Tag Archives: Skiing

Aare, 11 February - Štefan Hadalin won the silver medal in the combined at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Sweden's Aare on Monday in what is the first medal for Slovenian male skiers since Mitja Kunc's bronze in the slalom in 2001.

Aare, 10 February - Slovenian ski star Ilka Štuhec won the downhill at the Skiing World Championships on Sunday, defending her title and achieving the highlight of her career.

During the long and challenging season, fans of the Slovenian alpine skier Ilka Štuhec will now support their favourite athlete in a special way. From today on, they can send her a letter in a form of a drawing, postcard or a simple text and send it to a special address, which was opened for Ilka Štuhec by the national ...

Ilka Štuhec sovereignly won the last world cup downhill race of the season in Aspen, and won the small crystal globe, securing the highest sum of points for the royal discipline. Štuhec became one of only seven skiers in history to win the downhill crystal globe in the World Cup in the same year she became the world champion. Six ...

Ilka Štuhec has shown yet another perfect textbook performance, winning her fifth super-G of the season in Crans Montana, which puts her as a serious contender for the small crystal globe. The Slovenian ski champion skied fastest at all sections of the ski run – which had turned soft due to sunny weather- and even picked up more speed in ...

Boštjan Kline is the latest addition to the list of Slovenian winners at World Cup skiing races. Six years after becoming the Junior World Champion, Kline won the downhill race in Kvitfjell. “Wonderful! I skied well and I did everything I had to do. This is one of the best days in my career,” said the 25-year-old Kline, who had ...

Slovenia’s star skier Tina Maze bagged gold in the downhill race at the World Alpine Ski Championships in Vail on Friday. This is her second medal at the worlds, following silver in the super-G event on Tuesday. Maze beat Anna Fenninger of Austria in second by 0.02 seconds only three days after Fenninger beat her to super-G gold by 0.03. ...

Americans might do well to notice Tina Maze, the Michael Jordan of an under-appreciated spectator sport. The most exciting seconds in sports could come in the last lap of a Formula One race, or as the clock spins to zero and the point guard hangs in mid-air as he tries for one last three-pointer. These are examples of high tension ...