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unusual facts about super combined



2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships – Super combined

The Super combined competitions of the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships were held at Kandahar Banchetta Giovanni N., in Sestriere, Italy on January 19.

Elisabeth Görgl

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, Görgl won a bronze medal in super combined.

Julien Lizeroux

Lizeroux won silver medals in the super combined and the slalom on home snow at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère.

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.

Stabæk IF

Lotte Smiseth Sejersted, Norwegian champion in slalom in 2011, giant slalom in 2009 and 2011, Super-G 2009 and 2011, downhill 2007, 2010 and 2011, super combined 2009, 2010 and 2011, Junior World Champion in downhill 2011.


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Alpine skiing combined

The change to super combined resulted in major disapproval in the slalom-oriented part of the skiing community, the loudest critic being Ivica Kostelić.

The first super combined was a World Cup race held in 2005 in Wengen, Switzerland, on January 14th; Benjamin Raich of Austria was the winner.

Philipp Gschwandtner

He achieved good results at the World Junior Championships 2008 in the Swiss vineyards. In the super-G, he went to coincide with the Czechs Lukáš Kolouch at number six and in the super-combined in seventh place.