Alpine Skiing FIS World Championships 2017

[dcro 10,210]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Just in case that someone from FIS is reading this, do not put some weird intermediate sprints in that mass start.

[Gianlu33 5,303]

Again a 4th place  What luck for us  

[heywoodu 16,060]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Just in case that someone from FIS is reading this, do not put some weird intermediate sprints in that mass start.

[August 0]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

German coach on TV: "The winners are the deserved winners, because they were the fastest."

 

And that's how it is  

 

Exactly. Even though I'm not sure today's results represent so well who the most complete skiers in downhill and slalom combined are.

 

Starting order is the issue here. But if you don't reverse the top 30 for slalom, folks would switch their TVs off after 10 skiers.

 

Doing slalom first could be the solution here. You'd have all the top combi skiers starting early in the slalom, then the downhill is pretty neutral in terms of start numbers.

[EselTheDonkey 834]

vor 3 Stunden schrieb hckosice:

Klaudia Nemcová 26th in the GS qualification, thats what I call heartbreaking

 

Looks like our teams will meet in the First Round of the Team Event. Is Slovakia competing with Vlhova und Velez-Zuzulova? If so,  it might be a 50:50 race with your women and our men being the favourites in their runs.

[hckošice 15,599]

FIS ALPINE SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

2017

 

 

 

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Men's Alpine Combined
Final Results

 

AERNI Luca
2:26.331:41.86+44.47

 

HIRSCHER Marcel
2:26.341:41.55+44.79

 

CAVIEZEL Mauro
2:26.391:40.30+46.09

 

 

Swiss strike again: Aerni golden in combined

 

The Swiss had another amazing day at the 2017 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships after Luca Aerni earned the alpine combined gold medal. His teammate Mauro Caviezel took home the bronze medal, bringing the medal tally for the host nation to six in as many races.

 

Aerni, who was named as the last Swiss racer for the alpine combined team just last night, finished in 30^th place in the downhill run, making him the first starter for the slalom run. He clocked the fastest time of the day in the slalom, although did not know if his run would hold off the top names like Marcel Hirscher and Alexis Pinturault and had to sit through the entire field waiting in the leader box.

 

But one-by-one his competition came down and could not best the young Swiss ace. Hirscher missed the mark by the smallest of all possible margins, 0.01 seconds, taking home the silver medal. Swiss teammate Mauro Caviezel, meanwhile, also came very close, ending just 0.06 seconds off the golden pace for the bronze.

 

“I was really nervous the last 45 minutes waiting for everyone to finish," said Aerni. "I could only watch and hope as the others came down. I knew my slalom run was good, but with the combined you never know what will happen. It was definitely a long wait until I realized I had the gold medal."

 

Romed Baumann (AUT) held the lead after the downhill run, 0.12 ahead of Frenchman Adrien Theaux. Most of the traditional slalom skiers sat more than a second off the pace after the downhill run. The best speed racers were Dominik Paris and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who tied for fourth place 0.40 seconds behind.

 

The three medalists were also the three racers with the best slalom times. Hirscher was 28^th after the downhill and Caviezel was 14^th.

It was the first medal for both of the Swiss skiers, who also both have never earned a podium place in the World Cup. It was Hirscher’s fifth career World Championship medal, as he now has three silvers and two golds.

 

Tomorrow is Nations Team Event, which begins at 12:00 CET. It is sure to be of great interest to the public with the event newly added to the Olympic programme for the 2018 PyeongChang Games.

 

 

 

Full Results Here

 

Luca Aerni

Alpine Combined World Champion 2017

(2nd Run)

 

Marcel Hirscher

2nd Run

 

Race Replay

1st Run

2nd Run

 

 

 

[hckošice 15,599]

34 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

 

Looks like our teams will meet in the First Round of the Team Event. Is Slovakia competing with Vlhova und Velez-Zuzulova? If so,  it might be a 50:50 race with your women and our men being the favourites in their runs.

 

yes in the first list we wrote Velez-Zuzulová, Vlhová and both Žampa Brothers. but Adam is still questionable, not sure he´ll be even able to stand on skis tomorrow, so we´ll see

[hckošice 15,599]

16 Countries will compete in tomorrows Team Event here the start list per Country http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2017/AL/1552/2017AL1552SLR0.pdf

 

and the brackets http://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2017/AL/1552/2017AL1552SLL.pdf

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