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FALL: Mina Fürst Holtmann put in a good performance in Austria, but was unable to defend the podium from the first half. Photo: CHRISTIAN BRUNA / EPA
Mina Fürst Holtmann was in third place after the first round, but finished in fifth place when the giant slalom ski season began in Austria.
Holtmann lost all the way to Petra Vlhová and Michelle Gisin in the second half. Thus, she went down two notches on the results list and became number five after running a good race at Sölden.
– I didn’t make it flow completely. That wasn’t exactly what he was looking for. But I’m happy with a fifth place in the first race, she tells TV 2. She thinks she was too “contained” in the second round, where she made a big mistake in the hang.
– I’m very impressed with what Mina is doing today, says TV 2 expert Nina Haver-Løseth. Fifth place is Fürst Holtmann’s third best result in the World Cup.
Marta Bassino and Federica Brignone achieved the double Italian victory.
American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin did not participate in the opening race due to back problems. Henrik Kristoffersen and the rest of the world’s elite on the men’s side start the season with a giant slalom in Sölden on Sunday.
Marta Bassino had a great race and led for more than half a second halfway through. Fürst Holtmann drove hard all the way and came in third place 0.92 seconds behind Bassino. Federica Brignone was between Bassino and the Bærum girl.
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– It was fun to drive. He was a bit fussy. But I can correct that for the next round, she thought to herself.
Fürst Holtmann was fourth in last year’s opening in Sölden, while he came in a solid second just four hundredths away from victory at Courchevel in December last year. It was also a giant slalom.
STRONG ROUND 1: Mina Fürst Holtmann was strong from the start at the opening of the World Cup. Photo: CHRISTIAN BRUNA / EPA
Maria Therese Tviberg was not so successful in gray weather. She was 2.76 seconds behind Marta Bassino in 15th place, but she was too excited in the final round. She left.
There was fog at the top and difficult driving conditions at Twig in the morning.
– I did not see anything and it was very difficult to drive, says the Swedish Estelle Alphand to SVT. He had to give up after just one try.
Kaja Nordbye advanced to the second round today – 3.91 after the Italian superb, she was in 30th place and thus was the first girl in the final round.
The 21-year-old who won bronze at the World Junior Championships in giant slalom last season, rose to 23rd after a neat and decent second round.
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Norway lined up up to nine girls at the start of the season, while six of them did not make it to the second round:
Thea Louise Stjernesund (4.66 seconds behind the leader), Kristin Lysdahl (4.78), Andrine Mårstøl (5.04), Kristina Riis-Johannessen (6.74), Marte Monsen (7.08) and Tuva Nordbye (8, 44).
– I’m almost in a state of shock, Stjernesund tells TV 2. He did not in any way follow a good driving in training.
