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unusual facts about downhill


Mairiporã

The city is rich in many radical sports, like Paraglider in Pico do Olho D'água, Downhill in Trilha da Saracura, the Trilha dos Macacos with waterfalls among others.


1976 Winter Olympics medal table

Alpine skier Rosi Mittermaier won the women's downhill and slalom events to give West Germany's two gold medals in these Games.

Astrid Lødemel

The highlight in her career came in the World Championships 1993 in Morioka in Japan, February 11 when she won a silver medal in the downhill behind Kate Pace, and February 14 she won a bronze medal in the Super-G after Katja Seizinger and Sylvia Eder.

Brian Stemmle

Brian Stemmle (born October 12, 1966, Aurora, Ontario) is a retired Canadian skier who competed primarily in the downhill and Super-G disciplines.

Daniel Mahrer

In 1991, he won the Bronze medal in Downhill skiing at the World Championship in Saalbach.

Dick Durrance

After finishing eleventh in the downhill and eighth in the slalom he placed tenth in the Olympic combined event.

Dick Sweeney

The Sweeneys currently reside in Winchester, Massachusetts, and Dick enjoys a variety of activities which includes sailing and downhill skiing.

Dobara

Taran Adarsh praised the performances of the main actors and the music by Anu Malik such as 'Humnasheen' and 'Mujhse Kyon Roothe Ho?' but said "the sluggish pace of its narrative and classy treatment act as barricades. And the pre-climax portions, involving the child and the conclusion to the triangle, take the graph of the film downhill."

Downhill Challenge

Downhill Challenge is a view-from-behind 3d skiing game developed by Microïds in 1988, published in the US by Brøderbund Software and in France by Loriciel (as Super Ski; in the UK it also had an Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards license).

Downhill City

It was released in 1999 and contains the original soundtrack for the motion picture Downhill City by the Finnish director Hannu Salonen.

Dynastar

Tommy Moe won the 1994 Olympic downhill on Dynastar skis.

Émile Allais

The following year at Engelberg, Switzerland, he won the combined, and took silver in the downhill and slalom.

Emily Susan Rapp

She was trained as a downhill skier at the Center for Disabled Sports in Winter Park, Colorado.

Erik Guay

The win was Guay's first World Championship medal, and the second consecutive Canadian to win the world title in downhill, following John Kucera in 2009.

Racing out of Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Guay won the World Cup season title in Super G in 2010 and was the world champion in downhill in 2011.

Erik Håker

Erik Håker (born March 4, 1952) is a Norwegian alpine skier from Oppdal who finished 5th in the men's downhill at the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo.

Errol Kerr

Errol Kerr (born April 12, 1986 in Truckee, California) is a downhill skier formerly with the U.S. Ski Team.

Franz Heinzer

Heinzer won at the world's most famous downhill venues: Kitzbühel (3x), Wengen, Val Gardena (2x), Garmisch, Val-d'Isère, Aspen, Lake Louise, and St. Anton.

Gilford, New Hampshire

Penny Pitou, first US woman to win an Olympic medal in downhill skiing

Great Glen Way

The route runs downhill through the suburbs of Inverness, then follows the canal and the River Ness to the city centre, finishing at Inverness Castle.

Helmut Höflehner

Two time Downhill World Cup winner 1984/85 and 1989/90

Herb Kirk

When interviewed by Diane Sawyer of Good Morning America in 1999, he said about his running "It keeps me in good shape, active, interesting. I wouldn't do without some exercise. I'd be downhill fast."

Hilary Lindh

She was the only American to win a medal at the 1997 World Championships, capturing the gold medal in the women’s downhill in Sestriere, Italy.

She represented the U.S. in three Olympics and won the silver medal in the downhill at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France.

Iván Peñaranda

From there onwards Peñaranda's career went downhill, as he never settled in a team and often changed countries, until his definite release by Milan in June 2006: abroad, he played in Mexico for C.F. Pachuca, Bosnia and Herzegovina for FK Slavija (Sarajevo) and in Azerbaijan with Neftchi Baku PFC, appearing in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League preliminary rounds with the latter.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

His valiant efforts to preserve the position and holdings of his family failed against the overwhelming social and political turmoil resulting from the Civil War and Reconstruction, joined the ever-growing tide of once powerful and proud Creoles caught in a downhill slide toward oblivion.

Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton

Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet (d 1907), of Downhill, co.

Karl Theobald

He has recently finished shooting the independent British feature film Downhill, which is a comedy about four men attempting Alfred Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk.

Kölnbrein Dam

The water collected above in the Reisseck mountains runs downhill towards the valley of the Möll River.

Lara Gut

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the downhill and the super combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.

Liv Jagge-Christiansen

She participated at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, competing in downhill, slalom and giant slalom.

Maida Vale tube station

The station surface building and the distinctive staircase mosaics feature in Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film Downhill, as well as the 1983 film Runners, written by Stephen Poliakoff.

Marco Sullivan

Sullivan was the Downhill champion at the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2007 in the Alyeska Resort in Alaska; he finished more than a full second ahead of runner-up Erik Fisher.

Marie Marchand-Arvier

She finished fifth in the combined, and sixth in the downhill.

Marina Kiehl

The major highlight in Kiehl's career came at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, when she won a gold medal in the downhill ahead of Brigitte Oertli and Karen Percy.

Maryland Route 787

Flower Avenue continues south from the intersection as a narrow street that winds its way downhill to Sligo Creek Parkway.

Mickey's Trailer

In the Norwegian and Swedish broadcast of From All of Us to All of You, the scene where Goofy sticks his fork in a light socket is cut, along with most of the trailer's way downhill.

Mountain bike

North Shore bikes are much like freeride bikes in their geometry and downhill bikes in their component makeup.

Nadia Fanchini

She won a bronze medal in the downhill at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, France, and a silver medal in the downhill at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria.

National Cycle Route 23

The route then slopes significantly downhill, until it is parallel with the course of a different river, the Eastern Yar.

Patscherkofel

Ski legend Franz Klammer of Austria, then age 22, won his Olympic gold medal at Patscherkofel, dramatically edging out defending Olympic champion Bernhard Russi of Switzerland by 0.33 seconds in the 1976 Downhill.

Pewsey Vale

Economic issues during the Great Depression in the 1920s caused the Pewsey Vale winery to go downhill, which eventually led to a long period of abandonment.

Predil Pass

On the Slovenian side, the road No. 203 runs downhill to Log pod Mangartom and further to Bovec.

River Churnet

After flowing downhill for a few miles it reaches Tittesworth reservoir, a major supplier of fresh water to the Potteries and Leek.

Stephan Eberharter

Born in Brixlegg, Tyrol, Eberharter was the winner of the overall World Cup title in 2002 and 2003, as well as the season titles in downhill and Super G.

Szrenica

There are 3 routes for downhill skiing: Lolobrigida (4444 m), Śnieżynka and FIS - approved Trasa Zjazdowa; all constitute the system, which length is ca.

The British School in the Netherlands

Konrad Bartelski was a student of the BSN between 1960 and 1972, Konrad was the son of a KLM pilot and no one at that time could have foreseen that he would go on to become a world champion runner up in downhill skiing.

Todd Brooker

A younger member of the Crazy Canucks (Canada's downhill team) of the early 1980s Brooker won two World Cup downhill races at (Kitzbühel & Aspen) in 1983 finishing ninth in the season's overall downhill standings.

Varvara Zelenskaya

She also placed on the World Cup podium (top three) in 12 downhill races and one Super G from 1990 to 1997, with her first podium at the age of 18 on December 21, 1990, in Morzine, France.

Viaduc de Chillon

Built by the Consortium des Viaducs de Chillon between 1966 and 1969, it takes its name from the Château de Chillon which lies downhill on the shores of Lac Léman.

Zohi Sdom

Lot's wife (Tal Friedman) is a former pop singer whose career went downhill after she married Lot.


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