Männlichen (ski course)

Männlichen is a classic men's World Cup slalom ski course in Wengen, Switzerland. Located in the Bernese Alps on Lauberhorn mountain, the course made its debut in 1930.^[1]

Männlichen
Place:	Wengen
Mountain:	Lauberhorn
Member:	Club5+
Opened:	1930
Level:	expert
Competition:	Lauberhornrennen
Slalom
Start:	1,475 m (4,839 ft) (AA)
Finish:	1,285 m (4,216 ft)
Vertical drop:	190 m (623 ft)
Max. incline:	35.8 degrees (72%)
Avg. incline:	17.2 degrees (31%)
Min. incline:	1.1 degrees (2%)
Most wins:	Ivica Kostelić (4x)

It is the oldest active alpine ski racing course in the world and part of the Lauberhornrennen, the oldest ski competition in the world.

As Switzerland is and always was militarily neutral, alpine competitions were held during World War II.

Männlichen shares a common finish area with "Lauberhorn", Wengen's famous downhill course.

The course runs on natural terrain (pasture in summer), and is used only for World Cup events; its vertical drop is 190 metres (623 ft).

Official course name

In 2020, the name of the course was officially changed (shortened) from "Männlichen / Jungfrau" to "Männlichen" only. It is named after the mountain of the same name in the surrounding area.^[2]

(pre)World Cup

Switzerland

Ivica Kostelić (CRO)	The slope
300x	300x
Won record 4 slaloms	Lower section

Men

No.	Type	Season	Date	Winner	Second	Third
International Lauberhorrenen
—	SL	1930	1930	Ernst Gertsch	Bill Bracken	Harald Reinl
	KB		1930	Bill Bracken	N/A	N/A
	SL	1931	1931	Hans Schlunegger	Ernst von Allmen	Willy Steuri
	KB		1931	Fritz Steuri	N/A	N/A
	SL	1932	1932	Fritz von Allmen	Peter Lun	Ernst Gertsch
	KB		1932	Fritz Steuri	N/A	N/A
In 1933 it was the only time in the history of Lauberhornrennen when competition wasn't organized
—	SL	1934	1934	Adolf Rubi	Ernst von Allmen	Arnold Glatthard
	KB		1934	Adolf Rubi	N/A	N/A
	SL	1935	1935	Arnold Glatthard	Willy Steuri	Raymond Berthet
	KB		1935	Hans Rubi	N/A	N/A
	SL	1936	1936	Hermann Steuri	Arnold Glatthard	Wilhelm Walch
	KB		1936	Émile Allais	N/A	N/A
	SL	1937	1937	Wilhelm Walch	Hans Schlunegger	Heinz von Allmen
	KB		1937	Wilhelm Walch	N/A	N/A
	SL	1938	1938	Rudolf Cranz	Wilhelm Walch	Heinz von Allmen
	KB		1938	Heinz von Allmen	N/A	N/A
	SL	1939	1939	Josef Jennewein	Wilhelm Walch	Joseph Pertsch
	KB		1939	Wilhelm Walch	N/A	N/A
	SL	1940	1940	Karl Molitor	Hans Gertsch	Jean Dormond
	KB		1940	Karl Molitor	N/A	N/A
	SL	1941	1941	Marcel von Allmen	Karl Molitor	Otto von Allmen
	KB		1941	Marcel von Allmen	N/A	N/A
	SL	1942	1942	Heinz von Allmen	Albert Scheuing	Bruno Rota
	KB		1942	Heinz von Allmen	N/A	N/A
	SL	1943	1943	Heinz von Allmen	Hans Hansson	Marcel von Allmen
	KB		1943	Heinz von Allmen	N/A	N/A
	SL	1944	1944	Marcel von Allmen	Hans Gertsch	Fred Rubi
	KB		1944	Marcel von Allmen	N/A	N/A
	SL	1945	1945	Otto von Allmen	Karl Molitor	Walter Haensli
	KB		1945	Otto von Allmen	N/A	N/A
	SL	1946	1946	Otto von Allmen	James Couttet	Karl Molitor
	KB		1946	Karl Molitor	N/A	N/A
	SL	1947	1947	Olle Dalman	James Couttet	Zeno Colò
	KB		1947	Edy Rominger	N/A	N/A
	SL	1948	1948	Karl Molitor	Zeno Colò	Roberto Lacedelli
	KB		1948	Karl Molitor	N/A	N/A
	SL	1949	1949	Zeno Colò	Fernand Grosjean	Adolf Odermatt
	KB		1949	Adolf Odermatt	N/A	N/A
	SL	1950	1950	Zeno Colò	Fernand Grosjean	Adolf Odermatt
	KB		1950	Fred Rubi	N/A	N/A
	SL	1951	1951	Stein Eriksen	Georges Schneider	James Couttet
	KB		1951	Othmar Schneider	N/A	N/A
	SL	1952	1952	Stein Eriksen	Georges Schneider	Fred Rubi
	KB		1952	Othmar Schneider	N/A	N/A
FIS–A
—	SL	1953	1953	Andreas Molterer	Benedikt Obermüller	Louis Perret
	KB		1953	Andreas Molterer	N/A	N/A
	SL	1954	1954	Toni Spiss	Walter Schuster	Louis Perret
	KB		1954	Christian Pravda	N/A	N/A
	SL	1955	1955	Martin Julen	Bernard Perret	Adrien Duvillard
	KB		1955	Toni Sailer	N/A	N/A
	SL	1956	1956	Andreas Molterer	Josef Rieder	Toni Sailer
	KB		1956	Josef Rieder	N/A	N/A
	SL	1957	1957	Andreas Molterer	Ernst Hinterseer	Josef Rieder
	KB		1957	Josef Rieder	N/A	N/A
	SL	1958	1958	Josef Rieder	Mathias Leitner	Wallace Werner
	KB		1958	Wallace Werner	N/A	N/A
	SL	1959	1959	Ernst Oberaigner	Mathias Leitner	Roger Staub
	KB		1959	Ernst Oberaigner	N/A	N/A
	SL	1960	1960	Mathias Leitner	Josef Stiegler	Ernst Hinterseer
	KB		1960	Josef Stiegler	N/A	N/A
	SL	1961	1961	Josef Stiegler	Adolf Mathis	Charles Bozon
	KB		1961	Guy Périllat	N/A	N/A
	SL	1962	1962	Adolf Mathis	Charles Bozon	Martin Burger
	KB		1962	downhill cancelled and consequently also combined event
—	SL	1963	1963	Guy Périllat	Martin Burger	Egon Zimmermann
	KB		1963	Guy Périllat	N/A	N/A
	SL	1964	1964	Ludwig Leitner	Mathias Leitner	Karl Schranz
	SL	1965	1965	Guy Périllat	Jean-Claude Killy	Per Sunde
	KB		1965	Karl Schranz	N/A	N/A
	SL	1966	1966	Guy Périllat	Jules Melquiond	Franz Digruber
	KB		1966	Karl Schranz	N/A	N/A
World Cup
5	SL	1967	15 January 1967	Jean-Claude Killy	Heinrich Messner	Jules Melquiond
21	SL	1967/68	14 January 1968	Dumeng Giovanoli	Håkon Mjøen	Alfred Matt
42	SL	1968/69	12 January 1969	Reinhard Tritscher	Vladimir Sabich	Peter Frei
67	SL	1969/70	11 January 1970	Patrick Russel	Dumeng Giovanoli	Henri Bréchu
	SL	1970/71	17 January 1971	lack of snow; replaced on 17 January 1971 in St. Moritz[3]
121	SL	1971/72	23 January 1972	Jean-Noël Augert	Gustav Thöni	Bob Cochran
141	SL	1972/73	14 January 1973	Christian Neureuther	Walter Tresch	Claude Perrot
169	SL	1973/74	20 January 1974	Christian Neureuther	Fausto Radici	David Zwilling
186	SL	1974/75	12 January 1975	Ingemar Stenmark	Piero Gros	Paolo De Chiesa
187	KB		11 January 1975   12 January 1975	Gustav Thöni	David Zwilling	Walter Tresch
214	KB	1975/76	5 January 1976   9 January 1976	Walter Tresch	Piero Gros	Gustav Thöni
216	SL		11 January 1976	Ingemar Stenmark	Piero Gros	Christian Neureuther
217	KB		10 January 1976   11 January 1976	Franz Klammer	Gustav Thöni	Walter Tresch
244	SL	1976/77	23 January 1977	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt	Walter Tresch
245	KB		22 January 1977   23 January 1977	Walter Tresch	Gustav Thöni	Sepp Ferstl
272	SL	1977/78	15 January 1978	Klaus Heidegger	Petăr Popangelov	Mauro Bernardi
	KB		15 January 1978   16 January 1978	DH rescheduled due to lack of training from 14 to 16 January[4] (DH and KB finally cancelled; lack of and heavy snowfall, storm before and on the race day)
	SL	1978/79	14 January 1979	lack of snow; replaced on 9 January 1979 in Crans-Montana[5]
	KB		13 January 1979   14 January 1979	lack of snow; KB replaced on 9 January (SL) and 14 January (DH) in Crans-Montana[6][7]
332	SL	1979/80	20 January 1980	Bojan Križaj	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt
363	SL	1980/81	25 January 1981	Bojan Križaj	Marc Girardelli	Ingemar Stenmark
398	SL	1981/82	24 January 1982	Phil Mahre	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt
399	KB		19 January 1982   24 January 1982	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Ivan Pacak	Thomas Kemenater
	SL	1982/83	15 January 1983	exceptionally to be raced on part of the Lauberhorn course;[8] (But due to too much of fresh snow replaced on 11 February 1983 in Markstein)[9][10]
	SL	1983/84	15 January 1984	weather; replaced on 17 January 1984 in Parpan, counted with Wengen for KB[11][12]
	KB		14 January 1984   15 January 1984	rescheduled to 15 and 17 January due to many programm changes;[13][14] (As they moved the DH from Saturday to Sunday, they also moved cancelledMorzine's SL from Sunday to Monday; original Sunday Wengen's SL counted for KB was moved from Monday and again on Tuesday)
467	KB		15 January 1984   17 January 1984	Wengen's DH (15th) and replaced Parpan's SL (17th) together counted for KB
	KB	1984/85	19 January 1985   20 January 1985	DH cancelled due to fog and rescheduled on next day to 20 January;[15][16] (and consequently both SL and KB were postponed from 20 to 21 January)
508	SL		21 January 1985	Marc Girardelli	Ingemar Stenmark	Paul Frommelt
509	KB		20 January 1985   21 January 1985	Michel Vion	Peter Roth	Peter Lüscher
544	SL	1985/86	2 February 1986	Rok Petrovič	Didier Bouvet	Bojan Križaj
	KB		1 February 1986   2 February 1986	although SL was held; there was no combined event as downhill was cancelled
587	SL	1986/87	18 January 1987	Joël Gaspoz	Dietmar Köhlbichler	Bojan Križaj
588	KB		17 January 1987   18 January 1987	Pirmin Zurbriggen	only one skier ranked at combined event
In 1987/88 SL wasn't on calendar; only DH and SG were organised
653	SL	1988/89	21 January 1989	Rudolf Nierlich	Alberto Tomba	Hubert Strolz
654	KB		21 January 1989   22 January 1989	Marc Girardelli	Pirmin Zurbriggen	Markus Wasmeier
In 1989/90 SL wasn't on calendar; only DH and SG were organised; but rescheduled to Val d'Isere on 29 January
	SL	1990/91	20 January 1991	all cancelled after fatal crash of Gernot Reinstadler at training on 18 January[17][18]
	KB		19 January 1991   20 January 1991
748	SL	1991/92	26 January 1992	Alberto Tomba	Paul Accola	Armin Bittner
749	KB		25 January 1992   26 January 1992	Paul Accola	Günther Mader	Hubert Strolz
	SL	1992/93	24 January 1993	lack of snow; replaced in Veysonnaz on 24 January[19][20]
	KB		23 January 1993   24 January 1993	lack of snow; replaced in Veysonnaz on 23 and 24 January
In 1993/94 SL wasn't on calendar; only DH and SG were organised
848	SL	1994/95	22 January 1995	Alberto Tomba	Michael von Grünigen	Jure Košir
849	KB		21 January 1995   22 January 1995	Marc Girardelli	Lasse Kjus	Harald Strand Nilsen
	SL	1995/96	21 January 1996	lack of snow; replaced in Veysonnaz on 21 January[21]
	KB		20 January 1996   21 January 1996	lack of snow; replaced in Veysonnaz on 20 and 21 January
915	SL	1996/97	19 January 1997	Thomas Sykora	Thomas Stangassinger	Sébastien Amiez
	SL	1997/98	18 January 1998	replaced on 18 January 1996 in Veysonnaz[22]
	KB		16 January 1998   18 January 1998	Veysonnaz's SL counted for KB together with Wengen's DH on 16 January[23]
990	SL	1998/99	17 January 1999	Benjamin Raich	Michael von Grünigen	Lasse Kjus
991	KB		16 January 1999   17 January 1999	Lasse Kjus	Kjetil André Aamodt	Hermann Maier
1022	SL	1999/00	16 January 2000	Kjetil André Aamodt	Ole Kristian Furuseth	Drago Grubelnik
1061	SL	2000/01	14 January 2001	Benjamin Raich	Rainer Schönfelder	Mario Matt
	KB		13 January 2001   14 January 2001	although SL was held; there was no combined event as original downhill was cancelled
1096	SL	2001/02	13 January 2002	Ivica Kostelić	Mitja Kunc	Edoardo Zardini
1097	KB		12 January 2002   13 January 2002	Kjetil André Aamodt	Bode Miller	Lasse Kjus
1134	SL	2002/03	19 January 2003	Giorgio Rocca	Akira Sasaki	Ivica Kostelić
1135	KB		18 January 2003   19 January 2003	Kjetil André Aamodt	Bode Miller	Lasse Kjus
1168	SL	2003/04	18 January 2004	Benjamin Raich	Rainer Schönfelder	Ivica Kostelić
	KB		17 January 2004   18 January 2004	there was no KB event as DH was cancelled and rescheduled to Ga-Pa
1208	SC	2004/05	14 January 2005	Benjamin Raich	Lasse Kjus	Didier Défago
1210	SL		16 January 2005	Alois Vogl	Ivica Kostelić	Benjamin Raich
1243	SC	2005/06	13 January 2006	Benjamin Raich	Kjetil André Aamodt	Peter Fill
1245	SL		15 January 2006	Giorgio Rocca	Kalle Palander	Alois Vogl
	SC	2006/07	12 January 2007	rain and high temperatures; rescheduled in Wengen on 14 January 2007
	SL		14 January 2007	cancelled; replaced on 27 January 2007 in Kitzbühel
1281	SC		14 January 2007	Mario Matt	Marc Berthod	Silvan Zurbriggen
1315	SC	2007/08	11 January 2008	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Daniel Albrecht	Bode Miller
1316	SL		12 January 2008	Jean-Baptiste Grange	Jens Byggmark	Ted Ligety
	SL		13 January 2008	resheduled on 12 January due to heavy snow; programm switched with DH
1355	SC	2008/09	16 January 2009	Carlo Janka	Peter Fill	Silvan Zurbriggen
1357	SL		18 January 2009	Manfred Pranger	Reinfried Herbst	Ivica Kostelić
1391	SC	2009/10	15 January 2010	Bode Miller	Carlo Janka	Silvan Zurbriggen
1393	SL		17 January 2010	Ivica Kostelić	André Myhrer	Reinfried Herbst
1423	SC	2010/11	14 January 2011	Ivica Kostelić	Carlo Janka	Aksel Lund Svindal
1425	SL		16 January 2011	Ivica Kostelić	Marcel Hirscher	Jean-Baptiste Grange
1460	SC	2011/12	13 January 2012	Ivica Kostelić	Beat Feuz	Bode Miller
1462	SL		15 January 2012	Ivica Kostelić	André Myhrer	Fritz Dopfer
1506	SC	2012/13	18 January 2013	Alexis Pinturault	Ivica Kostelić	Carlo Janka
1508	SL		20 January 2013	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher	Ivica Kostelić
1538	SC	2013/14	17 January 2014	Ted Ligety	Alexis Pinturault	Natko Zrnčić-Dim
1540	SL		19 January 2014	Alexis Pinturault	Felix Neureuther	Marcel Hirscher
1573	AC	2014/15	16 January 2015	Carlo Janka	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	Ivica Kostelić
1574	SL		17 January 2015	Felix Neureuther	Stefano Gross	Henrik Kristoffersen
	SL		18 January 2015	resheduled on 17 January due to heavy snow; programm switched with DH
1609	AC	2015/16	15 January 2016	Kjetil Jansrud	Aksel Lund Svindal	Adrien Théaux
1611	SL		17 January 2016	Henrik Kristoffersen	Giuliano Razzoli	Stefano Gross
1654	AC	2016/17	13 January 2017	Niels Hintermann	Maxence Muzaton	Frederic Berthold
1655	SL		15 January 2017	Henrik Kristoffersen	Marcel Hirscher	Felix Neureuther
1692	AC	2017/18	12 January 2018	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	Pavel Trikhichev	Peter Fill
1694	SL		14 January 2018	Marcel Hirscher	Henrik Kristoffersen	André Myhrer
1729	AC	2018/19	18 January 2019	Marco Schwarz	Victor Muffat-Jeandet	Alexis Pinturault
1731	SL		20 January 2019	Clément Noël	Manuel Feller	Marcel Hirscher
1765	AC	2019/20	17 January 2020	Matthias Mayer	Alexis Pinturault	Victor Muffat-Jeandet
1767	SL		19 January 2020	Clément Noël	Henrik Kristoffersen	Aleksandr Khoroshilov
	SL	2020/21	17 January 2021	COVID-19 pandemic; replaced on 17 January 2021 in Kitzbühel
1838	SL	2021/22	16 January 2022	Lucas Braathen	Daniel Yule	Giuliano Razzoli
1874	SL	2022/23	20 January 2023	Henrik Kristoffersen	Loic Meillard	Lucas Braathen
1908	SL	2023/24	14 January 2024	Manuel Feller	Atle Lie McGrath	Henrik Kristoffersen
1947	SL	2024/25	19 January 2025	Atle Lie McGrath	Timon Haugan	Henrik Kristoffersen

 Combined shared with other venues: Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1976), Adelboden (1982), Parpan (1984) and Veysonnaz (1998). 

Club5+

In 1986, elite Club5 was originally founded by prestigious classic downhill organizers: Kitzbühel, Wengen, Garmisch, Val d’Isère and Val Gardena/Gröden, with goal to bring alpine ski sport on the highest levels possible.^[24]

Later over the years other classic longterm organizers joined the now named Club5+: Alta Badia, Cortina, Kranjska Gora, Maribor, Lake Louise, Schladming, Adelboden, Kvitfjell, St. Moritz, and Åre.^[25]