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Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

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Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held in Russia from 9–22 February at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, east of Sochi.[1]

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Sochi  is located in European Russia
Sochi 
Sochi 
Location in European Russia
Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics is located in Krasnodar Krai
 Rosa Khutor
 Rosa
 Khutor
Sochi 
Sochi 
Locations in Krasnodar Krai

Competition schedule

Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort,
the venue for alpine skiing

The following is the competition schedule for all ten events.[2]

All times are (UTC+4).

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Course information

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Medal summary

Several age records in alpine skiing were set at these Olympic Games:

Medal table

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Men's events

Women's events

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  • Two gold medals were awarded in the downhill, the first-ever tie for gold in an Olympic alpine skiing event; no silver medal was awarded.[7]

Qualification

A maximum of 320 (later adjusted to 350 by the International Ski Federation) quota spots were available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 22 athletes could be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 14 men or 14 women. There were two qualification standards for the games: an A standard and a B standard.[8]

Participating nations

327 athletes from 74 nations were scheduled to participate, with number of athletes in parentheses. Only 319 athletes competed in actual competition as the other 8 athletes suffered injuries during training. Four nations qualified for the Winter Olympics for the first time, and hence competed in alpine skiing for the first time as well: Malta, Timor-Leste, Togo and Zimbabwe.[9] Both Venezuela and Thailand made their Olympic debuts in the sport. One of Thailand's skiers was world-renowned concert violinist "Vanessa-Mae" Vanakorn.[10] India's athletes initially competed as Independent Olympic Participants, as the Indian Olympic Association was suspended by the International Olympic Committee,[11] but the suspension had since been lifted.[12]


References

  1. "Rosa Khutor" Alpine Center". SOOC. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. "Alpine Skiing Schedule and Results". SOOC. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  3. Holpuch, Amanda (21 February 2014). "USA's Mikaela Shiffrin youngest-ever gold medal winner in slalom". The Guardian.
  4. Pennington, Bill (22 February 2014). "Slalom Champion Sets an Age Record". New York Times.
  5. Ng, Curtis (16 February 2014). "Jan Hudec bronze snaps Canadian alpine medal drought". cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-02-16. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  6. Pennington, Bill (12 February 2014). "In Women's Downhill, a Nice Round Historic Tie". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  7. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Ski Federation. December 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  8. Knapton, Sarah (24 January 2014). "Winter Olympics 2014: violinist Vanessa-Mae to ski for Thailand at the Sochi Games". Daily Telegraph. London.
  9. "International Olympic Committee reinstates India at Sochi after ban". CNN. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.

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