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A 21-year-old Lithuanian won 23rd place out of 100 athletes in the Grand Slalom Championship in Cortina d’Ampece (Italy).
The gold was unexpectedly won by the French Mathieu Favre. The total time of its two landings is 2 minutes. 37.25 seconds A. Drukarov was 8.64 seconds behind the winner. A total of 44 downhill skiers reached the finish line on both trails.
On the first track, the Lithuanian athlete was 30th. 60 participants competed in the second landing. A. Drukarov appeared first at the starting gate, because the top 30, traditionally considered elite, start in reverse order, from 30 to first place.
Until now, Lithuanian Lithuanian Linas Vaitkus, who finished in the grand slalom in 1997 in Sestriere (Italy), held the highest position among Lithuanian mountain skiers in the world championship. He also owns the best achievement at the Olympics – 25th in the 1998 downhill race. Nagane.
“Our goal was to be in the top thirty and we did it, even though the conditions were really tough. Of course, it could have turned out even better, but I couldn’t show all my possibilities, “said A. Drukarov after the final sportas.info
Aleksandr Pustovit nuotr./Andrejus Drukarovas
For him, this is the second world championship of his career. In addition, A. Drukarov has also participated in 2018. Pyongyang Olympic Games. The former Vilnius resident, who has lived in Switzerland since he was a child, is currently ranked 96th in the world ranking of the great slalom competition. This position already allows him to compete in the World Cup, where only skiers from each of the top 150 in the world ranking can compete. The leader of the Lithuanian national team is preparing to debut in the World Cup immediately after this planetary championship.
In the Kortina d’Ampece planetary championship, among all the participants of the grand slalom competition, A. Drukarov, who was ranked 40th in the world ranking, did not have to fight in the selection competition that took place the day before, in in which 111 athletes participated.
The main race included 50 skiers from the national team, the 25 fastest and 25 representatives from those countries whose athletes have not yet qualified.
Vakaris Jokūbas Lapienis, 17, a World Championship debutant, also tried his hand at the national team. However, he was unable to cross the first track.
Once again, VJLapienis will be on the starting line on Saturday when the slalom competition selection competition takes place. A.Drukarov and Vilius Aleksandravičius, 25, will also participate in them.
On Saturday, Ieva Januškevičiūtė, 16, 26-year-old Olympian, and Gabija Šinkūnait the, the youngest member of the Lithuanian team, who will start at the world championships for the first time, will return to the track. Saturday after a two-year hiatus. They will compete in the women’s slalom main event; no selection was required in this event.
The World Championship will end on Sunday in the main men’s slalom race. It is very real that there will be at least one Lithuanian in them.
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