| bgcolor=#b0c4de colspan=2 align="center" | Miranova proga A | |
|---|---|---|
full slope in snow (right sleeve from top to valley) | ||
| Place: | Maribor, Slovenia | |
| Mountain: | Pohorje | |
| Member: | Club5+ | |
| Opened: | January 1978 | |
| Competition: | Golden Fox | |
| bgcolor=#b0c4de colspan=2 align="center" | Giant slalom | |
| Start: | 740m (2,430feet) (AA) | |
| Finish: | 340m (1,120feet) | |
| Vertical drop: | 400m (1,300feet) | |
| Most wins: |  Anja Pärson (2x)Martina Ertl (2x) Tina Maze (2x) Sonja Nef (2x) | |
| bgcolor=#b0c4de colspan=2 align="center" | Slalom | |
| Start: | 540m (1,770feet) (AA) | |
| Finish: | 340m (1,120feet) | |
| Vertical drop: | 200m (700feet) | |
| Most wins: | Vreni Schneider (6x) |
Part of Mariborsko Pohorje Ski Resort, the largest ski course in Slovenia, the slope is divided on upper part (GS start – Trikotna jasa) and lower part (SL start – Snow stadium finish).
Not counting ski slopes in Scandinavia with very cold winters, this is the course with lowest finish elevation on the World Cup circuit, at above sea level.
In 1978, competition moved from the upper "Old F.I.S" ("stara F.I.S"), incredibly steep and even too demanding slope at the top station next to Bellevue Hotel to the new slope in valley, direct into the city.[2]
The Old slope was narrow with difficult access for a live audience, which had difficulty watching and standing on dangerous and icy steep inclines, with a small finish area.
For the next five years (1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983) competition was again, and for the last time, moved to the upper old FIS slope, due to lack of snow and warm weather.
In 1984, competition returned on this slope permanently, often with replacements in Kranjska Gora (1988, 1991, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021) due to snow.
In 1987, the "Snow Stadium" (finish area) was bulldozed and completely redone; the terrain was lifted and flattened for easier access and more comfortable standing.
In 1994, Urška Hrovat won Saturday's replaced slalom in front of home crowd of 30,000, with a total attendance of 50,000 over three days. Real Fox fur trophy was awarded for the last time, due to animal rights controversy.[3] [4]
In 1995, Vreni Schneider won the record 6th Golden Fox trophy award and record 7th individual win. Slalom as first WC event ever, was split in two days due to rain, with 1st run on Sunday and 2nd on Monday.[5]
In 1996, two giants slaloms (first replaced Lake Louise) and slalom visited 40,000 people in three days. Saturday's GS set women's World Cup TV ratings record with 17.6 million viewers in total.[6]
In 1997, a new Arena hotel opened in the finish area and Urška Hrovat took Golden Fox Trophy. Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of International Olympic Committee was among the spectators.[7]
For the first time, the OC put the Golden Fox on the internet, something new for the World Cup. In two days, the Golden Fox page had over 1500 contacts from all over the world.
In 1998, Golden Fox was cancelled – the only time in its history without being replaced (in Kranjska Gora or any other venue).
In 1999, Slovenia hosted speed disciplines for the first and only time in history of World Cup, which should be on schedule on New Year's Day, but rescheduled on the next day.[8]
In 2005, Tina Maze won first giant slalom in history of this competition, with a total attendance of 20,000 for two days. In 2009, Maze won her second giant slalom in Maribor, with an attendance of 15,000 over two days. By the analysis of INFRONT media group, Golden Fox had over 200 million TV viewers in total, the most watched World Cup broadcast of the season, both men and women, beating even Kitzbühel. 187 million in footages (69 stations and 77 hours). Live broadcast was seen by a total of 21 million people (6 million have seen giant slalom and 15 million slalom).[9]
In 2013, Maze took her third win here by taking slalom in front of 19,000 people. She also won the Golden Fox trophy as the third Slovenian after Mateja Svet and Urška Hrovat. And over 40,000 people attended in two days.[10] [11]
In 2021, they decided to prepare and build additional slope on higher altitude on crossing, combined and widened with existing upper part of the slope, due to unstable weather conditions and lack of snow in the valley. The new reserve start will be at the top of famous ex Habakuk lift, continued by right side bypassing Luka cabin, then going lower to Špelca log, then joining existing upper GS slope, widening lower part cutting the forest, ending with finish area at Trikotna jasa (traditional slalom start).[12]
All but yellow labeled counted for traditional Zlata Lisica (Golden Fox) fur trophy, the best combined time of SL and GS.
| Type | Season | Winner | Second | Third | Golden Fox | Note | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 262 | SL | bgcolor=gainsboro align=center | 1977/78 |  Lea Sölkner |  Hanni Wenzel | premiere; replaced "Old F.I.S." slope | |||
| align=right rowspan=6 bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | SL | bgcolor=gainsboro align=center | 1978/79 | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 rowspan=6 | lack of snow and high temperatures; moved to the upper "Old F.I.S." slope under Bellevue Hotel (Top gondola station) | |||||
| SL | bgcolor=gainsboro align=center | 1979/80 | ||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1980/81 | ||||||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| SL | bgcolor=gainsboro align=center | 1981/82 | ||||||||
| SL | bgcolor=gainsboro align=center | 1982/83 | ||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 421 | SL | bgcolor=gainsboro align=center | 1983/84 |  Erika Hess | permanent move to "Miranova proga A" | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 464 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1984/85 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Erika Hess | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 465 | SL | Brigitte Gadient | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 494 | SL | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=3 align=center | 1985/86 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Vreni Schneider | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 495 | GS | Marina Kiehl | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 496 | KB | Marina Kiehl | align=center style=color:#696969 | this was not Golden Fox race | GS combined with Val d'Isère (DH) | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1986/87 | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 | not held due to rain | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 536 | SL | Camilla Nilsson | |||||||
| align=right rowspan=3 bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1987/88 | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 rowspan=2 | lack of snow and high temperatures; replaced in Kranjska Gora | |||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1988/89 | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 | lack of snow | ||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 592 | SL | Vreni Schneider | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 629 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1989/90 | Mateja Svet | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 630 | SL |  Patricia Chauvet | |||||||
| align=right rowspan=3 bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1990/91 | align=center style=color:#696969 rowspan=2 colspan=5 | lack of snow and high temperatures; replaced in Kranjska Gora | |||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1991/92 | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 | lack of snow; replaced in Piancavallo on 20 January 1992 | ||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 687 | SL | Vreni Schneider | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 712 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1992/93 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 713 | SL | ||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 755 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=3 align=center | 1993/94 | Vreni Schneider (GS + SL 2) | Golden Fox (GS combined with SL 2) | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 756 | SL |  Marianne Kjørstad | align=center style=color:#696969 | this was not Golden Fox race | SL 1 replaced the event in Germany (it did not count for Golden Fox) | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 757 | SL | Vreni Schneider (SL 2 + GS) | Golden Fox (SL 2 combined with GS) | ||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 791 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1994/95 | Vreni Schneider | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 792 | SL | 1st run (26 January); 2nd off (rain); second run replaced (27 January) | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 816 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=3 align=center | 1995/96 | Katja Seizinger | align=center style=color:#696969 | this was not Golden Fox race | GS 1 replaced the Lake Louise (it did not count for Golden Fox) | ||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 817 | GS | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 818 | SL | ||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 847 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1996/97 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 |  Urška Hrovat | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 848 | SL |  Lara Magoni | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EDCCD5" rowspan=3 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1997/98 | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 rowspan=2 colspan=5 | lack of snow and high temperatures; both events replaced in Bormio | |||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| SG | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=4 align=center | 1998/99 | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | Super-G cancelled due to fog on 1 January 1999; replaced on the next day with double schedule (first SG, then GS) | ||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 917 | SG | align=center style=color:#696969 | this was not Golden Fox race | ||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 918 | GS | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 919 | SL | ||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 952 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 1999/00 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Sonja Nef | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 953 | SL | Sabine Egger | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 994 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | SL | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 | cancelled due to high temperatures and rain | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1024 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=3 align=center | 2001/02 | Sonja Nef (GS + SL 2) | Golden Fox (GS combined with SL 2) | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1025 | SL | Laure Pequegnot | align=center style=color:#696969 | this was not Golden Fox race | SL 1 replaced the Megève (it did not count for Golden Fox) | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1026 | SL | Sonja Nef | Sonja Nef (SL 2 + GS) | Golden Fox (SL 2 combined with GS) | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1067 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2002/03 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Anja Pärson | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1068 | SL | Nicole Hosp | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1098 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2003/04 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Anja Pärson | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1099 | SL | Nicole Hosp | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1135 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2004/05 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Anja Pärson | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1136 | SL |  Tanja Poutiainen | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2005/06 | align=center colspan=5 style=color:#696969 | cancelled due to snow, rain and fog; replaced in Ofterschwang on 3 February 2006 | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1160 | SL | Marlies Schild | |||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2006/07 | align=center rowspan=2 style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | lack of snow and high temperatures; replaced in Kranjska Gora | ||||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1233 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2007/08 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Nicole Hosp | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1234 | SL | Marlies Schild | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1265 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2008/09 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 |  Maria Höfl-Riesch | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1266 | SL | Tanja Poutiainen | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1304 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2009/10 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Kathrin Zettel | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1305 | SL | Maria Riesch | |||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2010/11 | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | interrupted and cancelled during first run after 25 skiers due to high temperatures | ||||||
| SL | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | cancelled due to high temperatures | ||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2011/12 | align=center rowspan=2 style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | lack of snow and high temperatures; replaced in Kranjska Gora | ||||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1411 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2012/13 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Tina Maze | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1412 | SL | ||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2013/14 | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | lack of snow; moved to Kranjska Gora and cancelled due to heavy snowfall; then finally replaced in Åre | ||||||
| SL | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | lack of snow; replaced in Kranjska Gora on originally scheduled calendar date | ||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1475 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2014/15 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 |  Mikaela Shiffrin | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1476 | SL | ||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1509 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2015/16 | Viktoria Rebensburg | |||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EDCCD5" | SL | align=center style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | warm temperatures and poor track conditions; replaced in Crans-Montana in 15 February 2016 | |||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1543 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2016/17 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Mikaela Shiffrin | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1544 | SL | Frida Hansdotter | |||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2017/18 | align=center rowspan=2 style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | lack of snow and high temperatures; replaced in Kranjska Gora | ||||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1626 | GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2018/19 | bgcolor=#E6E6FA rowspan=2 | Mikaela Shiffrin | ||||
| align=right bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 1627 | SL | Wendy Holdener | |||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2019/20 | align=center rowspan=6 style=color:#696969 colspan=5 | lack of snow and high temperatures; replaced in Kranjska Gora | ||||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2020/21 | ||||||||
| SL | ||||||||||
| GS | bgcolor=gainsboro rowspan=2 align=center | 2021/22 | ||||||||
| SL |
Many terms (lifts and slopes have different names) appears for this course which is a bit misleading:
In 1986, elite Club5 was originally founded by prestigious classic downhill organizers: Kitzbühel, Wengen, Garmisch, Val d’Isère and Val Gardena/Gröden, with goal to bring alpine ski sport on the highest levels possible.[14]
Later, over the years, other classic long-term organizers joined the now named Club5+: Alta Badia, Cortina, Kranjska Gora, Maribor, Lake Louise, Schladming, Adelboden, Kvitfjell, St.Moritz and Åre.[15]