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Event 24/81 ALPINE SKIING Women´s Slalom: 1. Emma Sahlin 1:29.82 2. Lena Volken 1:30.00 3. Lara Klein 1:30.25 Full Final Result HERE

That´s really great. Looks for a very nice result inside the top 10. Finally something positve from the juniors biathlon categories hopefully she will be able to continue her progress.

Mixed NOC´s 3x3 Ice Hockey Tournament finals : M Green vs Red W Black vs Yellow medals secured for Peter Repčík (Red) and Nikola Janeková (Black) congrats

Some skimo fans are really crazy, this one was cheering literally with his chainsaw...and nobody was even uneasy or a bit concerned

Event 23/81 SKI MOUNTAINEERING Mixed Relay: 1. SWITZERLAND 35:07 Caroline Ulrich Thomas Bussard Thibe Deseyn Robin Bussard 2. FRANCE 37:11 Victoire Berger Bazil Ducouret Margot Ravinel Anselme Damevin 3. SPAIN 37:13 Maria Costa Diez Marc Radua Ivern Ares Torra Gendrau Ot Ferrer Martinez Full Final Result HERE

Event 22/81 BIATHLON Men´s 7.5km Sprint: 1. Marcin Zawol 19:23.8 (0+1) 2. Denis Irodov 19:36.4 (0+1) 3. Vegard Thon 19:42.3 (0+1) Full Final Result HERE

Team Day 4 Return in Pics Day 5 Schedule

Team Day 4 Results "Goalie" Ivana Látková (Team Brown), Zuzana Dobiášová (Team Blue) and Nikola Janeková (Team Black), 3 our girls that helped their respective teams to qualify for the Semifinals of the Mixed NOC´s 3vs3 Ice Hockey Tournament, 1 of Látková or Janeková is even assured to play for the Gold since their teams will face in the semifinal tomorrow... and since the coincidences are really rare... the same happened also in the Men´s tournament. 3 our boys will play the Semifinals tomorrow the Team Brown netminder Rastislav Eliáš will face the Red team of Peter Repčík and Adam Sýkora with his Black team will play in the final four as well. Congrats to all !

and the Women´s Semifinals are Black vs Brown Blue vs Yellow and for the prediction contest, the answer is YES. like among boys also 2 SVK girls are already assured to medal, since just like among the boys 3 of the 4 semifinalists have in their roster a girl. Nikola Janeková for Black, Zuzana Dobiašová for Blue and the Brown GK is Ivana Látková.

Tuesday January 14th, 2020 - Preliminary Round Day 2 Schedule (GMT +2) LIVESTREAM Group A: 17:00 Iceland vs Mexico 20:30 Bulgaria vs New Zealand Group B: 10:00 Turkey vs South Africa 13:30 Chinese Taipei vs Australia 

Monday January 13th, 2020 - Preliminary Round Day 1 RESULTS (GMT +2) Group A: 17:00 Mexico 5 - 0 New Zealand 20:30 Bulgaria 3 - 4 Iceland Provisional Standing After Day1: 1. 3 2. 3 -------------- 3. 0 4. 0 Group B: 10:00 Turkey 3 - 0 Chinese Taipei 13:30 Australia 6 - 1 South Africa Provisional Standing After Day1: 1. 3 2. 3 -------------- 3. 0 4. 0

M 3x3 Ice Hockey Mixed NOC´s semifinals are known Green vs Black Brown vs Red ps. for the prediction contest, already 2 slovak boys are assured to medal, since 3 of the 4 semifinalists have a player (Adam Sýkora for Black, Peter Repčík for Red and the team Brown GK is Rastislav Eliáš from HC Košice ) Hard luck for the last 4th slovak guy in the competition Patrik Melicher finished with his team Grey in 5th place as the first under the line becuase of the lost h-2-h match against the Black team (both finished with 12 points the round-robin)

PROVISIONAL STANDING AFTER DAY 4 Monday 13.01.2020 Total Medal Events: 7 Cumulative Medal Events: 21 1. RUS 4 - 5 - 2 2. SUI 4 - 3 - 3 3. JPN 3 - 1 - 1 4. FRA 2 - 2 - 3 5. AUT 2 - 1 - 2 6. NED 2 - 0 - 0 7. ITA 1 - 3 - 0 8. ESP 1 - 1 - 1 9. SWE 1 - 0 - 2 10. NOR 1 - 0 - 0 -. KOR 1 - 0 - 0 12. CHN 0 - 1 - 2 13. ISR 0 - 1 - 1 14. FIN 0 - 1 - 0 -. SLO 0 - 1 - 0 16. USA 0 - 0 - 2 17. BLR 0 - 0 - 1 -. GEO 0 - 0 - 1

Event 21/81 FIGURE SKATING Women´s Singles: 1. You Young 214.00 2. Kseniia Sinitsyna 200.03 3. Anna Frolova 187.82 Full Final Result HERE

Event 20/81 ALPINE SKIING Men´s Giant Slalom: 1. Philip Hoffmann 2:06.31 2. Sandro Zurbruegg 2:08.85 3. Luc Roduit 2:08.89 Full Final Result HERE

Event 19/81 SPEED SKATING Men´s 1500m: 1. Motonaga Arito 1:52.24 2. Pavel Taran 1:53.74 3. Jonathan Tobon 1:55.67 Full Final Result HERE

Event 18/81 FIGURE SKATING Mixed Ice Dance: 1. RUSSIA 164.63 Irina Khavronina Dario Cirisano 2. RUSSIA 159.15 Sofya Tyutyunina Alexander Shustitskiy 3. UNITED STATES 152.43 Katarina Wolfkostin Jeffrey Chen Full Final Result HERE

Event 17/81 SPEED SKATING Women´s 1500m: 1. Myrthe De Boer 2:10.44 2. Yuka Takahashi 2:10.58 3. Yang Binyu 2:10.93 Full Final Result HERE

Event 16/81 SKI MOUNTAINEERING Men´s Sprint: 1. Rocco Baldini 2:30.14 2. Luca Tomasoni 2:38.01 3. Ot Ferrer Martinez 2:43.28 Full Final Result HERE

Event 15/81 SKI MOUNTAINEERING Women´s Sprint: 1. Maria Costa Diez 3:22.45 2. Silvia Berra 3:24.98 3. Margot Ravinel 3:25.85 Full Final Result HERE

SonderjyskE wins first Continental Cup for Denmark Danish small-town club SonderjyskE Vojens wrote history for its country by becoming the first club from Denmark to win an IIHF-sanctioned European club competition. In front of 4,107 fans on home ice at Fros Arena, SonderjyskE made it three wins in three games after beating Cracovia Krakow 3-1. The win also gives SonderjyskE Vojens a ticket to the Champions Hockey League for the 2020/2021 season. “It’s an unbelievable experience. We’re so proud of this weekend and finally in the history book. We’re the first team from Denmark to win this, so we’re very proud. We always believed it. It was our goal [to win the Continental Cup] and we finally made it,” said Daniel Nielsen, who scored two of the three goals. “We were so pumped. We were ready to go. I had a lucky bounde on the second goal but I take it.” The start was important in this game. SonderjyskE Vojens had to go to overtime the night before while Cracovia Krakow was destined to finish in last place no matter what result even though the players were determined not to finish with another loss. The Danes started well and in the 4th minute occupied the Cracovia zone for a while and with several shots. Eventually the puck went in when Frederik Bjerrum’s shot from the right boards was deflected by MacGregor Sharp. “It’s nice to get to a good start in a game like this. That’s huge. It’s an unreal feeling [to win the Continental Cup]. We beat some pretty good hockey clubs this weekend in all three games. I’m proud of the team. We were underdogs but we all believed and it happened,” team captain Sharp said. “Having home ice is huge. We’ve some of the best fans I’ve seen. It keeps the energy going especially on the third day to win three on three.” Cracovia was in defence mode while the SonderjyskE players bombarded Cracovia goaltender Miroslav Kopriva from all angles. It took almost eight minutes until Cracovia had something like a shot on goal. The shot count was 13-0 by then. However, Cracovia improved during the period and had chances itself when the host club became undisciplined. Bjerrum and Konsta Makinen for hooking and Mike Little for delaying the game all took “easy” penalties within just 65 seconds giving Cracovia a lengthy 5-on-3. But the Poles didn’t capitalize on it and ended the situation when Marek Tvrdon earned himself an unnecessary hooking call. Goaltender Nicolaj Henriksen helped his team in this situation and was close to a shutout with his 28 saves. “It was pretty easy for me. They didn’t have a lot of big chances. Big shout out to the defence,” Henriksen said. “It is kind of a dream come true. Not every day do you get the chance to win a European cup, it’s just amazing!” SonderjyskE came out with energy from the dressing room again when the second period started. Cracovia had trouble getting the puck out of the zone against an aggressively forechecking Danish line. Daniel Hansen got the puck at the end boards after hitting Cracovia defenceman Marek Pac and Daniel Nielsen converted it to increase the lead to 2-0. History repeated in the third period when the puck went in after already 50 seconds. While playing 4-on-4 Daniel Nielsen coming from the right found a small gap between Kopriva’s pad and the goal post to make it a three-goal cushion for SonderjyskE. Cracovia Krakow like in the other games kept up and was fighting but lacked efficiency in front of the net. Adam Domogala managed to spoil Henriksen’s shutout when he scored with 106 seconds left to play after a centering pass from Mateusz Bepierszcz but it was too little too late. With SonderjyskE’s first European club trophy Denmark became the 12th country after Slovakia, Switzerland, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Austria, France, Ukraine, Norway, Great Britain and Kazakhstan to have a Continental Cup winner. IIHF.COM

Japan storms to gold Japan’s dazzling skills and lightning speed brightened up a grey and rainy week in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, as they raced through the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division II Group A with an unblemished record. In front of a full house of 2,387 at the Pramogu Arena, Japan defeated hosts Lithuania 5-2 during the final game of the tournament to secure the gold medals and promotion to the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group B. Japan’s first line led the way against Lithuania, with centreman Teruto Nakajima flanked by forwards Yu Sato and Chikara Hanzawa notching three points each. Nakajima was also the tournament’s top scorer with 5+8 in five games while Hanzawa - voted Best Forward of the tournament - followed closely on 7+5. Earlier in the U20 Division IIA, Japan had opened their promotion campaign by beating Great Britain 6-3 before blanking both Romania and Spain 8-0 and then scoring double digits against Serbia in a 10-2 win. Being in a class of their own in Vilnius, Japan found the back of the net on 37 occasions while conceding only seven in five games. Netminder Eiki Sato was selected as the Best Goaltender of the tournament, aided by solid defending that saw Japan go through a spell of 134:23 minutes without conceding a goal. Heading into their Sunday night showdown against hosts Lithuania, Japan needed a single point to finish top. Lithuania, on the other hand, required a regular-time win to leapfrog Great Britain and Japan and get their hands on the gold medals. The new President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, had barely taken his seat next to Dainius Zubrus, Lithuania’s hockey president and legend, up on the tribune before Japan had opened the scoring. 17-year-old Yu Sato saw his effort find a way past an unlucky Nikita Kuzminov and into Lithuania’s net after just 13 seconds. Buoyed by their dream start, Japan soon after staved off a two-minute minor penalty as Lithuania battled energetically with high forechecking in an attempt to put pressure on Japan’s build up play. Heading into the halfway stage of the first frame, Japan doubled their lead as Rioto Takeya snapped a shot from the right boards through traffic fooling Kuzminov after 9:28. Backed by a sea and yellow and black up the stands supporting their home favourites, Lithuania’s uphill struggle became steeper with 4:11 left to play of the first frame. Yu Sato charged in towards the net from the left side with Hanzawa stabbing home the puck to stretch their lead of 3-0. Lithuania’s head coach Doug Boulanger reacted as Kuzminov in Lithuania’s net was replaced with the more experienced Laurynas Lubys entering the fold. “This was the hardest game for us in this tournament,” said Japan’s head coach Teruhiko Okita. “Lithuania is an offensive team with good players and there were also a lot of people coming to watch the game which many of our players are not used to,” he continued. With Lithuania now having to chase the game, they matched Japan evenly for long spells of the second period. Shots were tied 9-9 but once again it was the Japanese who capitalized. Thanks to a brilliant piece of combination of skill and quick transition, Hanzawa picked out Yu Sato, who flew down the left wing and ripped a wrister high past Lubys for his second of the evening to silence the home crowd. But this crop of Lithuanian youngsters was to show great resilience as they refused to wilt down. Heading into the third frame, they got a lifeline when Timonas Mazulis was picked out by Martynas Grinius in front of Japan’s net to pull one back for Lithuania at 48:08. The roles were reversed with 6:58 left to play of the frame. Japan’s Yuto Taneichi serving a tripping minor and Grinius scored on a rebound by Eiki Sato to send the home crowd back to their feet with "Lietuva! Lietuva!" ringing out from the stands. Japan’s head coach Okita took a time-out to cool heads and despite Lithuania frantically trying to claw themselves back into the game, any faint hopes of a comeback were crushed with 2:09 left of the game when Nakajima hit the final nail in the coffin with his 5-2 goal. “We played well during the first and second period. Then in the third they came back, but we took a time-out and once again talked about what we needed to do,” said Japan’s Hanzawa as he singled out the key-component in Japan’s recipe for success in Vilnius. “All our guys play for the team. We are not selfish, but always playing for each other as a hard working team.” Half of the current crop of players skating to gold in Lithuania will be eligible for Japan at the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I Group B. Meanwhile nine out of 22 will be available play for them during the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group A playing in Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia between 13-19 April this year as Japanese hockey aims for a place at the Olympic Winter Games in 2026 and 2030. Behind the runaway winners, Great Britain improved on last year’s third spot by finishing with the silver medals, despite the omission of Arizona Coyotes draft pick Liam Kirk. Following their two defeats against Great Britain and Japan, hosts Lithuania had to settle for bronze, while newly promoted Serbia, who could have gotten something out of four out of their five games in Vilnius, finished winless to return straight back to Division IIB. IIHF.COM

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