Gurgl, Austria, will host the second Slalom event of the season. The Gurgl Alpine Ski World Cup will be held at the Kirchenkar Gurgl racecourse in Hochgurgl from November 23 to November 24, 2024.
It will be the second time that Hochgurgl appears on the Alpine Ski World Cup Calendar. The first World Cup event took place on November 18, 2023. Gurgl is the 24th Austrian venue to host an Alpine Ski World Cup event.
For the first time this year, Gurgl is organizing a women's slalom on Saturday in addition to the Men's race on Sunday.
Gurgl (AUT)
The race starts on the Kirchenkar slope in Hochgurgl and ends 320 m above the Top Mountain Crosspoint.
Technical Data Kirchenkar Gurgl racecourse
Start Altitude: 2,475 m
Finish Altitude: 2,265 m
Vertical Drop: 210m
Length of race track: 548 m
Lowest gradient: 18 %
Steepest section: 62 %
Average gradient: 38.3 %
Saturday, 23.11.2024
10:30 CET 1st run
13:30 CET 2nd run
Sunday, 24.11.2024
10:30 CET 1st run
13:30 CET 2nd run
Update 11.14.2024: After today's official snow control, the #AlpineSkiWorldCup races in #Gurgl are confirmed.
At the Alpine Ski World Cup premiere in Gurgl last season, Manuel Feller led a 1-2-3 Austrian podium sweep. The Austrian laid the foundation for his victory with an exceptional performance in the first run on a very demanding course, where 27 out of 72 skiers were eliminated. Feller took the top spot on the podium, followed by Marco Schwarz in second (+0.23) and Michael Matt in third (+1.05).
Gurgl is a village in the municipality of Soelden, in the Ötztal Valley, Tirol. The Obergurgl-Hochgurgl ski resort is one of the first open winter ski areas in the Alpine region. In 2024 the ski season starts in Gurgl on November 14.
Thanks to its location - at the southern end of the Ötztal Valley, also known as the Gurgl Valley, on the border with Italy-, surrounded by peaks up to 3500 m high and several glaciers, the largest of which is the Gurgler Ferner-, in combination with an excellent snowmaking infrastructure (with a capacity of 5000 m³ of snow per hour), Obergurgl-Hochgurg is one of the snow-surest ski areas in the Alps. There are not many places in the Alps, outside of the glaciers, where skiers can enjoy excellent conditions from November to May.
The ski area known by the nickname "Diamond of the Alps" is located between 1,800 and 3,080 meters above sea level. The ski resorts of Obergurgl and Hochgurgl are linked by the Top-Express gondola lift. The 50 8-person cabins, with a capacity of up to 1,200 people per hour, transport skiers in just 9 minutes along a 3.6 km scenic route over the picturesque Königstal and Ferwalltal valleys.
Ski-in and ski-out Obergurgl-Hochgurgl has a modern network of 24 lifts and 112 km of slopes divided into: 60.2 km of easy slopes (blue), 33.2 km of intermediate slopes (red), 14.3 km of difficult slopes (black), and 4,5 km of ski routes.
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