HAHNENKAMM RACE KITZBÜHEL

WORTH KNOWING ...

  • The abbreviation HKR stands for Hahnenkamm Race
  • The Kitzbüheler Ski Club has been organizing the HKR since their first race in 1930/31
  • The Kitzbüheler Ski Club (K.S.C.) has been existing as a Ski Club since 1902 and is one of Austria´s oldest, most traditional and successful ski clubs with more than 6,600 members.
  • The KSC´s main objective is to promote young athletes in alpine skiing, ski jumping, cross-country skiing and snowboarding (some 150 to 160 children and youths ages 8-15)
  • The top athletes of the Kitzbüheler Ski Club have won the total of 53 medals in Olympic Winter Games and World Championships so far
  • The real "Hahnenkamm Winner" will always be the winner of the classical Combined (downhill and slalom)
  • The course names of the Hahnenkamm Race are "Streif" for downhill and "Ganslern" for slalom
  • This most famous downhill course worldwide starts at 1,665 m altitude on the Hahnenkamm and ends, after 3,312 spectacular meters, at 802 m altitude on "Rasmusleitn” almost in the centre of town
  • The steepest section - 85% - is at the top of Mausefalle, the longest standing jumps of 80 m are down Mausefalle and the maximum speeds of more than 140 km/h are reached in the Zielschuss Compression
  • A new chapter in the history of skiing was opened, apart from sports highlights on Streif and Ganslern, on 20th Jan. 1966 at the Seidlalm when the Alpine Skiing World Cup of the International Ski Federation (FIS) was for the first time discussed.
  • KITZ KIRI SKI was the name for the festivities at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Hahnenkamm Race in 1990
  • So far, the HKR had to be cancelled only three times for lack of snow, namely in 1964, 1968 and 1993. The Bergbahn AG Kitzbühel installed a snow making system along the entire race courses in the summer of 1993. 2005 a Super-G and a slalom were performed, 2007 no downhill but two slaloms.
  • In order to secure future races more than 8,000 m of barrier fences, 1,400 m of G-fences (slip fencing of varying height, mounted on special safety poles), 1,100 m of A-nets (high safety nets), 3,000 m of B-nets (stopper fences, 2m high, mounted on special safety poles) more than 1,400 persons are directly or indirectly involved in the staging of this event on race days on and around the Hahnenkamm
  • More than 1,400 persons are directly or indirectly involved in the staging of this event on race days on and around the Hahnenkamm