Winter Sports
SPORTS
MOST SKI JUMPING WORLD CUP
INDIVIDUAL VICTORIES (FEMALE)
On 16 Feb 2017, Sara Takanashi (JPN) won her
53rd FIS World Cup event in Pyeongchang,
South Korea. She made her World Cup debut on
3 Dec 2011, aged 15 years 56 days, and won her
first event on 3 Mar the following year. Takanashi
has won the overall title four times: in 2013,
2014, 2016 and 2017.On 30 Sep 2016, Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu pulled off the first quadruple
loop jump in a men’s figure skating competition.Highest score in figure skating- free dance (ice dance)
On 31 Mar 2016, the French duo of
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron
scored 118.17 points at the ISU World
Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
On 9 Dec 2016, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
(both CAN) recorded the highest score in
figure skating – short dance
(ice dance): 80.50, at the ISU
Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
held in Marseille, France.
First person to win the 500 m and 1,000 m
at a World Single Distances Speed Skating
Championships (male)
Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) completed a sprint
double at the 2016 championships in Kolomna,
Russia, on 13–14 Feb. He had won gold and silver
in 2015, missing out in the 1,000 m by 0.04 sec.
Also in Kolomna, Denis Yuskov (RUS) achieved
the most consecutive 1,500 m World Single
Distances Speed Skating Championships
titles (male) with three, following his victories
in 2013 and 2015.Most wins of the Canadian Curling
Championship by a province
Commonly known as the Brier, the
Canadian Curling Championship was
first held in 1927. Alberta’s victory
in 2016 was their 27th, equalling the
mark set by Manitoba in 2011.Most wins of the snowmobiling
International 500 by a manufacturer
The “I-500” snowmobile race is staged over
an arduous 500-mi (804–km) course at Sault
Ste Marie in Michigan, USA. Bunke Racing took
the chequered flag on 4 Feb 2017 – marking
a 26th victory for manufacturer Polaris (USA).Most skiing World Cup victories (women)
On 21 Jan 2017, Lindsey Vonn (USA) achieved
her 77th FIS World Cup victory in a downhill
competition, on the Kandahar course at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany.
It was Vonn’s 39th win in the downhill
category – the most downhill skiing World
Cup race wins by an individual (female).
Her victory came only weeks after she severely
fractured her right arm in a training crash.FASTEST SHORT-TRACK
SPEED SKATING 1,500 M (WOMEN)
Choi Min-jeong (KOR, above front) set a time of
2 min 14.354 sec at the ISU World Cup Short Track
Speed Skating Series event in Salt Lake City,
Utah, USA, on 12 Nov 2016. Alongside Shim Suk-
hee, Kim Ji-yoo and Kim Geon-hee (all KOR), she
also recorded the fastest short-track speed
skating 3,000 m relay – 4 min 4.222 sec.HIGHEST
SCORE IN
FIGURE SKATING –
SHORT PROGRAMME
(FEMALE)
Evgenia Medvedeva
(RUS) scored 79.21 at
the International Skating
Union (ISU) Grand Prix
of Figure Skating Final
in Marseille, France,
on 9 Dec 2016.
On 27 Jan 2017,
Medvedeva followed up
with the highest score
in figure skating – long
programme (female):
150.79, recorded at
the ISU European
Championships in
Ostrava, Czech Republic.MOST CONSECUTIVE
FIS ALPINE SKI WORLD CUP TITLES (MALE)
Austria’s Marcel Hirscher won six consecutive Fédération
Internationale de Ski (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup overall titles,
in 2012–17. In doing so, he claimed the outright record
for most FIS Alpine Ski World Cup overall titles won
(male), surpassing the
achievement of Marc Girardelli (LUX,
b. AUT). Girardelli won his five overall titles in
1985–86, 1989, 1991 and 1993.Most participants at a
Bandy World Championship
A close relative of ice hockey, bandy is played
with a ball instead of a puck. Teams of 11 players
compete on a field of ice roughly the size of a
soccer pitch. The 2017 World Championship
in Sweden featured 18 nations – including
Mongolia, Holland and a team of Swedish-based
Somalis – matching the mark set in 2016.
Since its inauguration in 1957, the most wins
of the Bandy World Championship (men)
is 24, a combined total achieved by the Soviet
Union (1957–79, 1985 and 1989–91) and Russia
(1999–2001, 2006–08, 2011 and 2013–16).
The most wins of the Bandy World
Championship (women) is seven, achieved
by Sweden. Bar 2014, they have won every
tournament since its inception in 2004.Most consecutive Biathlon World Cup
overall titles won (male)
Martin Fourcade (FRA) secured his sixth
consecutive biathlon title in 2017 – three more
than Raphaël Poirée (FRA) and Frank Ullrich of
the former East Germany.
The most Biathlon World Championship
medals won (male) is 45, achieved by Norway’s
Ole Einar Bjørndalen from 1997 to 2017.On 22^ Dec 2015,
Hirscher had a
narrow escape when a
drone carrying a camera
crashed into the piste
inches from him during
a World Cup slalom
race in Madonna di
Campiglio, Italy.