The fastest speed ever achieved in a cold sport belongs to alpine skiing , in the modality of the kilometer thrown, in which the Frenchman Philippe Gotischel descended in 2002 to 250.79 km / h , about five times faster than he usually reaches a normal skier. Without getting off the skis, although this time with much thinner and more fragile ones, the Nordic ski record is at 77 km / h, while the usual is to go at 20 km / h. With a snowboard , 200 km / h have been achieved, the same speed as bobsleighs , those racing cars that go down the inside of twisty ice tunnels. The same ones where the sleds manage to descend to 148 km / h . When it comes to sliding on the ice, blade skates have allowed their champions to travel over 53 km / h. A far cry from the 100 km / h that has been exceeded with in-line roller skates, although more than double the 25 km / h that a good ice skater can achieve. Already aboard motorized devices, a snowmobile has reached a speed of 291 km / h.
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