Triumph in the Super-G
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A huge sensation in Val Gardena/Gröden: Jan Zabystran made perfect use of the good visibility with his high starting number 29 in the super-G on Friday and made skiing history. The 27-year-old secured the first Czech men's victory in the World Cup.
Swiss superstar Marco Odermatt (+0.22 seconds) finished in second place, with Italy's Giovanni Franzoni (+0.37) completing the podium. The day after the historically weakest downhill result in Val Gardena/Gröden, Daniel Hemetsberger finished in seventh place (+0.46). With Vincent Kriechmayr (9th), Raphael Haaser (10th) and Marco Schwarz (13th), four ÖSV racers finished in the top 15 of the tight race.
Here are the final results:
Once again, the "Val Gardena/Gröden effect" of the emerging sun took hold. "Everyone who takes this chance deserves it somewhere. Congratulations to Jan, but of course it's tough," said Odermatt on ORF. "At a quarter to 12 you ride completely in the dark and half an hour later completely in the light." With a brute of a run at the limit, he had long held the lead ahead of Italian podium debutant Giovanni Franzoni (+0.37 sec.) and Frenchman Nils Allegre (+0.44).
Zabystran: "It's completely crazy"
But then came Zabystran, who had already made a big impression at the Chile training camp. He appeared in front of the microphones afterwards, completely overwhelmed: "I've never had the green light (of the leader), I've never sat in the leader's chair. It's completely crazy," beamed Zabystran. While Zabystran followed in the footsteps of his compatriot Ester Ledecka, the Val Gardena/Gröden organizers went in search of a Czech flag for the award ceremony.
"I've known Jan for a while, he's a tremendous skier, I'm not surprised at all," said Hemetsberger about the winner. The Upper Austrian was satisfied for the first time in the Olympic winter, but then had to watch as he dropped back place by place. "A Val Gardena/Gröden characteristic. The guys put in a great performance, but it didn't get any slower." He felt his way down at the limit, an inside ski mistake at the end of the Ciaslat meadow caused a brief moment of shock. He saved himself spectacularly by reaching into the snow. "What counts for me is that I'm halfway back to the music."
Ultimately, however, an Austrian podium series that lasted three super-G races came to an end. Kriechmayr cost himself another possible podium place by choosing too direct a line. "I made a mistake on the camel humps. The others didn't. That's the way it is. It was a stupid mistake that happened to me for the second time in my career at this point," said Kriechmayr. He was hoping for a learning effect before the classic Saslong downhill on Saturday (11.45 am/live in the sportkrone.at ticker).
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