Ester Ledecká turned the place in the top ten into the fifth start in the speed disciplines this season of the Ski World Cup. She finished sixth in the super-giant slalom in St. Anton.
The two-time Olympic champion did not do as well as during the December triumph in Val d’Isere. She lost 1.33 seconds to the victorious Lara Gutova-Behrami from Switzerland. We watched the race online.
Ledecká kept pace with the fastest in the beginning, but then she made a mistake and fought from the middle of the track to pass all the goals. “It was an unnecessary mistake. For some reason, she drove to the right in one gate and then tried to return to the blue line,” coach Tomáš Bank told Czech Television.
Ledecká admitted that she did not succeed in this moment. “I had a clear plan of what I was going to do there, that I would load the left ski quickly. However, when I got there, I couldn’t quite make that plan. I climbed the ski too late, I had it badly loaded and then it took me away. somewhere to hell, “she commented on a critical moment.
But in the end she managed the pitfalls of the super-giant slalom. “Since that mistake, it has been more of a struggle for a bare life than a ride. I’m glad I finished it, because such a super-G will give me more experience,” added the Czech national team member.
Eighteen competitors did not finish or were disqualified today. “The track was really hard. Maybe it was the hardest super-G I’ve ever ridden, or definitely one of the hardest. I think sixth place is great,” said the Olympic champion in giant slalom.
She finished sixth with her second best result in this discipline in the World Championships. “The positive thing is that even if she makes a very big mistake, she is sixth, which was her best position last year,” Bank said.
Gutová-Behrami, with starting number five, set the fastest time at the time. No one could overcome him. The second Marta Bassinová from Italy lost 16 hundredths, the third Swiss Corinne Suterová was two tenths slower. Twenty-nine-year-old Gutová-Behrami moved to the top of the discipline standings thanks to her victory, Ledecká dropped to second place.
The Czech amphibian will continue to race on skis. According to the coach, Banka wanted to go to Bad Gastein, where parallel snowboard slalom races are taking place on Tuesday, but her surroundings were against it.
In the end, the team decided that Ledecká would not go to Bad Gastein and will start in Crans Montana, Switzerland, where two downhill runs and one super-giant slalom should take place from 22 to 24 January.
World Cup in downhill skiing in St. Anton (Austria):
Women – Super Giant Slalom: 1. Gutová-Behramiová (Šv.) 1: 17,82, 2. Bassinová (It.) -0,16, 3. C. Suterová (Šv.) -0,20, 4. Tipplerová (Rak.) -0 , 45, 5. Brignone (It.) -0.72, 6. Ledecká (CZ) -1,33, 7. Rädlerová (Rak.) -1,37, 8. Gisinová -1,48, 9. Holdenerová (both Swiss) and Venierová (Rak.) Both -1,67.
Super-G standings (after 2 of 6 races): 1. Gutová-Behramiová 145, 2. Ledecká and C. Suterova both 140, 4. Bassin 130, 5. Brignone 105, 6. Tippler 68.
SP standings (after 13 of 33 races): 1. Vlhová (SR) 649, 2. Gisinová 530, 3. Bassinová 423, 4. Goggiaová (It.) 402, 5. Gutová-Behramiová 390, 6. Shiffrinová (USA) 385… 10. Ledecká 277, 38. Dubovská (CZE) 71.
Schwarz won the slalom for the first time
Austrian skier Marco Schwarz finished his first victory in the classic World Cup slalom in Adelboden, Switzerland. Overall, the 25-year-old native of Villach scored his third cup win in his career and leads the ongoing evaluation of the discipline.
The bronze medalist from MS Schwarz experienced his first triumph of the season after third place in the previous two slaloms. From the fourth position after the first round, he moved to the front on the difficult hill Chuenisbärgli and continued the two-year-old wins in combination and parallel slalom.
The German Linus Strasser managed to make an even bigger shift in Switzerland today. The winner of Wednesday’s slalom in Zagreb was twelfth after the first race, but in the end he took second place with a gap of 14 hundredths behind Schwarz. Brit Dave Ryding finished third by another hundredth.
“The first win in the slalom is amazing. I’ve led a few times before, but I’ve never made it. But today I said to myself: I’m riding well, my material is good and we worked hard for it in the summer. Winning the slalom was my big dream,” he said. Schwarz, who is the first Austrian winner of the World Championships slalom since January 2019, when Marcel Hirscher succeeded in Schladming.
As four days ago, the Frenchman Clément Noël could not at least turn into the podium after the first round. The second best slalom skier of the last two seasons dropped to eighth place in the second race, in Croatia he was seventh.
Alexis Pinturault, who triumphed in Adelboden on Friday and Saturday in a giant slalom, increased his lead in the overall standings today. Today, the Frenchman was seventeenth and is 129 points ahead of Norwegian Alexander Aamodt Kild, who does not ride slalom.
Even in the third race in Adelboden, Kryštof Krýzl did not make it into the elite 30 today. The 34-year-old skier set the 38th time in the first lap, and needed to be almost half a second faster to advance to the second lap.
The World Cup is expected to continue next week in Wengen, but the races at the famous Lauberhorn are in danger due to the poor coronavirus situation in the region.
World Cup in downhill skiing in Adelboden (Switzerland):
Men & # 39; s Slalom: 1. Schwarz (AUT) 1: 52.69 (53.44 + 59.25), 2. Strasser (DEU) -0.14 (54.10 + 58.73), 3. Ryding (Brit.) -0.15 (53.77 + 59.07), 4. Matt (AUT) -0.17 (54.20 + 58.66), 5. Meillard -0.19 (53.43 + 59.45 ), 6. Neph. -0.23 (53.83 + 59.09), 7. Yule (all Swiss) -0.29 (54.32 + 58.66), 8. Noël (Fr.) -0 , 38 (53.01 + 1: 00.06), 9. Foss-Solevaag (NOR) -0.41 (53.69 + 59.41), 10. Choroshilov (RUS) -0.51 (53 , 74 + 59,46)… in the 1st round 38. Kryzl (CZE) 55.56.
Running slalom standings (after 4 of 11 races): 1. Schwarz 249, 2. Strasser 233, 3. Feller (Rak.) 210, 4. Zenhäusern (Švýc.) 169, 5. Kristoffersen (Nor.) 166, 6. Foss-Solevaag 158.
SP standings (after 17 of 38 races): 1. Pinturault (Fr.) 689, 2. Kilde (Nor.) 560, 3. Odermatt (Switzerland) 501, 4. Zubčič (Chorv.) 455, 5. Kristoffersen 371, 6. Meillard 354.
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