SKIING — GORDON EATON, Middlebury College sophomore, handily won the national giant
slalom championship at Pinkham Notch, N.H. over Marvin Moriarty of Stowe, Vt..
PIRMIN ZURBRIGGEN of Switzerland won the men's giant
slalom championship after placing sixth in that finale.
We were headed to Big Bear to retrieve a ski
slalom championship trophy that I had won the day before.
Not exact matches
Snowboarding is her strong suit, as she won gold in parallel giant
slalom at world
championships in 2016, and placed in the top 30 in three events at skiing worlds.
CANOE
SLALOM WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIPS: PAUL FARRANT, England, single - seat; VLADIMIR JIRASEK, Czechoslovakia, Canadian single - seat; BEHREND and MERKEL, East Germany, mixed Canadian two - seat; FRIEDRICH and KLEINERT, East Germany, Canadian two - seat; HILDE UBBANIAK, West Germany, women's single - seat; at Geneva.
Two years later, at the 1958 FIS world
championships in Bad Gastein, she took both the women's downhill and giant
slalom and was hailed as the new ruler of the skiing world, the first girl since the great Andrea Mead Lawrence to win two gold medals in world competition.
Adam Clawson BRYSON CITY, N.C. Clawson, 18, a member of the U.S. team in white - water
slalom canoeing, won the silver medal in the men's singles and a gold medal as part of the team competition at the world
championships.
NI ORSI, 16, of Stockton, Calif., took both the downhill and giant
slalom in the National Junior Alpine
championship in Kingsfield, Me.
Phil Mahre of White Pass, Wash, won the giant
slalom title at the U.S. National Alpine Ski
championships in Mission Ridge, Wash..
SKIING Ralph Miller, formful Army private from Camp Hale, Col., tied Bill Beck of Kingston, R.I. in downhill, next day edged same rival by 3.2 seconds in
slalom, took North American combined
championship at Sugar Bowl, Norden, Calif..
14 - 15 Ishpeming Ski Club Jumping Championship, CUSSA, Ishpeming, Mich. 14 - 15 INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC COMBINED, Ishpeming, Mich. 19 - 22 NATIONAL JUNIOR
CHAMPIONSHIPS, Yakima, Wash. 21 - 22 SRMSA Senior Cross-country
Championships and Nordic Combined, Ski Club Zipfelberger, Winter Park, Colo. 27 - 29 NCAA SKI
CHAMPIONSHIPS, SRMSA, Winter Park, Colo. 28 - 29 NATIONAL VETERANS DOWNHILL AND
SLALOM, Mt. Shasta, Calif..
8 SRMSA Senior Jumping
Championships, Steamboat Springs, Colo. 14 - 15 CUSSA Junior Downhill and
Slalom Championships, boys - girls, Pine Mountain Ski Club, Iron Mountain, Mich. 15 CUSSA Junior Jumping
Championships, boys - girls, Flying Eagles Ski Club, Eau Claire, Wis. 15 Snowflake Ski Club Jumping Championship, CUSSA, Westby, Wis. 21 North American Giant
Slalom, FWSA, Squaw Valley, Calif. 21 - 22 CUSSA Downhill and
Slalom Championships, Caberfae, Cadillac, Mich. 22 North American
Slalom, FWSA, Squaw Valley, Calif. 22 CUSSA Junior Cross-country and Nordic Combined
Championships, boys - girls, Ishpeming Ski Club, Ishpeming, Mich. 22 NATIONAL SKI JUMPING
CHAMPIONSHIPS, Leavenworth, Wash. 23 North American Downhill, FWSA, Squaw Valley, Calif. 26 - 27 HARRIMAN CUP, Sun Valley, Idaho.
Kristina Koznick, the leading American
slalom skier, did roughly eight times better at the world
championships at Vail last Saturday than she did at the last world
championships, two years ago.
In the alpine ski
slalom final two pedigree pups compete for the
championship in the Puppy Games.