap hammer	-	Gregory Meichtry	Erik Backlund
2013	Simone Origone	-	Günther Foidl	Erik Backlund
2014	Klaus scrap hammer	-	Jan Farrell	Emmeric Mabit
2015	Ivan Origone	-	Erik Backlund	Robin Portal
2016	Simone Origone	-	Erik Backlund	Kevin Monay
2017	Bastien Montes	-	Gregory Meichtry	Ugo portal
2018	Simone Origone	-	-	-
2019	Simone Origone	-	-	-
2020	Simone Origone	-	-	-
season	S1	S1 junior	SDH	SDH Junior

Women

season	S1	S1 junior	SDH	SDH Junior
2002	Karine Dubouchet Revol	-	-	-
2003	Tracie Sachs	-	-	-
2004	Tracie Sachs	-	-	-
2005	Tracie Sachs	-	-	-
2006	Tracie Sachs	-	-	-
2007	Tracie Sachs	-	-	-
2008	Sanna Tidstrand	-	-	-
2009	Sanna Tidstrand	Lisa Hovland-Uden	Patty minor	Janni Maria Heikkola
2010	Linda Baginski	-	-	Audrey Passet
2011	Sanna Tidstrand	-	-	-
2012	Sanna Tidstrand	-	-	Britta Backlund
2013	Sanna Tidstrand	-	Valentina Greggio	-
2014	Linda Baginski	-	Cornelia Seebacher	Britta Backlund
2015	Valentina Greggio	-	Britta Backlund	Clea Martinez
2016	Valentina Greggio	-	-	Clea Martinez
2017	Valentina Greggio	-	Clea Martinez	Mathilda Persson
2018	Valentina Greggio	-	-	-
2019	Britta Backlund	-	-	-
2020	Britta Backlund	-	-	-
season	S1	S1 junior	SDH	SDH Junior

Venues

The following slopes were homologated for the 2019 Speed ​​Ski World Cup . Possible restrictions can also be found in the table.

→ Main article : List of World Cup locations in speed skiing

place	piste	length	Max. speed	restriction
Andermatt	Russi Run	1050 m
Akureyri	Hradabraut	760 m	170 km / h	Initially only FIS races
Arcs	Aiguille Rouge	1740 m	250 km / h
Bad Mitterndorf	Ski jump	400 m	150 km / h
Erzurum	Every speed	1620 m	230 km / h	Initially only for FIS races
Grimentz	Lona	750 m	190 km / h
Idre fells	Choking	680 m	180 km / h
Morzine	Chamossière	800 m	225 km / h	Homologation not yet completed
Kaunertal	Weißseeferner	1339 m	180 km / h	Initially only FIS races
Kirovsk	BigWoodjavr150	500 m	150 km / h	For FIS races only
	Speed200	700 m	200 km / h	Initially only for FIS races
Pas de la Casa	Riberal	887 m	190 km / h
Halls	Väggen	469 m	190 km / h
Salla	Sallatuntturi	550 m	170 km / h
Sun peaks	Headwall	650 m	180 km / h
Vars	Chabrière	1220 m	250 km / h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Discipline description ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Speed ​​Ski: Important changes in classes for 2018, published on October 10, 2017 , accessed on December 29, 2018
3. ↑ Homologated Tracks Speed ​​Skiing. FIS, accessed on August 9, 2019 . 

Web links

• FIS website for speed skiing
• speed-ski.com: Latest news, biographies, rankings and results (English)
• speedski-info.com: Information and archive about Speedski (English, French)