The Kaltgrat piste at dawn, seen from below the finish.

KALTGRAT

A downhill racer in a full aerodynamic tuck.
Kaltgrat · Abfahrt · 84. Auflage
FIS WC / DH / KGT · Doc 84-01

Date
17 January
Starters
Vertical
Course
Steepest
Start 11:30
The face

Der Start

A standing start straight onto injected ice.

Length
240 m
Gradient
42%
Entry speed
0 km/h
The trace

The winning run, plotted.

Time
1:11.84
Average
103 km/h
Peak
142 km/h
Airborne
4.1 s

It peaks entering the Zielschuss, where the course stops asking questions and simply requires that nobody moves.

Equipment

What is allowed down this face.

Eight things, measured in the start hut on race morning. Nothing here is a guideline, and a suit that reads under thirty is withdrawn rather than adjusted.

Downhill racing equipment laid out and photographed from above.
Start list

Sixty-eight down the same ice.

Red group · first fifteen
BibAthleteNationStart

And 53 more, seeded on FIS points and drawn in reverse order. The red group runs first because the ice is only ever this good once.

The mountain

Where to stand.

Four zones on the face and one of them is already gone. Gondola times are from the village station. First lift 07:20.

Aerial view of the Kaltgrat face, the piste running through spruce forest.
The Kaltgrat finish arena at dusk, crowd along the barriers.
Entry

Three waves. One is already gone.

Wave 01Sold out

CHF 45

Finish arena, standing. Released 12 September and gone in nine minutes.

Wave 02On sale

CHF 68

Zielschuss bank and finish arena, with the gondola from the village until 10:00.

Wave 0314 January

CHF 68

Released only if the Zange holds. If the course is shortened this wave does not open at all.