Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race

March 1-3, 2013

Opening Ceremony 2013

Overall Result 2013

Results by Class 2013

Team Results 2013

The Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race is held in early March every year since 1997 at Mount Cranmore in North Conway, New Hampshire. The event combines the best of skiing today with the warm nostalgia of yesterday. It honors a founding father of downhill skiing and the mountain resort business, Austrian Skimeister Hannes Schneider, who brought his world-renowned skills to North Conway and Mount Cranmore in 1939. Schneider introduced skiing fun and excitement to millions around the globe.

If you can turn around a few gates on intermediate terrain on alpine or telemark skis or a snowboard, you are invited to participate in the race…and win! The fastest male and female finishers in ten age classes take home unique awards, as do the fastest telemark, snowboard, and junior racers. Teams of five racers compete for the Meister Cup Trophy, with winners’ names engraved on the award which is on display in the New England Ski Museum.

Meister Cup racer

Competition is intense at the highest level, but for most racers the event is a simple fun run down a gentle racecourse on a day of slopeside pageantry and social events. Past racers have ranged in age from 4 to 95.

Hannes Schneider was an Austrian mountain soldier in World War I and his son Herbert Schneider was a member of the 10^th Mountain Division in World War II. The Meister Cup pays tribute to American mountain soldiers with a special military class, in which active duty soldiers of the 10^thMountain Division and the Army Mountain Warfare School usually participate.

Active duty 10th Mountain Division soldiers from Fort Drum, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Carroll Reed Cup, awarded to the fastest team made up of racers from the ski resort industry, honors the ski business pioneer whose early Eastern Slope Ski School provided the basis for Hannes Schneider’s arrival in 1939.

10th Mountain Division veterans at the 2010 event

Apart from the ski race, the Hannes Schneider Meister Cup features a full slate of weekend social activities including a welcome reception and buffet, the opening ceremony, an ice carving contest, a silent auction with a variety of items for skiers, the popular wear-your-own vintage skiwear show, the awards ceremony, and a ski history presentation. Whether you race it or watch it, the Meister Cup has something for everyone.

Winners of the Rooster Cup

Vintage skiwear contest

Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Results

Overall Results 2012

Results by Class 2012

Team Results 2012

 

 

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