In contrast to the qualification, the elimination races took place on a shorter track, on which the team race was also decided. In it, Schmid helped the German team win bronze and, in the second parallel power test in Méribel, improved the fourth place from Cortina d’Ampezzo 2021. Austrian Dominic Raschner half a second, which is the maximum possible spacing. He was also better in the second run and increased his lead to nine tenths.
The women’s final, on the other hand, was much more balanced, Tvibergová and swiss star wendy The Holdeners had the same time in the first run. In the second, the 28-year-old Norwegian used a slightly faster blue track and left her rival behind by 67 hundredths. For Holdener, the silver means the sixth world medal, in Méribel she followed up the second place in the combination.
For Tvibergová, the gold is the biggest individual success in her career. She has not yet made it to the “box” at major events or in the World Cup.
Bronze was won by other Norwegian representatives Timon Haugan and Thea Louise Stjernesund – as well as Tviberg, members of the team that lost in the final of the team competition. Haugan had a difficult time in it, when he messed up the start in the decisive run and eased the way for the Americans to the title. This time he had a taste and defeated the Austrian Adrian Pertl in the duel for bronze.
Already in the round of 16, one of the two world champions from 2021, Italian Marta Bassinová, was eliminated. The defending champion was surprisingly not enough for the 21-year-old Frenchwoman Marie Lamure, who advanced to the semi-finals on her debut at the World Championships. In the fight for bronze, the talented competitor paid the price when her skis turned off in the second run.
