Saslong

Saslong is a World Cup downhill ski course in northern Italy, just above Val Gardena/Gröden in the South Tyrol. Located on the Langkofel in the Dolomites, the race course made its World Cup debut in February 1969. The ski course is named after the mountain Saslonch with an adapted spelling.
Franz Klammer and Kristian Ghedina won record 4 downhills and Aksel Lund Svindal record 5 super-G's.

Course sections

Spinel

This section starts as a very difficult jump short after the start, into the steepest section, then virtual change direction in mid-air to compression.

Saut dl Moro

A jump which takes skiers into the second compression.

Looping

Muri di Sochers

This section starts as a jump in the air, followed by a flat, yet intense, left-right-left gate combination ending at the 1st Mauer.
Skiers jump ca. directly to the 1st Mauer and have to sway to the right to the 2nd Mauer.
The jump on the 2nd Mauer contemporaneously serves as the entry into the flat section leading to the first Camel Hump with top speed at about.

Gobbe del Cammello (Camel Humps)

The Camel Humps represent the most spectacular section of the Saslong. They were named by the late and former Austrian FIS TD Sepp Sulzberger. Uli Spiess from Austria was the first athlete to attempt and succeed in jumping all three Humps at the same time instead of taking each jump separately.
Since Spiess' premiere, skiers today mostly absorb the first jump and leap from the second over the third. The record jump belongs to Austrian skier Michael Walchhofer who leaped reaching a height of 4–5 meters in 2003.

Ciaslat

This section its corrugated ripples and bumps is where the race is often decided. In this extremely and technically very demanding section of the course racers face overall 17 different ripples.

Nucia (Tunnel)

Skiers take the Nucia jump into the final schuss following the exit from Ciaslat.

Schuss

The last and finals section of the course starts with jump that owes its name to the new tunnel that runs below the Final schuss and is part of the new street by-passing St.Christina which was opened in 2009.

World Cup

The first downhill winner in 1969 was Jean-Daniel Dätwyler, and this annual ski event is part of the prestigious Saslong Classic competition. Saslong hosted the World Championships in 1970, which also counted for 1970 World Cup season points and wins/podiums statistics.
On 23 March 1975, Saslong hosted the first parallel slalom in history, Gustav Thöni won in front of 40,000, beating Ingemar Stenmark in the final.

Downhill start	Upper section 1	Upper section 2	Intermediate section
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Werner Heel	Bode Miller	Final section	Finish area
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Men

Women

Club5+

In 1986, elite Club5 was originally founded by prestigious classic downhill organizers: Kitzbühel, Wengen, Garmisch, Val d’Isère and Val Gardena/Gröden, with goal to bring alpine ski sport on the highest levels possible.
Later over the years other classic longterm organizers joined the now named Club5+: Alta Badia, Cortina, Kranjska Gora, Maribor, Lake Louise, Schladming, Adelboden, Kvitfjell, St.Moritz and Åre.