Alpine Skiing
Berchtesgadener Land Blog
It was a Thursday like today the day when it all began: Thursday, January 5, 1967 was staged the first race of the Alpine skiing World Cup history.
Thursday 5 January 2017 5 minutes reading time
That day he played in one men's slalom on track Jenner Berchtesgaden, location of the then West Germany and Bavaria famous because refuge of Adolf Hitler who was staying at the Berghof, near the so-called Eagle's Nest. The new ski trophy was born from an idea had by Equipe journalist Serge Lang, during the World Championships in Portillo, Chile, played in August 1966, the racing manager of the French team Honoré Bonnet and that of the US Bob Beattie, which was added the Austrian Sepp Sulzberger. They subjected the idea to the president of FIS Marc Hodler who approved it and on August 11 gave the official announcement of the birth of the event.
The first race on the calendar was, precisely, the men's slalom in Berchtesgaden. After the first run was a surprise to command the Swede Bengt Erik Grahn that preceded the French Jules Melquiond and Jean-Claude Killy, but in the second race the Scandinavian forced too much and fell. But it was not France, then the team undisputed ruler of the international competitions, to win, but an Austrian, Heini Messner, the 27 year old Austrian Tyrol that surprises everyone, he was considered much more than downhill slalom skier, climbed from tenth place with a time of 1 '37 "257 (for the first time were calculated thousandths) preceded by 60 thousandths Melquiond and 124 Swiss dumeng giovanoli while Killy had to settle for fourth at 540 thousandths.
These are the gaps reported by La Stampa newspaper the next day, but on the FIS website are rounded to the penny: Messner is the winner in 1'37 "26, with 5 cents on Melquiond and 13 of Giovanoli Killy and is fourth at 54. Fifth place for him that Portillo had the race of life, winning the world title of the specialty, the 23 year old South Tyrolean Val Gardena Carlo Senoner, which preceded the two great back then skiing, Guy Périllat French, sixth, and the Austrian Karl Schranz seventh. The next day there was a giant in one run with a podium French: Georges Mauduit first, second, and Léo Lacroix Killy third.
The latter then begin to win repeat much to win 12 of 17 races on the calendar, taking so at home at the end of March as the first of the history of the World Cup. Note that both the overall standings for both those specialties were going to point the top ten of each race and were only the three best results of each athlete in each event. January 7 in Oberstaufen, in Bavaria, but always on the opposite side and west than in Berchtesgaden, was staged the first women's race, a slalom won by Nancy Greene who made an encore the next day in the giant, but the Canadian will win the first crystal ball just after crossing atop the standings in the last race the French Marielle Goitschel and also the other transalpine Famous Annie, with whom he dueled in an exciting throughout the season.
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