Browsing entries tagged with World Cup
13 Nov 2019
The organisers of one of ski racing’s most famous races, the Hahnenkamm, have announced a record prize fund for next year’s event — the 80th anniversary. The Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel will…
1 Aug 2018
Summer Ski Jumping World Cup to take place on the 10th and 11th of August The Summer Ski Jumping World Cup is set to visit Courchevel over the weekend of the 10th and 11th August. The women competitors…
27 Jul 2018
The International Olympic Committee recently confirmed that Ski Big Air will be included within the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games programme. British Ski & Snowboard welcomed the decision and Team…
10 Jan 2018
The Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel is counting down until the start of its famous Hahnenkamm downhill races — which start next week. This year will be the 78th time the Hahnenkamm — probably the…
2 Jun 2017
The International Ski Federation (FIS) is considering dropping the super combined from the World Cup Alpine skiing schedule. Following its spring meeting in Portoroz Slovenia during the last week of May,…
21 Mar 2017
Slalom skier Dave Ryding has finished the season ranked eighth in the world after a successful last race in Aspen, Colorado and has said he is “very confident” of the future of the British team. The…
3 Mar 2017
Skier Isabel Atkin has this afternoon become the first British woman to win a Ski Slopestyle World Cup — at the Swiss ski resort of Corvatsch. GB Park and Pipe skier Izzy Atkin, 18, put on an unbeatable…
7 Feb 2017
Snowsport England has been given funding of more than £1 million to support up-and-coming athletes over the next four years. The funding, from Sport England, will go into fostering current talented…
22 Jan 2017
Britain’s Dave Ryding has taken second place in the Kitzbühel Slalom World Cup. He lead the standings after the first round but was eventually pipped to the post by Marcel Hirscher of Austria. Dave…
21 Jan 2017
Last year, Max Verstappen drove a Formula 1 car on a ski slope in Kitzbühel to celebrate the start of the Hahnenkamm ski race — and this year it was the turn of Spanish Grand Pris motorcycle rider Marc…
19 Jan 2017
Conditions are set to be perfect for this weekend’s Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel — with two days of training runs on the Streif complete. Last weekend, world cup downhill racing had to be cancelled on…
3 Feb 2016
The first Winter Olympic test events will be held this week in South Korea, two years ahead of PyeongChang 2018. The men’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup events will take place in Jeongseon over the weekend,…
16 Feb 2015
Flying on skis took on a new meaning at the weekend, when the men’s ski jump world record was broken twice in two days. The previous world record, for a jump of 246.5m was set in 2011 by Norway’s…
22 Dec 2014
With Christmas week upon us, the good news is that Santa might well bring us some snow. While there are great conditions in Scandinavia — heavy snow forced the closure of Fagernes airport in Norway last…
8 Dec 2014
After two years of rehab and two major knee operations, American skier Lindsey Vonn won her 60th World Cup race last weekend — describing it as a “dream day”. Vonn, who turned 30 this year, won the…
4 Dec 2014
Some some significant snow is in the offing over the next week or so in the Alps, says WTSS weather expert Fraser Wilkin, founder of Weather to Ski, so try not to panic about the snow conditions. Images…
25 Mar 2014
Chemmy Alcott has announced her retirement from competitive skiing. Alcott, 31, is Britain’s most successful alpine skier, despite battling serious injury in the latter stages of her career. This…
6 Jan 2014
Just a month ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics, freeskier Rowan Cheshire has won gold in a halfpipe FIS World Cup event in Calgary. The 18-year-old freeskier is the first ever British woman to win the…
6 Nov 2013
The ski resort of Sierra Nevada in Spain is building nine new features to its huge Sulayr snowpark, which it claims will give the park the longest line in Europe. When the season opens on 30 November,…
23 Sep 2013
Over the past two weeks we’ve had reports of snow falling in the Alps — and last weekend the Stubai Glacier and Rettenbach Glacier (Sölden) opened in the Tirol, Austria, meaning that all five of…
28 Aug 2013
Skier Chemmy Alcott has broken her leg training. It is yet another setback for the 31-year-old whose career has been dogged by injury — but she maintains she will still race in the 2014 Sochi Winter…
22 Aug 2013
Details of the first ever Olympic slopestyle course have been released by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The course, for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games (7-23 February 2014), will be 635m…
15 Apr 2013
Speed skiers have descended on Verbier this week in the hope of beating the current world record. All of this week, the world’s fastest skiers will be racing in the XSPeedSki, on a 60° slope running…
27 Mar 2013
British snowboarder Billy Morgan says he is “stoked” to have won his first World Cup medal — bronze in slopestyle at the finals in Sierra Nevada, Spain, last weekend. The 23-year-old from Southampton…
11 Feb 2013
British women’s skiing suffered dramatic highs and lows this weekend, with an historic podium win in slopestyle by Katie Summerhayes and the withdrawal of Chemmy Alcott from the World Ski Championships.…
28 Jan 2013
Britain’s best slopestyle skier, James “Woodsy” Woods, is continuing his brilliant season with a bronze at the X-Games in Aspen. Nicknamed the “fridge kid” because he learned to ski on an indoor…
25 Jan 2013
French skier Johan Clarey has broken the downhill ski speed record of 100mph, during a World Cup race in Wengen. The 32-year-old skier, who eventually finished fifth in the FIS World Cup event last weekend,…
15 Jan 2013
British skier James Woods has won a second slopestyle ski World Cup. James “Woodsy” Woods, 20, from Sheffield, has won the FIS US Freeskiing Grand Prix in Copper Mountain, Colorado — a qualifier…
7 Nov 2012
World number one women’s ski racer Lindsey Vonn has been denied the chance to race against men in Canada later this month. In early October, Lindsey put forward a request to the International Ski Federation…
28 Oct 2012
Winter has arrived in ski resorts across Europe and North America. While we were digging out our winter coats in the UK this weekend, snow started to fall across the Alps. It’s dumping in Verbier, Tignes,…
16 Oct 2012
One of Britain’s most successful ski racers, Noel Baxter, has retired from international competition. He cites the withdrawal of funding from the British ski team in 2010 as a major factor. Mr Baxter,…
10 Oct 2012
Olympic ski racer Lindsey Vonn wants to becomethe first woman to race against men in a World Cup downhill, next month in Canada. “I’d like to have one chance in my life to race against them,” said…
10 Mar 2012
Canadian skicross member Nick Zoricic has died in a fall at a World Cup event in Switzerland. The 29-year-old skier suffered fatal head injuries in the crash at Grindelwald, where he was one of three skiers…
14 Feb 2011
It was a better performance from Vonn and a secure win from Svindal, as more World Championship competitions were fought for and won in Germany on Sunday and Monday. Lyndsey Vonn came back from a few disappointing…
13 Sep 2010
It has been snowing in Sölden today, Monday 13 September, and the race is on to get new developments completed before winter arrives properly. This year that includes a modern new gondola and a new shuttle…
12 Mar 2010
It has been decided: Lyndsey Vonn is the overall Alpine World Cup champion for 2010, with a fabulous win in the super-G race on Friday. Vonn has stormed her way through the super-G to finish with a time…
12 Mar 2010
The Alpine World Cup final races are being decided in Garmisch-Partenkirchen this weekend, and the gap for the overall titles has narrowed in both the women’s and men’s events. American Lyndsey Vonn’s…
11 Mar 2010
The World’s leading mogul skiers are gathering in Åre, Sweden for the bumps’ showdown – the FIS Freestyle World Cup Finals (12-13 March). After a thrilling display in Vancouver, the series is moving…
10 Mar 2010
Carlo Janka of Switzerland is in a strong position to take the men’s overall World Cup title, having won the downhill race in Garmishch Partenkirchen on Wednesday. Janka stormed the Kandahar in a…
8 Mar 2010
Lyndsey Vonn looks set to take the overall World Cup women’s title, with another win in downhill that puts her way ahead in the points rankings. The women’s downhill and super-G events took place in…
5 Mar 2010
Fresh from the Olympics, the World Cup racing resumes this weekend with the ladies series in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. The racers are in action on the Nationale downhill course, a long and steepish red…
4 Feb 2010
The best of British snowboarders have been outperforming their rivals in three different disciplines around the globe. Three of our leading snowboarders have won medals this week in freeriding, half-pipe…
30 Jan 2010
The men’s World Cup racing series has been taking place in Kranjska Gora this weekend, with double action from the 49th Vitranc World Cup and the Adelboden giant slalom race – rescheduled to Slovenia…
18 Jan 2010
Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the 2010 Lauberhorn downhill race, in another classic weekend of World Cup racing. A crowd of 30,000 turned out to watch the famous Wengen race, celebrating its 80th year…
15 Jan 2010
Bode Miller has won the first of the World Cup races in Wengen on Friday 15 January, taking the super-combined title. The win was Miller’s first victory since 2008 and puts him back on form for Vancouver.…
12 Jan 2010
With just one month to go until the Winter Olympics, ski-racing action is about to hot up with another classic: the Lauberhorn. All eyes will be on Wengen in Switzerland this weekend, 15-17 January, as…
9 Jan 2010
Thickening fog and snow showers have forced officials in Adelboden to cancel the men’s World Cup giant slalom. The International Ski Federation called off Saturday’s (8 Jan) race part way through the…
4 Jan 2010
The Audi FIS Ski World Cup moves to Adelboden on 9/10 January, and one of the circuit’s steepest slalom courses – the Chuenusbärgli. The men’s slalom and giant slalom races will take place in…
29 Dec 2009
Slovenian Andrej Jerman has won the men’s downhill in Bormio, claiming his first World Cup victory for three years. Jerman raced into first position in 2 minutes, 0.32 seconds – 0.44 seconds ahead…
28 Dec 2009
The International Ski Federation will be using Bormio’s World Cup event as a testing ground for new safety gates. The new gates feature flags that tear apart on impact and are designed to minimise collision…
23 Dec 2009
Snow is expected to fall over the next few days in Bormio, with clear, colder weather to follow in time for the men’s World Cup downhill races on Tuesday 29 December – pretty much an ideal arrangement.…
20 Dec 2009
Selva Val Gardena hosted the men’s downhill and super-G races this weekend – and the Italian resort didn’t disappoint: there were top performances on the Saslong run, which this winter is also celebrating…
20 Dec 2009
It has been an eventful weekend for the World Cup women’s races in Val d’Isère: Saturday’s races were cancelled, then a serious crash delayed Sunday’s super-G race. Sunday’s race was interrupted…
14 Dec 2009
With impressive performances from the young Marcel Hirscher and Olympic gold winner Benni Raich, the Austrian team dominated the men’s racing this weekend in Val d’Isère. Sunday’s GS…
11 Dec 2009
Friday dawned crisp and clear in Val d’Isère, giving a perfect start to the 54th Critérium de la Première Neige – the event that signals the arrival of the World Cup circus in the Alps, after…
29 Nov 2009
Aspen’s technical downhill course didn’t faze Kathrin Hoelzl of Germany, when she skied to victory in the women’s giant slalom there on Saturday 28 November. Hoelzl 25 had an excellent first run…
20 Nov 2009
When the International racing teams hit the slopes in Panorama Mountain Village shortly, they are in for a treat: bucket loads of the white stuff. Although the Canadian racing teams have been in training…
5 Nov 2009
The world’s leading snowboarders are in action in Saas Fee this week for the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup – at least they are trying to be in between the recent snowfall. The main events started Thursday…
24 Oct 2009
Swiss veteran Didier Cuche has raced to victory in Sölden, in the men’s opening World Cup race of the season. Cuche 35 won the giant slalom on the Rettenbach glacier in combined two-race time of 21.45…
19 Oct 2009
The season opening FIS World Cup event in Sölden will go ahead as planned on 24/25 October. A couple of weeks ago the FIS Alpine World Championships in Sölden looked doubtful, with low snow depths…
14 Oct 2009
World Cup and Olympic ski champion Hermann Maier has announced his retirement from the sport, citing physical problems as the reason. The Austrian broke the news at a press conference in Vienna, ending…
18 Jun 2009
Lenzerheide in eastern Switzerland will host the 2013 Alpine World Cup finals, according to an FIS announcement.The FIS council made the decision in its recent meeting in Vancouver, Canada, where they…
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