[ad_1]
Defender Marco Caviezel won the first men’s sprint of the season on Saturday. In the women’s category, Stephanie Brunner is currently in fifth place as the best Austrian at the RTL break.
Defender Marco Caviezel won the first men’s sprint of the season on Saturday. In difficult slope and visibility conditions, the Swiss prevailed in the shortened Super-G of Val d’Isère ahead of Norwegian Adrian Smiseth Sejersted (+0.10 seconds) and Carinthian Christian Walder (+0.54), for the first time he took the podium in his career. For Caviezel it was the first World Cup victory, only in June had the Achilles tendon torn.
Vincent Kriechmayr was fifth, Matthias Mayer was eleventh after 37 runners. Alexis Pinturault took the sole lead of the World Cup on the seventh day ahead of Swiss Marco Odermatt (13th). Ahead, nothing should change in qualifying because it started to snow more and more.
A relegation is on the Sunday program. The races were exchanged due to the weather forecast.
Vlhova at RTL break in Courchevel
World cup leader Petra Vlhova leads the way in Courchevel after the first ever alpine skiing women’s giant slalom race. With number one at 1: 08.82 minutes, the Slovakian developed a 0.49-second lead over Italian winner Sölden Marta Bassino. Behind American Mikaela Shiffrin (+0.65) and Swedish Sara Hector (+0.74), Stephanie Brunner was fifth as the best Austrian despite worse conditions than the absolute elite (+0.98).
With light snowfall and moderate ground visibility, other members of the ÖSV team also achieved, at least for the moment, a significant improvement compared to Sölden’s performance. Katharina Liensberger qualified after 30 of 69 registered runners behind New Zealander Alice Robinson (+1.30) in seventh (+1.35), Katharina Truppe in tenth (+1.80) and Ricarda Haaser in twelfth (+2.08)). In Sölden Truppe was the 15th best in the ÖSV. The second performance is scheduled for 12.30 pm (ORF 1 live).
(WHAT)
