This section starts as a very difficult jump short after the start, into the steepest section (56.9% gradient), then virtual change direction in mid-air to compression.
Saut dl Moro
A forty-metre (130ft) jump which takes skiers into the second compression.
Looping
Muri di Sochers
This section starts as a Fifteen-to-twenty-metre (49 to 66ft) jump in the air, followed by a flat, yet intense, left-right-left gate combination ending at the 1st Mauer ("Wall").
Skiers jump ca. 35 metres (115ft) 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 130km/h (81mph).
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 (a.k.a. "Girardelli Line") and leap from the second over the third. The record jump belongs to Austrian skier Michael Walchhofer who leaped 88 metres (289ft) reaching a height of 4–5 meters in 2003.
This section, with its corrugated ripples and bumps, is often where the race is decided. Racers encounter 17 ripples in this technically demanding part of the course.
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 (SUI), 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.[2]
World Championships, also counted for World Cup. Not part of classic Saslong competition. It only replaced Lake Louise (2001), Beaver Creek (2022, 2025), Zermatt-Cervinia (2023)
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.[3]
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