Alpine Skiing
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
Inaugural FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held at Mürren, Switzerland. The events are a downhill and a slalom race in both the men's and women's categories. The winners are:
- Men's Downhill – Walter Prager (Switzerland)
- Men's Slalom – David Zogg (Switzerland)
- Women's Downhill – Esme Mackinnon (Great Britain)
- Women's Slalom – Esme Mackinnon (Great Britain)
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Famous quotes containing the word alpine:
“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)