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Marcel Hirscher (AUT) collects men's slalom gold
Press Room Formigal 2008
13:30 - 02/27/2008
The men’s slalom on Wednesday was the fourth competition at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Formigal (SPA). Marcel Hirscher (AUT), the main favorite for the title, took a clear victory, winning by 0.93 seconds over Jacopo Di Ronco (IT)
The men’s slalom on Wednesday was the fourth competition at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Formigal (SPA). Marcel Hirscher (AUT), the main favorite for the title, took a clear victory, winning by 0.93 seconds over Jacopo Di Ronco of Italy. Tomoya Ishii of Japan and Kristian Haug of Norway tied for the bronze medal, 1.15 behind Hirscher. Andrew Phillips of the USA finished 5th, while Jonathan Nordbotten of Norway took 6th.
Contrary to the weather forecast which predicted rain, both runs were held in sunny and mild conditions with some wind in the beautiful ski area of Aramón Formigal.
Soon 19-year-old Marcel Hirscher established a solid lead in the first run, leading by 0.50 seconds over the 2nd ranked Jonathan Nordbotten (NOR). Di Ronco was 3rd at the half-way point, 0.86 behind Hirscher. In the second run, Hirscher was 8th fastest, 0.43 seconds slower than Matic Skube (SLO) who won the 2nd run and finished 17th in the final results.
Marcel Hirscher, a Salzburg native, already won gold in the giant slalom in the 2007 Junior Worlds in Altenmarkt/Zauchensee, along with a silver in the slalom. Hirscher is also the current leader of the European Cup overall standings, and ranked 2nd in the EC slalom standings and 7th in the EC giant slalom standings. Earlier this season, he recorded a 9th place finish as his so-far best result in the World Cup (Adelboden, January 2008).
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Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia takes ladies’ downhill gold
Press Room Formigal 2008
17:00 - 02/26/2008
On the second competition day in the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships 2008 in Formigal (SPA), Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia claimed the gold medal in the ladies’ downhill. Lara Gut of Switzerland captured the silver while the super-G gold medalist Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany added a bronze to her medals collection. Anna Fenninger of Austria finished 4th whilst Edith Miklos of Rumania took 5th. Isabelle Stiepel of Germany added to the great German team result by finishing 6th.
Rescheduled from Wednesday to Tuesday due to unfavorable weather forecast the ladies’ race was held in beautiful sunny but warm conditions on Tuesday. The downhill gold was the third Junior World Championship gold medal for 17-year-old Stuhec, a Maribor native, after she won the slalom and the combined in the 2007 Junior Worlds in Altenmarkt/Zauchensee (AUT) last season.
16-year-old Lara Gut of Switzerland still led at the second intermediate timing point but lost 0.60 second to Stuchec in the end. For the Swiss talent, the current leader in the ladies’ European Cup overall standings as well as the downhill and super-G event standings, it was the 2nd silver medal in the Junior Worlds after she also claimed silver in the downhill in 2007. On Saturday, she finished 4th in the super-G. Earlier in the season, Gut had surprised by claiming her career-first FIS World Cup podium place in St. Moritz (SUI).
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Men’s downhill gold for Hagen Patscheider of Italy
Press Room Formigal 2008
17:00 - 02/26/2008
The men’s downhill on Tuesday was the third competition at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Formigal (SPA).
The men’s downhill on Tuesday was the third competition at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Formigal (SPA). In a very tight race, the gold went for 20-year-old Hagen Patscheider of Italy who was just one hundredth of a second faster than the silver medalist Eian Sandvik of Norway. 17-year-old Jonas Fravi of Switzerland claimed the bronze medal, 0.28 behind Patscheider.
Tying for fourth were Matts Olsson of Sweden and Travis Ganong (USA), just 0.41 behind winner while the 6th place finisher Paolo Pangrazzi (ITA) was only another 3 hundredths behind them.
Today’s gold is Patscheider’s best result in the Junior Worlds so far. Last year in Flachau (AUT), he finished 8th in giant slalom. In the European Cup he finished 8th twice in a super-G within the last month, his best EC results. 19-year-old Sandvik finished 12th in the Junior Worlds downhill last season, his previously best result. For Fravi, who competed in his very first Junior World Championship race and made the podium with bib#20, the bronze medal was an early birthday present, coming just ten days before his 18th birthday.
Comments:
Hagen Patscheider (ITA, gold medalist): “Winning by just one hundredth of a second is luck so I guess it was my lucky day today. I am normally actually better in the technical disciplines rather than in the downhill. Today’s course may look a bit flat but it has some really techn (...)
A fire, light and sound show welcomes the skiers to Formigal 2008
Press Room Formigal 2008
20:00 - 02/24/2008
The President of the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports, Eduardo Roldan, highlighted the perfect organisation of the Championship. Winter Olympic sportsmen from Aragon raised the Community flag.
The official opening ceremony of the Alpine Junior World Championship Formigal 2008, that took place last Sunday night, was chaired by the President of the Government of Aragon, Marcelino Iglesias. The event was held in the local Sports Hall of Sallent de Gallego and consisted of a great light and sound show.
During the ceremony, the several participating teams marched along the Sports centre track under the watchful eye of the spectators that packed the stands. Afterwards two theatre shows livened up the ceremony. The first one presented the Legend of Formigal through a performance while the second one consisted of an allegory of the fire celebration. .
The Winter Olympic sportsmen from Aragon were present during all the event; figures like Jorge Pérez Villanueva; Luciano del Cacho; Andrea Casasnovas; Ana Galindo; Leyre Morlans; and Emiliano Morlans were in charge of carrying the Aragonese flag. For their part, a representation of the Mountain Hunters regiment “Galicia numero 64” and members of the Technification Centre of Aragón were the ones in charge of raising the Spanish flag and the Internacional Ski Federation(FIS)flag .
The ceremony took place in the presence of numerous political and sport figures from the Community of Aragon, among whom we can highlight the presence of the Counsellor of Education, Culture and Sport Eva Almunia; the President of the region of Alto Gállego, Mariano Fa&nt (...)
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