FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1933

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1933 in alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

were held in Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. They began on February 1, 1933.

Men's events

Downhill	Walter Prager Walter Prager Walter Prager was a Swiss alpine skier.At the 1931 World Championship in Mürren, Prager became the first World Champion in downhill skiing. He also won the 1933 downhill championship....	David Zogg David Zogg David Zogg was a Swiss alpine and Nordic combined skier. He was raised in Arosa, Switzerland.At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz he finished 16th in the Nordic combined event....	Hans Hauser
Slalom	Anton Seelos Anton Seelos Anton Seelos was an Austrian alpine skier and world champion.In the 1930s, Seelos invented the Parallel turn and became a world champion in the slalom and alpine combination in 1933, and again in slalom and in combination in 1935.Seelos worked as professional ski instructor, and was therefore not...	Gustav Lantschner Gustav Lantschner Gustav "Guzzi" Lantschner is an Austrian-born German alpine skier turned actor. He competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics....	Fritz Steuri
Combined	Anton Seelos Anton Seelos Anton Seelos was an Austrian alpine skier and world champion.In the 1930s, Seelos invented the Parallel turn and became a world champion in the slalom and alpine combination in 1933, and again in slalom and in combination in 1935.Seelos worked as professional ski instructor, and was therefore not...	Fritz Steuri	Otto Furrer Otto Furrer Otto Furrer was a Swiss alpine skier and cross-country skier and world champion.Furrer was born in Zermatt. He became a world champion in the combined event, received a silver medal in the slalom and a bronze medal in the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1932. He was killed in an accident on the...

Women's events

Downhill	Inge Wersin-Lantschner Inge Wersin-Lantschner Inge Wersin-Lantschner, née Inge Lantschner is an Austrian alpine skier and world champion....	Nini von Arx-Zogg	Gerda Paumgarten Gerda Paumgarten Gerda Gräfin Paumgarten-Hohenschwangau is an Austrian alpine skier and world champion.Paumgarten received a gold medal at the 1936 World Championships in Innsbruck, winning the slalom event....
Slalom	Inge Wersin-Lantschner Inge Wersin-Lantschner Inge Wersin-Lantschner, née Inge Lantschner is an Austrian alpine skier and world champion....	Helena Boughton	Helena Zingg
Combined	Inge Wersin-Lantschner Inge Wersin-Lantschner Inge Wersin-Lantschner, née Inge Lantschner is an Austrian alpine skier and world champion....	Gerda Paumgarten Gerda Paumgarten Gerda Gräfin Paumgarten-Hohenschwangau is an Austrian alpine skier and world champion.Paumgarten received a gold medal at the 1936 World Championships in Innsbruck, winning the slalom event....	Jeanette Kessler Jeanette Kessler Jeanette Anne Kessler was a British alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.In 1936 she finished eighth in the alpine skiing combined event.She married James Riddell in 1959.-External links:*...

Medal table

Key:

1		5	2	2	9
2		1	3	3	7
3		0	1	1	2
	Total	6	6	6	18

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