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Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line as fast as possible. It is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on earth (The fastest non-motorized sport is speed skydiving, in which divers reach speeds of over 480 km/h.). The current world record is 252.4 km/h (156 mph), held by Simone Origone. Speed skiers regularly exceed 200 km/h (125 mph), which is even faster than the terminal velocity of a free-falling skydiver; about 193 km/h (120 mph) in the belly-to-earth position. Cross-country skiing (skating style) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. ...
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Speed skiers wear dense foam fairings on their lower legs and aerodynamic helmets to increase streamlining. Their ski suits are made from air-tight latex or have a polyurethane coating to cut wind resistance, with only a mandatory back protector to give some protection in the case of a crash. Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with the study of gas flows, first analysed by George Cayley in the 1800s. ...
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A woman in a one-piece ski suit (what could also be called a ski jumpsuit). ...
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The special skis used must be 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) long and maximum 10cm wide with a maximum weight of 15 kg for the pair. ski boots are attached to the skis by bindings. The ski poles are bent to shape around the body, and must be a minimum of 1 m long. A shaped, twin-tip alpine ski. ...
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Ski boots are specialized footwear that are used in skiing to provide a way to attach the skier to skis using ski bindings. ...
In skiing, a ski binding is an attachment which anchors the ski boot to the ski. ...
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Speed skiing is practiced on steep, specially designed courses one kilometer long. There are approximately thirty of these courses world-wide, many of them at high altitudes to minimize air resistance. The first 300 or 400 meters of the course (the launching area) is used to gain speed, the top speed is measured in the next 100 meters and the last 500 m (the run-out area) is used for slowing down and coming to a stop, with the speed being recorded over the 100 m between (the timing zone). The start point in FIS races is chosen so that, in theory, skiers should not exceed 200 km/h, hence competition is aimed at winning a particular event, not breaking world speed records. At Pro [1]races, there is no maximum speed and the speed attained is determined by conditions and safety. A kilometer (Commonwealth spelling: kilometre), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μÎÏ„Ïο (metro) = count/measure). ...
The International Ski Federation/Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) is the main international organisation of ski sports. ...
Speed skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics at Albertville. A demonstration sport is a sport which is played in order to promote itself, most commonly during the Olympic Games, but also at other sporting events. ...
The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1992 in Albertville, France. ...
Albertville is a town and commune in southeast France, in the Savoie département, in the French Alps. ...
Official World Records
The following are the records under the F.S.V. (France Ski de Vitesse, www.kl-france.com) rules. As of April 29, 2005, there were 328 speed skiers who had skied faster than 200 km/h. is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Men Simone Origone (Italy) 240 mi/h; Les Arcs France, April 2006
Disabled men Michael Milton (Australia) 213.65 km/h (132.76 mi/h); April 19, 2006 Michael Milton is an Australian Winter Paralympic skier. ...
Women Sanna Tidstrand (Sweden) 242.59 km/h (150.74 mi/h); Les Arcs France, April 20, 2006 [2]
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The 1992 Winter Olympic Games Speed skiing results. ...
References Ross Anderson is a Native American speed skier. ...
Skiing is the activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings. ...
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