“I talked to my mum last night and told her I wanted to be first today – and so I did!” Spain’s Albert Ortega was true to his words – and surely did his mother proud – on Monday as he captured gold in the men’s alpine combined at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World […]
Alpine skiers faced their first obstacle of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games on Friday when the Super-G events were postponed due to inclement weather. On Saturday, everything was back on track at Whiteface Mountain, with Jan Zabystran of the Czech Republic and Fabiana Dorigo of Germany making the most of the improved […]
Alpine Skier, Lv Ao (CHN)With the 30th Winter Universiade just months away, student-athletes from all over the world are actively preparing for the opportunity of a lifetime to compete at the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade. All those who are looking forward to this event will gather in Central Switzerland to compete for the top spot […]
· Alpine Skiing Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade will compete on expert-level slopes just across the lake from the athletes’ village · Franz Heinzer Piste will hold Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Alpine combined disciplines · Parallel Mixed Team Event will take place inside the village of Stoos STOOS, SWITZERLAND – “Everybody has a plan until they […]
We enjoy watching sports from home, or from the stadium. But sports is not always as fun as it looks from the outside. Athletes have to go through a lot of hardship before reaching the podium. Sports itself is an adventure, but when you’re into adventure sports, it makes it even more complicated. Alpine […]
Alpine Skiing holds a special place in the Winter Universiade, as it was this discipline that saw the first medal ever awarded in Winter Universiade history. This was back in 1960 in the mountain village of Chamonix, heart of the French Alps. It was there, skiing on home snow just below the jagged and […]
As the part of the Winter Universiade 2019 test events, parallel team competitors took to the slopes for the Russian Cup stage “Tzimik Memorial”, the first that that the FIS-sanctioned, Russian Alpine Skiing Championship took place in Krasnoyarsk. The team from Moscow region won the first prize in the final of the competition in […]
Valery Tsyganov to Krasnoyarsk: ‘You have more opportunities for good sports performance’ The Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade test event in alpine skiing drew in sports leaders, both nationally and globally to personally see the venue, operations and assess the athlete experience first hand. Part of this contingent was the Russian Alpine Ski and […]
