DATES & GENERAL INFORMATION:
Mark your calendars. The world’s best ski racers will return to Vail and Beaver Creek February 3-15 as the International Ski Federation (FIS) Council confirmed the dates for the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships during their November meetings in Oberhofen, Switzerland.
The 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are expected to showcase athletes from over 70 nations, with an estimated 1 billion worldwide television viewers and an onsite media and broadcast entourage of approximately 1,500 members.
The Championships’ competitions will officially get underway on a Tuesday and conclude on a Sunday, covering 13 days, including two weekends, in the process. The event will showcase five men’s and five women’s individual races, along with the Nation’s Team event, featuring a parallel Giant Slalom format.
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ENTERTAINMENT & RACING VENUES:
When the world returns to the Vail Valley in just four short years, Vail will serve as the hub of all World Championships’ Ceremonies and Festival Events, while Beaver Creek will play host to all of the racing action.
Under this plan, Vail’s Golden Peak will play host to Opening Ceremonies, all official medal ceremonies, the Festival Stadium with nightly functions and snowboard and freestyle exhibition events, along with the men’s Qualification Races for Giant Slalom and Slalom and national team training. Vail Village will also come alive with street concerts and parties, a big screen stadium, national team hospitality houses and athlete lodging.
The 13 days of training and racing will take place in Beaver Creek, complete with a new women’s Downhill racecourse adjacent to the current Birds of Prey men’s course, and an expanded Red Tail Finish Stadium. The ladies’ Giant Slalom and Slalom will be contested on a new course running down Raven Ridge that will also finish in the new Red Tail Stadium.
Plans for the new women’s Downhill course, the Raven Ridge expansion and the Red Tail enhancements have been submitted to the U.S. Forest Service for approval. If all goes well, the plan is to have everything complete by the fall of 2013.
Vail and Beaver Creek won the right to host the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships on June 3 at the FIS Congress in Antalya, Turkey. The 2015 event will mark the third time the Vail Valley has hosted the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships.
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