FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
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top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions
Key facts
- Genre
- Alpine skiing
- Locations
- Europe and North America ; occasionally in Japan , Russia , Australia , Argentina , South Korea , New Zealand
- Inaugurated
- 5 January 1967 ( 1967-01-05 ) (men) , 7 January 1967 ( 1967-01-07 ) (women)
- Founders
- Serge Lang , Honore Bonnet, Bob Beattie
- Organised by
- International Ski Federation , (FIS)
- People
- Chief Race Directors , Markus Waldner (M) , Peter Gerdol (W)
- Sponsor
- Audi Quattro
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- world cup
- Has part
- 1985 Alpine Skiing World Cup
- Founded by
- Serge Lang
- Sport
- alpine skiing
- Official website
- www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing
- Image
- Hahnekammrennen2011.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
- Commons category
- FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
- inception
- 1966-00-00
- event interval
- 1
- topic has template
- Template:FIS Alpine Ski World Cup seasons
- season starts
- October
- different from
- FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
- month of the year
- October
- season ends
- March
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Encyclopedic overview
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts that included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie). It was soon backed by International Ski Federation president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon.
The inaugural World Cup race was held on 5 January 1967 in Berchtesgaden, West Germany, a slalom won by Heinrich Messner of Austria. Jean-Claude Killy of France and Nancy Greene of Canada were the overall winners for the first two seasons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FIS Alpine Ski World Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.