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Planai (ski course)
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Planai is a World Cup ski course, located on the same name mountain and ski resort in Schladming, Styria, Austria. It opened in 1973.
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Since 1997 it has regularly hosted night slalom, the highest attended in the circuit with 50,000 people each year.
Course hosted two World Championships in 1982 and 2013 and the World Cup season final in 2012.
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History
Planai opened in 1973 with a downhill event, won by Franz Klammer. Until the end of the decade and through the 1980s, all disciplines were regularly held on this course.
In 1982, they organized the Alpine World Ski Championships for the first time, with all men's events and only a giant slalom event for women held on the course.
In 1988, they replaced the originally scheduled resorts of Les Menuires (women) and Val Thorens (men) as the season opening venue at the last minute, due to weather conditions.[1]
In 1990, they organized the last World Cup weekend with a downhill, slalom and combined events, before a 7-year break and entering a new era.
In 1997, Planai organized their first slalom under floodlight. Since then this has become the most visited and most spectacular slalom in the world.[2]
In 2013, they organized the 2nd Alpine World Ski Championships, having completely renovated the finish area with a notable arc of steel.
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World Championships
Men's events
Location in Austria
Women's events
Team event
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Alpine team event
Not in original calendar. It replaced women's GS from Les Menuires (1988), men's GS from Val Thorens (1988) and SL from Flachau (2022).
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Club5+
In 1986, the elite Club5 was originally founded by prestigious classic downhill organizers: Kitzbühel, Wengen, Garmisch, Val d’Isère and Val Gardena/Gröden, with the goal to bring alpine ski sport on the highest levels possible.[3]
Later, other classic longterm organizers joined the now named Club5+: Alta Badia, Cortina, Kranjska Gora, Maribor, Lake Louise, Schladming, Adelboden, Kvitfjell, St. Moritz and Åre.[4]
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