Mont Lachaux

Mont Lachaux
Place:	Crans-Montana
Downhill
Start:	2,210 m (7,251 ft) (AA)
Finish:	1,545 m (5,069 ft)
Vertical drop:	665 m (2,182 ft)
Length:	2,451 m (1.52 mi)
Max. incline:	28 degrees (53%)
Min. incline:	5.7 degrees (10%)

Mont Lachaux is a World Cup women's speed ski course in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, opened in 1987. ^{[1] [2]}

They hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1987, with Swiss skiers Pirmin Zurbriggen, Maria Walliser, Erika Hess and Peter Müller who took 8 of 10 available gold medals, dominating in front of the home crowd.

Not to be confused with other two nearby ski courses (all three hosting World Championships 1987); the right next "Piste Nationale" men's downhill course and "Chetzeron" which is located away in Crans village. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Course

Sections

• La Face
• Le Trour de Renard
• La Traversée de Glavan
• Le Tobbogan
• Reck de Vermala

World Championships

Women's events

Event	Type	Date	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1987	KB	(SL) 29 January 1987   30 January 1987	Erika Hess	Sylvia Eder	Tamara McKinney
	DH	(DH) 1 February 1987	Maria Walliser	Michela Figini	Regine Mösenlechner

• The women's World Championships combined slalom was held on "Chetzeron" ski course.

World Cup

Women

No.	Type	Season	Date	Winner	Second	Third
	DH	2013/14	1 March 2014	fog; replaced in Crans-Montana on 2 March
1447	DH		2 March 2014	Andrea Fischbacher	Anna Fenninger	Tina Maze
	SC		2 March 2014	cancelled; rescheduled with downhill
	DH	2015/16	13 February 2016	excessive snow: replaced in La Thuile on 19 February 2016
	AC		14 February 2016	excessive snow forced delay in previous days event
1512	SL		15 February 2016	Mikaela Shiffrin	Nastasia Noens	Marie-Michèle Gagnon
1553	AC	2016/17	24 February 2017	Federica Brignone	Ilka Štuhec	Michaela Kirchgasser
1554	SG		25 February 2017	Ilka Štuhec	Elena Curtoni	Stephanie Venier
1555	AC		26 February 2017	Mikaela Shiffrin	Federica Brignone	Ilka Štuhec
1595	DH	2017/18	3 March 2018	Tina Weirather	Anna Veith	Wendy Holdener
1596	AC		4 March 2018	Federica Brignone	Michelle Gisin	Petra Vlhová
1629	DH	2018/19	23 February 2019	Sofia Goggia	Nicole Schmidhofer	Corinne Suter
1630	AC		24 February 2019	Federica Brignone	Roni Remme	Wendy Holdener
1663	DH	2019/20	21 February 2020	Lara Gut-Behrami	Corinne Suter	Stephanie Venier
1664	DH		22 February 2020	Lara Gut-Behrami	Corinne Suter	Nina Ortlieb
1665	AC		23 February 2020	Federica Brignone	Franziska Gritsch	Ester Ledecká
1683	DH	2020/21	22 January 2021	Sofia Goggia	Ester Ledecká	Breezy Johnson
1684	DH		23 January 2021	Sofia Goggia	Lara Gut-Behrami	Elena Curtoni
1685	SG		24 January 2021	Lara Gut-Behrami	Tamara Tippler	Federica Brignone
1725	DH	2021/22	26 February 2022	Ester Ledecká	Ragnhild Mowinckel	Cornelia Hütter
1726	DH		27 February 2022	Priska Nufer	Ester Ledecká	Sofia Goggia
	DH	2022/23	25 February 2023	bad weather; moved to 26 February 2023
1763	DH		26 February 2023	Sofia Goggia	Federica Brignone	Laura Gauché
	SG		26 February 2023	program changes; no replacement
1801	DH	2023/24	16 February 2024	Lara Gut-Behrami	Jasmine Flury Cornelia Hütter	–
1802	DH		17 February 2024	Marta Bassino	Federica Brignone	Lara Gut-Behrami
1803	SG		18 February 2024	Stephanie Venier	Federica Brignone	Marta Bassino

References

1. "List of World Cup events". International Ski Federation. 16 February 2024.
2. "The legendary Nationale piste gets a green light from the FIS". cransmontana2027.ch. 26 March 2023.
3. "Piste Nationale". myswitzerland.com. 2 February 1987.
4. "Super G neznanka? Tudi naša dvojica" (in Slovenian). Delo. 2 February 1987. p. 9.
5. "Do naslova z velikim tveganjem..." (in Slovenian). Delo. 3 February 1987. p. 11.
6. "Že šesto zlato Švicarjem, še drugo Pirminu Zurbriggnu" (in Slovenian). Delo. 5 February 1987. p. 6.
7. "Samo Mateja Svet enakovredna švicarskim šampionkam" (in Slovenian). Delo. 6 February 1987. p. 8.
8. "Erika prva, Mateja druga" (in Slovenian). Delo. 9 February 1987. p. 9.

External links

• Crans Montana (official)

46°19′00″N7°29′00″E / 46.316667°N 7.483333°E / 46.316667; 7.483333