Mayer is third in downhill training at Bormio



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Ryan Cochran-Siegle, who had already shown second place in Val Gardena, was fastest in the first training session for the Downhill World Cup in Bormio. Behind Val Gardena’s clearer American and Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Carinthian Matthias Mayer finished third at Stefanitag. Compared to the best time of 1: 58.63 minutes, Mayer had an increase of 61 hundredths of a second. The remaining Austrians finished far behind.

ÖSV drivers knocked out during downhill training

Daniel Hemetsberger (+2.80 seconds) was closer to the top in 18th place, the other ÖSV downhill runners who suffered a defeat in South Tyrol before Christmas only appeared on the list of results beyond 20. Hannes Reichelt was 23rd, 2.90 seconds behind, just ahead of Stefan Babinsky (+3.10). Vincent Kriechmayr (+3.13) did not beat 26th.

The Carinthian trio Otmar Striedinger (45./+4.47), Christian Walder (47./+4.71) and Max Franz (52./+5.21) also approached the Stelvio track with great respect. , one of the most difficult downhill races to master in the World Cup winter. Raphael Haaser (+4.94) was ranked 50, Christoph Krenn (+5.67) was ranked 55. Christopher Neumayer was singled out for security reasons.

Mayer promises conditions in Bormio

“Welcome to a World Cup relegation race again. He’s getting down to business,” Mayer said at the finish area. “It’s restless, it’s tough, not icy, really cool and challenging,” said the 30-year-old double Olympic champion, describing the situation. Because the runners, including the Frenchman Nils Alphand, raced, the first training session had to be interrupted several times.

This year a danger point was removed. “In recent years it has been added that I was still very restless when braking at the finish line. It is definitely the easiest thing this year. It is good to slow down,” Mayer said.

New schedule

The second training race will take place on Sunday (11.30am). The Bormio special race will take place on Tuesday, on Monday there will be the Super-G (11:30 am / ORF 1 live). It was originally planned exactly the other way around, but the race leadership decided on Saturday night to change the races based on the weather forecast.

Kilde expects a second double speed

Kilde will try to create another speed double after having succeeded in Val Gardena. A day after Super-G, the overall winner of last season’s World Cup also won relegation a week ago. The best Austrian was Franz in ninth position, just ahead of Mayer. Like the women, the men of ÖSV are still waiting for their first win of the season this season.

However, Dominik Paris has won the last five speed races in Bormio. In the first training session for this year’s Stelvio downhill race, South Tyrol took it as 32nd, more than three seconds behind.

(Those: APA)

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