That’s no guarantee, especially with the constant threat of heavy winds capable of altering the texture and timing of the race.
Of course, those speeds would have to hold up during Sunday’s competition runs to officially put "The Rock" in the Olympic record books. 0.2 mph quicker than Deneriaz’s Olympic-best mark from 2006.Īs for the highest top speed, Austria’s Johannes Strolz – despite finishing the training session with a time outside the top 20 – was clocked at a blistering 86.5 mph at the third speed trap near the midway point on the course. His average speed during the run? 68.0 mph. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the top-ranked downhill skier in the world, set the pace Friday with a time of 1:43.72. The numbers so far have been eyebrow-raising. As the world’s top downhillers familiarized themselves with the course during official training sessions on Thursday and Friday, we got an early sense of the speed skiers will have to carry through their competition runs in order to get themselves on the podium. The fully-manmade piste was built specifically for the 2022 Winter Games and has never before hosted international competition. The Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center downhill course, nicknamed “The Rock,” is still largely a mystery.
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