Lunn, Sir Arnold

Lunn, Sir Arnold

▪ British athlete
original name  Arnold Henry Moore Lunn 
born April 18, 1888, Madras, India
died June 2, 1974, London, Eng.

      British slalom skier and international authority on skiing who in 1922 introduced slalom gates (paired poles between which the skier must pass on his downward descent) and thereby created the modern Alpine slalom race.

      Lunn was introduced to skiing as a boy by his father, a Methodist minister who founded a travel agency that promoted skiing in Switzerland. At the University of Oxford he founded the Oxford Ski Club and later the Ski Club of Great Britain (1903), the Alpine Ski Club (1908), and the Kandahar Ski Club (1924). He helped organize the Anglo-Swiss University match of 1925 to popularize the slalom course. In 1930 he convinced the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) to recognize competition in the slalom as well as in the downhill, and in 1936 he assisted in the organization of the events for the Winter Olympic Games. He served as a member of the FIS executive committee (1934–49) and as chairman of the International Downhill Ski Racing Committee (1946–49). Lunn was editor of British Ski Yearbook from 1919 for more than 50 years and wrote many books on skiing, mountaineering, philosophy, and Christianity. He was knighted in 1952 for service to British skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations.

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