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    Mathias Zdarsky (Czech: Matyáš Žďárský; 25 February 1856 – 20 June 1940) was an early ski pioneer and founder of modern Alpine skiing technique: Arnold...
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  • Zdarsky is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Chip Zdarsky (born 1975), Canadian comics creator Mathias Zdarsky (1856–1940), Austrian skier...
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    (UK-APC) altered the name of this mountain in 1959 to Mount Zdarsky. It is named for Mathias Zdarsky, the Austrian pioneer exponent of ski-mountaineering, inventor...
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    ski, employed a "long-thong" strap. Further innovations included: Mathias Zdarsky's development of a ski binding that replaced the heel strap with a long...
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  • Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian and academic (d. 1915) 1856 – Mathias Zdarsky, Czech-Austrian skier, painter, and sculptor (d. 1940) 1857 – Robert...
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    official Alpine Ski Race, which was won by ski pioneer, Czech-born Mathias Zdarsky. Leo Karner (born 1952), former cyclist, competed in the team time...
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    were abandoned in the Oslo championships at Huseby and Holmenkollen. Mathias Zdarsky's development of the Lilienfeld binding helped change hill races into...
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    emerged around 1900 from how skiing was practiced up until then when Mathias Zdarsky advocated the "Lilienfelder Ski Method" as an alternative to the Norwegian...
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    alpine terrain. In December 1916, with the help of Georg Bilgeri and Mathias Zdarsky, the establishment of mountain guide companies began. Among the alpine...
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    Czech-born ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky. On March 19, 1905 the first official Alpine Ski Race was held on Muckenkogel. It was won by Zdarsky. Today, the mountain...
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