Austrian skier Matthias Mayer of Austria has won the final World Cup downhill in Switzerland today, coming in ahead of Italy’s Christof Innerhofer and US skier Ted Ligety. Twenty-three-year-old Matthias Mayer is an Olympic champion who won a surprise gold medal in the men’s downhill at the Sochi Winter Games just a few weeks ago. […]
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A Hungarian ski tourer was rescued after 14 hours stuck in a crevasse in East Tyrol, Austria at the weekend. The skier plunged 10 metres into the crevasse – a friend notified rescuers who after 14 hours were able to get the man out. The conditions were particularly difficult due to extreme weather conditions. Rescue […]
For the first time a combined contest of skiing and mountainbiking took place on the Semmering last weekend.Additionally a new speed record of 130 km/h was set in a speed-skiing contest.In the White Down Ski & Bike Battle, 35 teams of one skier or snowboarder and one mountain biker each raced down the flood-lit piste […]
A teenage skier was hospitalised after crashing down a 20-metre embankment.The 16-year-old holidaymaker from Bahlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg was airlifted to a clinic in Feldkirch after coming off groomed slopes in the winter sport resort of Damüls yesterday afternoon (Thurs).One day earlier, a 37-year-old skier from the Netherlands died after he hit […]
An Upper Austrian skier is in intensive care after colliding with a Dutch holidaymaker yesterday (Tues).The 63-year-old from Ried im Innkreis was skiing down a slope in the Salzburg winter sport resort of Neukirchen when the 33-year-old man from the Netherlands crashed into him from behind.Witnesses claimed the Dutchman was going too fast. Local police […]
German killed while freeskiing
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A German skier has died after leaving maintained slopes in Tyrol.The 48-year-old man crashed on a rocky hill which had no path after he decided to leave prepared pistes in the Karwendel mountain range in the western province of Tyrol yesterday (Sun).The man was airlifted to a clinic after other skiers discovered him lying on […]
German skier dies in 50-metre fall
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A young German skier died after an accident yesterday (Mon).The 22-year-old tourist lost control as he skied down a slope at high speed in the Tyrolean winter sport resort of Hochgurgl. He skidded off the piste and plunged down a 50-metre descent. Witnesses carried out first aid measures immediately, but the holidaymaker had already died […]
Avalanche hospitalises skier
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An off-piste skier has been hospitalised after coming under an avalanche near Tux in Tyrols Ziller Valley.Mountain rescue authorities in the provinces Schwaz district said today (Weds) the Austrian suffered serious injuries to his pelvis when he was buried by the avalanche which raced down off groomed slopes at the Hintertuxer glacier this morning.They said […]
A skier buried by an avalanche yesterday (Sun) near Klösterle am Arlberg, Vorarlberg, was able to free himself, police said.The man and a male companion triggered a 40-metre wide avalanche about 11:30am. The other man was also caught in the avalanche but was not buried.A skier who witnessed the avalanche called rescuers.In a more serious […]