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How long are races?
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I have been looking on the interwebz but there is surprisingly little information, so I decided to find the most popular ski forum - much easier to find.
Does anyone know the average length(km) for an international standard Slalom or Downhill?
Many Thanks.
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the fis website shows the requirements for a downhill etc (in fact all races).
no requirement on length, more to do with vertical if i remember correctly.
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Yeah, I looked on the site but with no requirement on length, it didn't really give much detail as to how long these two races generally are.
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You can actually do some approximate calculations... at least for SL and GS. Number of gates is set, then pretty much all SL and GS are set on same gate distance, and from this you can get approximate length. Now don't understand me wrong... gate distance varies, and different combination make it even worse, but if you look on average, they are pretty close.
If you really want to search for this, then there's database of homologations on FIS web. Each course has to have one, at least if you want to run FIS races there. And there is also length of the course written there. But if I remember right, this database goes by course id number not by name, so you will most likely be searching for nothing if you will be doing searches for Gran Risa for example.
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