Identification of the optimal racing line for top male athletes on a segment of a World Cup downhill alpine ski slope using tracking data

• Main Authors: Martin Gallimore (Author), Edouard Koehn (Author), Mario Schlegel (Author), Leon Stillhard (Author), Andreas Vetsch (Author), Björn Peter Bruhin (Author), Martin J. Bünner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Bern Open Publishing, 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Using tracking data we can identify the optimal racing line for top male athletes on the famous S-curved segment (Brueggli-S) of the downhill FIS world cup track "Lauberhorn" in Switzerland. For this, we have measured and analysed training runs, measured on a single day, of 10 world class...