The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 were held in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado, U.S.A., from February 2-14, 1999.
Lasse Kjus of Norway placed in the top two in all five events, winning two gold medals and taking three silvers. Hermann Maier of Austria won gold medals in the two speed events, the downhill and Super-G (a dead-heat tie with Kjus). Austria dominated the women's two speed events, sweeping all six medals.
This was the third non-Olympic World Championships held in the U.S., all in Colorado (the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, CA, and the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, are also officially considered to be World Championships). Vail hosted a decade earlier, in 1989, and Aspen in 1950, the first held outside of Europe. As a host country, the U.S. has won just two medals in the three World Championships, a gold and a bronze by Tamara McKinney in 1989.
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