Ski Competition Events

Olympic skiing events include alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, cross country skiing, and nordic combined, which incorporates ski jumping and cross country skiing.

Alpine ski racing consists of five men's events and five women's events. The rules and race configuration are the same for men and women but the courses differ mostly notably in length.

Downhill ski races are designed to be the longest and ultimately generate the highest speed from the skiers. Each skier makes one run only. The skier with the fastest time is the winner. As in all Alpine events, skiers are timed to one hundredth of a second and any ties stand as that.

Cross country skiing races are contested in twelve events consisting of both men and women individual and national team races.

Super combined (super combi) ski races includes a single slalom race and either a shorter than normal downhill run or a super G race. In the super combined, the times of each race are added together and the fastest total time determines the winner.

Combined ski racing events include one downhill run followed by two slalom runs.

Freestyle aerial skiing competition require the competitors to ski a ramp leading to a high kick-off jump. Each "kicker block" is built to a varying formula of rate-of-rise to distance of the initial rise to the top. This allows the competitors to pre-choose 2 of the collection of back flips, twists and turns they will perform based on their own style and technique. What they choose combines to a…

Freestyle moguls competition includes a course which is a set of manmade moguls, or bumps, on a steep slope that will provide 3 or 4 lines or paths down. The goal is to ski down through the bumps as fast as possible doing the tricks off the two jumps.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) first approved freestyle skiing as a discipline in 1979. It wasn't until 1986 that a World Championship consisting of mogul, aerial, and ballet competition was held in Tignes, France. Freestyle skiing was a demonstration event at the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988. Mogul skiing was added to the...

There are three Nordic Combined events. All are men's events, which consist of a ski jumping competition, and a cross-country skiing race.

Paralympic alpine skiing competition is open to male and female athletes with physical disabilities.

Skicross, also known as ski cross, is a race on a set course racers going head-to-head together down to the finish line with the first across the finish line to be the winner.

Ski Cross is a skiing competition event where skiers race in a mass start group of four on a course of bumps and turns best described as a vertical snow covered motorbike "motocross" venue.

Ski flying is ski jumping competition on slopes longer than 170 or 185 meters. In comparison, Olympic ski jumps are 90 and 120 meters.

Ski Jumping competition results are based on a total point system combining style points and distance points.

Ski slopestyle is a competition held in a terrain park where competitors all ski over the same jumps and rails. Each competitor attempts his best rail skiing style and most extravagant aerial maneuvers.

Slalom ski races are traditionally the shortest race. They are comprised of close together turns or gates. Each competitor makes one run, then the course is reset on the same slope, but, with position of the gates changed.

Speed skiing is the art of going downhill through a straight measured course with the object of attaining the highest speed possible.

Super G is short for super giant slalom. Races are run on a course shorter than the downhill, but, longer than the GS. The skier with the fastest time over one run is the winner.

The 2011 Audi Alpine FIS Ski World Cup racing season which began October 23-24, 2010 at Soelden, Austria is the road leading up to the 2011 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships at Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. Here are the results from the Aspen Winternational competitions.

Friday Night Jib Fights is a series of ski and snowboard rail jam that is hosted alternately by Brighton Resort, Snowbasin Resort, and Park City Mountain Resort. Daring skiers and snowboarders can sign up and show off their freestyle skills under the Friday night lights. Here is a collection of images from Park City Mountain Resort's rail jam.