Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 were held in Bormio

Bormio

Bormio is a town and comune located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. It has a population of 4,200...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, between January 28 and February 13, 2005

2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup

The 39th World Cup season began in October 2004 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded in March 2005 at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The overall winners were Bode Miller of the U.S. and Anja Pärson of Sweden....

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The women's competition was held in neighboring Santa Caterina

Santa Caterina di Valfurva

Santa Caterina di Valfurva is a frazione of the comune of Valfurva, in the northern Italian province of Sondrio. It is home to a popular ski resort, with many FIS World Cups races taking place in the resort. Santa Caterina hosted the 2005 World Ski Championships. The highest point of the resort is...

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Bormio previously hosted the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 1985

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 were held in Bormio, northern Italy between January 31 and February 10, 1985.These were the first world championships held in an odd-numbered year, and the last without the Super-G event....

. Other host cities for the world championships in Italy

Italy

include Cortina d'Ampezzo

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene...

(1932, 1941 (unofficial), and 1956

Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, the six alpine skiing events were held from Friday, January 27 to Friday, February 3, 1956.Toni Sailer of Austria won all three men's events to become the first alpine ski racer to win three gold medals in a single Olympics...

(Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

)), Val Gardena (1970

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1970

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1970 were held in Gröden/Val Gardena, Italy, from February 8-15, 1970.For the only time, results from the World Championships were included in the World Cup points standings, then in its fourth season.-External links:...

), and Sestriere

Sestriere

Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune of the Province of Turin. It is from the French border. Its name derives from Latin: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin....

(1997

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997 were held in Sestriere, northwestern Italy, from February 3-15, 1997.Nine years later, the area would later host the alpine events for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.-Medals table:...

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In northern

Northern Italy

Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...

Italy, Bormio is a regular stop on the World Cup circuit, usually for a men's downhill in late December. The Pista Stelvio is among the longest and most challenging downhill courses in the world, with a vertical drop exceeding 1000 m (3280 ft.).

These were the last world championships to use the traditional combined

Alpine skiing combined

Combined is an alpine skiing event. Although not technically a discipline of its own, it is sometimes referred to as a fifth alpine discipline, along with downhill, super G, giant slalom, and slalom.-Traditional & Super-Combined:...

(K) format (one downhill run and two slalom

Slalom skiing

Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.- Origins :...

runs). Starting in 2007, the world championships switched to the "super-combined" (SC) format (one run each of downhill & slalom) for the combined event. First run on the World Cup

Alpine skiing World Cup

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 which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France and the USA...

circuit in 2005

2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup

at Wengen

Lauberhorn

The Lauberhorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, located between Wengen and Grindelwald. Its summit is at an elevation of 8110 feet above sea level....

, the "super-combi" format made its debut at the Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948–80, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years...

in 2010

Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at Whistler Creekside in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The ten events were scheduled for February 13–27, 2010; weather delayed the first event, the men's downhill, two days until Monday, February 15....

Nations' Team Award

Date: February 13

This competition was held for the first time in these world championships. Six athletes of a country, including at least two men and two women, start in a total of four super G and four slalom runs. Each country sends one athlete into each run, men's and women's runs taking turns. The placings of all eight competitions are added and the country with the lowest number wins. If an athlete doesn't finish a run, the country receives 9 points.

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| align="left" | Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer

Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer

Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer is a German alpine skier.She represented Germany at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics. She also won a gold medal in team competition at FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005. In World Cup she has 6 podiums.- External links :* - Data Profile - Monika Bergmann...

, Andreas Ertl, Martina Ertl

Martina Ertl

Martina Ertl-Renz is a German former alpine skier. She won several medals at Olympic Winter Games and World Championships.-Skiing career:Ertl started skiing at the age of two and a half...

, Florian Eckert, Hilde Gerg

Hilde Gerg

Mathilde Gerg is a German former alpine skier.She was Olympic Champion at on several medals at 1998 Winter Olympics; at the World Championships she was bronze medallist in Combined and Super-G at Sestriere 1997, Bronze medallist in Super-G at St...

, Felix Neureuther

Felix Neureuther

Felix Neureuther is a German alpine ski racer on the World Cup circuit.Neureuther was born at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria...

Nicole Hosp

Nicole Hosp is a professional alpine skier from Austria, and the winner of the overall 2006–7 World Cup along with the giant slalom World Cup...

, Renate Götschl

Renate Götschl

Renate Götschl is a former champion alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined and downhill , and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals...

, Benjamin Raich

Benjamin Raich

Benjamin Raich is a champion alpine ski racer who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, Italy...

, Rainer Schönfelder

Rainer Schönfelder

Rainer Schönfelder is an Austrian skier who won the 2003-2004 men's World Cup slalom title.-Career:Born in Bleiburg, Carinthia, Austria, Schönfelder made his debut in the 1995-1996 season, finishing 115th in the overall rankings...

, Michael Walchhofer

Michael Walchhofer

Michael Walchhofer is a former Austrian alpine ski racer. He started his career in slalom, but then moved over to the speed events. During his career he won the downhill world cup three times, one silver medal at Olympics Games, and one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at World Ski...

, Kathrin Zettel

Kathrin Zettel

Kathrin Zettel is an Austrian alpine skier from Göstling, Lower Austria. A specialist of Slalom and Giant Slalom, she won her first World Cup race on 25 November 2006.-World Cup victories:-External links:*...

Pierrick Bourgeat

Pierrick Bourgeat is a French alpine skier.He was born in Grenoble.Bourgeat represented France at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He also won a bronze medal in team competition at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005....

, Ingrid Jacquemod

Ingrid Jacquemod

Ingrid Jacquemod is a French alpine skier who grew up in Val d'Isère. She has appeared in 2 Winter Olympics, in 2002 and 2006.-Olympics results:2006*Downhill - 16th*Super G - 32nd*Giant Slalom - 21st...

, Carole Montillet

Carole Montillet

Carole Montillet-Carles is a French alpine skier.-Career:Born in Corrençon-en-Vercors, Isère, she became a member of the Villard de Lans ski club in Grenoble...

, Christel Pascal, Laure Péquegnot

Laure Pequegnot

Laure Pequegnot is a former French Alpine skier.She was born in Échirolles, Isère. She won a total of 3 Alpine skiing World Cup races, all in the slalom discipline...

, Jean-Pierre Vidal

Jean-Pierre Vidal

Jean-Pierre Vidal is a French alpine skier.As a young skier, he focused mainly on downhill. After hurting his knee, however, he decided to go for slalom...

Lindsey Kildow

Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team.She has won three consecutive overall World Cup and downhill championships , the first American woman and third woman ever to accomplish this...

, Ted Ligety

Ted Ligety

Theodore Sharp "Ted" Ligety is a champion alpine ski racer from the United States. He was the 2006 Olympic gold medalist in combined and the three-time World Cup champion in giant slalom . Ligety won the gold medal in the giant slalom at the 2011 World Championships...

, Julia Mancuso

Julia Mancuso

Julia Mancuso is an alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team. She was the gold medalist in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the silver medalist in both downhill and combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She has also won four medals at the World Championships and five races in...

, Bode Miller

Bode Miller

Samuel Bode Miller is an American alpine ski racer. He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and is generally considered the greatest American alpine skier of all time...

, Daron Rahlves

Daron Rahlves

Daron Louis Rahlves is an American freestyle skier and a former alpine ski racer. Raised in northern California, he attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California...

, Sarah Schleper

Sarah Schleper

Sarah Schleper is an American alpine skier who has competed since 1995. Her lone World Cup victory was at a slalom event in Switzerland in 2005....

Brigitte Acton

Brigitte Acton is a Canadian alpine skier. Acton competed at the 2006 Winter Games, where she finished 11th in the giant slalom, 17th in the slalom, and 10th in the combined...

, Patrick Biggs

Patrick Biggs

Patrick Biggs is a Canadian alpine skier.Biggs has twice finished in the top 10 in the slalom at World Cup events, both in 2005 and has won multiple medals at the Canadian championships in slalom. He participated in the 2006 Olympics, finishing 10th in the first run, but failing to finish the second...

, François Bourque

François Bourque

François Bourque is a Canadian alpine skier.François Bourque Began his national debut in 2002. Bourque won the super-G event at the 2003 Junior World Championships and the combined event at the 2004 Junior World Championships. In the 2005 season, he picked up a third place finish in the super-G in...

, Emily Brydon

Emily Brydon

Emily Brydon is a former Canadian alpine skier. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics and won her first World Cup race, a downhill, in February 2008 at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Her coachs are Heinzpeter Platter, Rob Boyd, and Brett Zagozewski...

, Thomas Grandi

Thomas Grandi

Thomas Grandi is a retired Canadian alpine skier. He specialized in technical skiing giant slalom and slalom.-Skiing career:...

, Erik Guay

Erik Guay

Erik Guay is a Canadian alpine skier from Mont-Tremblant, Québec. Guay is best known winning the discipline trophy in Super G during the 2010 World Cup season and for winning the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011.- Career :Erik Guay was five when he competed in his first...

Daniel Albrecht

Daniel Albrecht is a champion alpine ski racer. He has four World Cup race victories and a world championship.Albrecht made his World Cup debut at age 19 in January 2003 in a slalom at Schladming, Austria....

, Fränzi Aufdenblatten

Fränzi Aufdenblatten

Fränzi Aufdenblatten is a Swiss alpine skier.-World Cup victories:-External links:* official site*...

, Didier Défago

Didier Défago

Didier Défago is analpine ski racer on the World Cup circuit. He was Swiss national champion in downhill and Giant Slalom...

, Sonja Nef

Sonja Nef

Sonja Nef is a Swiss former alpine skier. Nef was women's World Champion in Giant Slalom in 2001. She won the 2001 and 2002 World Cup in Giant Slalom...

, Nadia Styger

Nadia Styger

Nadia Styger is a Swiss alpine skier.Styger won a total of 4 Alpine Skiing World Cup races. She was several times Swiss champion in Downhill and Super-G.-World Cup victories:-External links:* * on NamePedia...

, Silvan Zurbriggen

Silvan Zurbriggen

Silvan Zurbriggen is a Swiss alpine skier and a distant cousin of Pirmin Zurbriggen.He was born in Brig, Valais...

Therese Borssén

Therese Borssén, in Rättvik, is a Swedish skier specialized in slalom. Her first World Cup win came in Semmering, on 29 December 2006. She resides in Rättvik and Stockholm....

, Janette Hargin, Patrik Järbyn

Patrik Järbyn

Patrik Järbyn is a World Cup alpine ski racer.Despite never having won a World Cup race, Järbyn has two individual World Championship medals. At the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, he won the silver medal in super G...

, Markus Larsson

Markus Larsson

Markus Larsson is a Swedish alpine skier who took part in the Winter Olympics in 2010 in Vancouver.-World Cup victories:- External links :*...

, André Myhrer

André Myhrer

André Myhrer is a Swedish alpine skier. He has competed in the Alpine skiing World Cup, finishing 34th overall in 2005. Myhrer won the 2007 slalom race at Beaver Creek. Myhrer also represented Sweden at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing fourth in the slalom...

, Anja Pärson

Anja Pärson

Anja Sofia Tess Pärson is a Swedish-Sámi alpine skier, the winner of seven World Championships gold medals and two Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles. She has won a total of 42 World cup races.-Biography:...

Chiara Costazza

Chiara Costazza is an Italian Alpine skier.She was born in Cavalese, Trentino, and resides in Pozza di Fassa. She won her first World Cup race, a slalom, in December 2007 at Lienz, Austria. She competed at the 2006 and 2010 in the slalom event.-World Cup victories:-References:...

, Nadia Fanchini

Nadia Fanchini

Nadia Fanchini is an Italian alpine skier. She was born and lives in Val Camonica. She is the sister of Elena Fanchini, also an alpine skier....

, Peter Fill

Peter Fill

Peter Fill is an Italian alpine skier.-World Cup victories:- Career :Peter Fill is an all-round skier. In the 2006/2007 season he was the first Italian athlete since Alberto Tomba in the leaders of the Ski World Cup.At the age of 3 years old, he learned to ski with his first teacher Frieda Senoner...

, Manfred Mölgg, Karen Putzer

Karen Putzer

Karen Putzer is an Italian alpine skier.She was born in Bolzano, Italy. A specialist of Giant Slalom and Super-G, she won a total of eight World Cup victories, arriving second in the overall classment in the 2002-2003 season behind Janica Kostelić...

, Giorgio Rocca

Giorgio Rocca

Giorgio Rocca is an Italian Alpine skier, a specialist in Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is one of three skiers to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slaloms in a row, which he achieved in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto Tomba has won more World Cup...

Mitja Dragšič

Mitja Dragšič, , is a Slovenian alpine skier, specialized in slalom.Dragšič represented Slovenia at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics. His best result in the Alpine skiing World Cup are two 4th places, both in slalom....

, Aleš Gorza

Aleš Gorza

Aleš Gorza is a Slovenian alpine skier.Gorza represented Slovenia at the 2006 Winter Olympics. His World Cup debut was on December 21, 2001 in Kranjska Gora. His best results so far are two 3rd places in Super-G, won in Whistler, British Columbia and in Bormio, Italy, in 2008.- References :...

, Jure Košir

Jure Košir

Jure Košir is a Slovenian former alpine skier.-Career:Košir's first international success was the title of the world junior champion in super G, won in Hemsedal in 1991. Later he focused in technical disciplines, esp. slalom and made quick progress, noticed also by his good friend, Italian...

, Tina Maze

Tina Maze

Tina Maze is a renowned Slovenian alpine ski racer. She is the current world champion in giant slalom.Maze first competed in the 2001 World Championships at age 17 and in the 2002 Winter Olympics the following year. She started her career as a giant slalom specialist but later expanded and...

, Urška Rabić, Andrej Šporn

Andrej Šporn

Andrej Šporn is a Slovenian alpine skier.Šporn began his career as a competitor in slalom, though he had always shown great talent in both fast disciplines - the downhill and Super-G and is also good in giant slalom. He has been a successful competitor since early age, having won competitions in...

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Nations' Team Award

Medals Table