Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012 - Men's Super G

Adrien Theaux

Didier Cuche

Aksel Lund Svindal

Hannes Reichelt

Jan Hudec

     Neste sábado aconteceu mais uma etapa do Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup 2012 - Men's Super G em  Crans-Montana, Suiça. Benjamin Raich da Áustria ficou com o 1° lugar, Adrien Theaux da França ficou com o 2° lugar e Didier Cuche da Suiça mais uma vez visita  pódio nessa temporada com o 3° lugar.

Adrien Theaux, Benjamin Raich, Didier Cuche

Benjamin Raich

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Total Time	FIS Points
1	16	50625	RAICH Benjamin	1978	AUT	1:34.37	0.00
2	20	192746	THEAUX Adrien	1984	FRA	1:34.61	2.70
3	19	510030	CUCHE Didier	1974	SUI	1:34.73	4.04
4	10	50753	KROELL Klaus	1980	AUT	1:34.80	4.83
5	15	102271	HUDEC Jan	1981	CAN	1:34.97	6.74
6	8	51327	PUCHNER Joachim	1987	AUT	1:35.00	7.08
7	9	421483	JANSRUD Kjetil	1985	NOR	1:35.20	9.32
8	17	50742	REICHELT Hannes	1980	AUT	1:35.30	10.45
9	18	421328	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	1982	NOR	1:35.35	11.01
10	21	511383	FEUZ Beat	1987	SUI	1:35.36	11.12
11	2	53902	MAYER Matthias	1990	AUT	1:35.37	11.23
12	26	293550	MARSAGLIA Matteo	1985	ITA	1:35.40	11.57
13	11	102263	GUAY Erik	1981	CAN	1:35.45	12.13
14	1	292455	FILL Peter	1982	ITA	1:35.54	13.14
15	3	180570	ROMAR Andreas	1989	FIN	1:35.58	13.59
16	22	293006	INNERHOFER Christof	1984	ITA	1:35.67	14.60
17	5	510890	ZURBRIGGEN Silvan	1981	SUI	1:35.76	15.61
18	4	292514	HEEL Werner	1982	ITA	1:36.03	18.65
19	6	510727	DEFAGO Didier	1977	SUI	1:36.06	18.98
20	7	530939	WEIBRECHT Andrew	1986	USA	1:36.31	21.79
21	13	511313	JANKA Carlo	1986	SUI	1:36.44	23.25
22	32	534562	LIGETY Ted	1984	USA	1:36.81	27.41
23	12	50858	STREITBERGER Georg	1981	AUT	1:36.86	27.97
24	27	201606	KEPPLER Stephan	1983	GER	1:36.97	29.20
25	43	561216	KLINE Bostjan	1991	SLO	1:36.99	29.43
26	40	6530319	COCHRAN-SIEGLE Ryan	1992	USA	1:37.09	30.55
27	44	561087	MARKIC Gasper	1986	SLO	1:37.21	31.90
28	38	191746	DE TESSIERES Gauthier	1981	FRA	1:37.23	32.12
29	14	51215	BAUMANN Romed	1986	AUT	1:37.33	33.25
30	33	192504	MERMILLOD BLONDIN Thomas	1984	FRA	1:37.68	37.18
31	39	380292	ZRNCIC-DIM Natko	1986	CRO	1:37.69	37.29
32	46	200379	SANDER Andreas	1989	GER	1:37.84	38.98
33	42	990081	CASSE Mattia	1990	ITA	1:38.04	41.22
34	48	193034	BOUILLOT Alexandre	1985	FRA	1:38.11	42.01
35	45	192653	FREY Thomas	1984	FRA	1:38.18	42.80
36	68	561217	KOSI Klemen	1991	SLO	1:38.26	43.69
37	31	194364	PINTURAULT Alexis	1991	FRA	1:38.28	43.92
38	62	191740	CLAREY Johan	1981	FRA	1:38.30	44.14
38	34	51401	GRAF Bernhard	1988	AUT	1:38.30	44.14
40	64	291459	PARIS Dominik	1989	ITA	1:38.35	44.70
41	36	481705	GLEBOV Alek	1983	RUS	1:38.49	46.28
42	66	103271	THOMSEN Benjamin	1987	CAN	1:38.65	48.07
43	58	560447	SPORN Andrej	1981	SLO	1:38.90	50.88
44	67	501324	OLSSON Matts	1988	SWE	1:39.00	52.01
45	35	533131	SULLIVAN Marco	1980	USA	1:39.28	55.15
46	55	501230	ERICSSON Daniel	1987	SWE	1:39.65	59.31
47	59	400016	WANDERS Arjan	1978	NED	1:42.89	95.70
48	71	30149	SIMARI BIRKNER Cristian Javier	1980	ARG	1:43.94	107.49
Disqualified 1st run
	30	501076	OLSSON Hans	1984	SWE
	24	53817	FRANZ Max	1989	AUT
	23	191591	BERTRAND Yannick	1980	FRA
Did not start 1st run
	72	180534	SANDELL Marcus	1987	FIN
	57	201811	STECHERT Tobias	1985	GER
	28	511139	KUENG Patrick	1984	SUI
Did not finish 1st run
	70	660021	DANILOCHKIN Yuri	1991	BLR
	69	910004	DEFLORIAN Mirko	1980	MDA
	65	511529	GISIN Marc	1988	SUI
	63	930024	MAPLE Wiley	1990	USA
	61	510767	HOFFMANN Ambrosi	1977	SUI
	60	294277	KLOTZ Siegmar	1987	ITA
	56	421650	BJERKESTRAND Iver	1987	NOR
	54	202059	FERSTL Josef	1988	GER
	53	100558	COOK Dustin	1989	CAN
	52	530874	GANONG Travis	1988	USA
	51	561067	PERKO Rok	1985	SLO
	50	103090	HELIE Louis-Pierre	1986	CAN
	49	500150	JAERBYN Patrik	1969	SWE
	47	531799	FORD Tommy	1989	USA
	41	531452	BIESEMEYER Thomas	1989	USA
	37	103512	FRISCH Jeffrey	1984	CAN
	29	51005	SCHEIBER Mario	1983	AUT
	25	510747	GRUENENFELDER Tobias	1977	SUI

Benjamin Raich - AUT

Benjamin Raich

Benjamin Raich

Benjamin Raich

It’s great and I am really happy, Raiched seemed thrilled about the result. I did a lot of training for the speed disciplines, a lot of Downhill and Super G. Since 2003 I have no victory in these events, some podiums but never a victory…Now that it finally happened it just feels great!

I was really close all these years, I was often really good in the Super G so I can’t really say why it suddenly all came together for me today. It’s maybe that yesterday I saw I was in touch with the best guys out there and that’s important to know, it gave me a lot of self confidence and now I have a podium and a victory in a discipline where I was not that good this year. It makes me strong an that helps for sure.

Adrien Theaux - FRA

Adrien Theaux

Adrien Theaux

Adrien Theaux

 I’m very, very happy to share this podium with Didier and Benni- this is perfect, he said. It was very difficult today, I felt good coming down but with the amount of jumps on this slope, it’s often hard to know if you are skiing the fastest line down, so crossing the finish line and seeing I’m second was a great feeling.

 We trained here just once before, it’s a beautiful Super G but very difficult with all the jumps- it’s hard on the legs, I was so tired at the end.

Didier Cuche - SUI

Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche

It takes some good skiing, some good skis and attacking hard…but sometimes not too hard because in conditions like these it’s too soft for that, Cuche said.

After a perfect run yesterday, Cuche felt as if he didn’t ski as well as he hoped for today.

I think I skied better the top section than I did yesterday, but than I made a mistake- went too straight and had to push hard into the soft snow to get back to the line, I killed my speed to the finish line. There is a lot of terrain, lots of rolls here and you have to be tight on the line, not ski too round. I think the trick is to work with the terrain instead of working against it.

Mais/more: http://www.fis-ski.com

Fotos: Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images Europe

Audi FIS World Cup 2012 - Men's Super Giant

Aksel Lund Svindal

Christof Innerhofer

Romed Baumann

Erik Guay

        Nesta sexta ocorreu mais uma etapa do Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Men's SuperG  em Crans-Montana, Suiça. Diddier Cuche da Suiça ficou com o 1° lugar, Jan Hudec do Canadá ficou com o 2° lugar e Benjamin Raich da Áustria ficou com o 3° lugar.

Jan Hudec, Didier Cuche,  Benjamin Raich

Didier Cuche

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Total Time	FIS Points
1	20	510030	CUCHE Didier	1974	SUI	1:33.11	0.00
2	6	102271	HUDEC Jan	1981	CAN	1:33.27	1.82
3	21	50625	RAICH Benjamin	1978	AUT	1:33.32	2.39
4	7	510890	ZURBRIGGEN Silvan	1981	SUI	1:33.54	4.90
5	18	50742	REICHELT Hannes	1980	AUT	1:33.68	6.49
6	22	293006	INNERHOFER Christof	1984	ITA	1:33.71	6.83
7	4	51327	PUCHNER Joachim	1987	AUT	1:33.73	7.06
8	9	51215	BAUMANN Romed	1986	AUT	1:33.76	7.40
9	16	421328	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	1982	NOR	1:33.78	7.63
10	10	50753	KROELL Klaus	1980	AUT	1:33.81	7.97
11	2	510727	DEFAGO Didier	1977	SUI	1:33.83	8.20
12	15	50858	STREITBERGER Georg	1981	AUT	1:33.90	8.99
13	14	102263	GUAY Erik	1981	CAN	1:33.93	9.34
14	23	53817	FRANZ Max	1989	AUT	1:33.96	9.68
15	19	192746	THEAUX Adrien	1984	FRA	1:34.00	10.13
16	5	292455	FILL Peter	1982	ITA	1:34.07	10.93
17	13	421483	JANSRUD Kjetil	1985	NOR	1:34.20	12.41
18	26	191591	BERTRAND Yannick	1980	FRA	1:34.31	13.66
19	11	510747	GRUENENFELDER Tobias	1977	SUI	1:34.46	15.37
20	17	511383	FEUZ Beat	1987	SUI	1:34.47	15.48
21	30	53902	MAYER Matthias	1990	AUT	1:34.60	16.96
22	28	293550	MARSAGLIA Matteo	1985	ITA	1:34.83	19.58
23	39	103512	FRISCH Jeffrey	1984	CAN	1:34.94	20.83
24	25	530939	WEIBRECHT Andrew	1986	USA	1:35.10	22.65
25	45	990081	CASSE Mattia	1990	ITA	1:35.22	24.02
26	40	191746	DE TESSIERES Gauthier	1981	FRA	1:35.26	24.48
27	36	51401	GRAF Bernhard	1988	AUT	1:35.30	24.93
28	32	534562	LIGETY Ted	1984	USA	1:35.36	25.61
29	12	511313	JANKA Carlo	1986	SUI	1:35.38	25.84
30	43	531452	BIESEMEYER Thomas	1989	USA	1:35.41	26.18
31	66	291459	PARIS Dominik	1989	ITA	1:35.44	26.53
32	35	192504	MERMILLOD BLONDIN Thomas	1984	FRA	1:35.74	29.94
33	67	511529	GISIN Marc	1988	SUI	1:35.78	30.40
34	33	53831	HIRSCHER Marcel	1989	AUT	1:35.85	31.19
35	55	100558	COOK Dustin	1989	CAN	1:35.86	31.31
36	58	421650	BJERKESTRAND Iver	1987	NOR	1:35.89	31.65
37	34	501076	OLSSON Hans	1984	SWE	1:35.92	31.99
38	49	200379	SANDER Andreas	1989	GER	1:36.05	33.47
39	41	380292	ZRNCIC-DIM Natko	1986	CRO	1:36.14	34.49
40	24	292514	HEEL Werner	1982	ITA	1:36.24	35.63
41	70	561217	KOSI Klemen	1991	SLO	1:36.35	36.89
42	53	561067	PERKO Rok	1985	SLO	1:36.49	38.48
43	57	501230	ERICSSON Daniel	1987	SWE	1:36.66	40.41
44	44	990048	BORSOTTI Giovanni	1990	ITA	1:36.77	41.67
45	52	103090	HELIE Louis-Pierre	1986	CAN	1:36.84	42.46
46	61	560447	SPORN Andrej	1981	SLO	1:37.01	44.40
47	68	103271	THOMSEN Benjamin	1987	CAN	1:37.12	45.65
48	50	531799	FORD Tommy	1989	USA	1:37.23	46.90
49	74	180534	SANDELL Marcus	1987	FIN	1:37.50	49.98
50	71	910004	DEFLORIAN Mirko	1980	MDA	1:38.17	57.60
51	65	534959	JITLOFF Tim	1985	USA	1:38.23	58.29
52	73	30149	SIMARI BIRKNER Cristian Javier	1980	ARG	1:39.14	68.65
53	51	500150	JAERBYN Patrik	1969	SWE	1:42.05	101.78
54	42	6530319	COCHRAN-SIEGLE Ryan	1992	USA	1:43.57	119.08
Disqualified 1st run
	27	201606	KEPPLER Stephan	1983	GER
	1	511139	KUENG Patrick	1984	SUI
Did not start 1st run
	31	194364	PINTURAULT Alexis	1991	FRA
Did not finish 1st run
	72	660021	DANILOCHKIN Yuri	1991	BLR
	69	501324	OLSSON Matts	1988	SWE
	64	930024	MAPLE Wiley	1990	USA
	63	191740	CLAREY Johan	1981	FRA
	62	400016	WANDERS Arjan	1978	NED
	60	201811	STECHERT Tobias	1985	GER
	59	191778	PICHOT Sebastien	1981	FRA
	56	202059	FERSTL Josef	1988	GER
	54	530874	GANONG Travis	1988	USA
	48	192653	FREY Thomas	1984	FRA
	47	561087	MARKIC Gasper	1986	SLO
	46	561216	KLINE Bostjan	1991	SLO
	38	481705	GLEBOV Alek	1983	RUS
	37	533131	SULLIVAN Marco	1980	USA
	29	51005	SCHEIBER Mario	1983	AUT
	8	511352	VILETTA Sandro	1986	SUI
	3	180570	ROMAR Andreas	1989	FIN

Didier Cuche - SUI

Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche

I knew today was going to be a challenge and it didn’t feel as if I was skiing so good on the top section, so I was really surprised to see I had the fastest time when I crossed the finish line.

I think I was able to find the fastest and cleanest line in the lower section, somehow it just started feeling right and I’m so happy that brought me the victory.

About  retire:

I don’t really think there is anything that could make me change my mind, I feel good about the decision I made and even though the results I have had since the announcement have been grate, I do find it hard to find the motivation for all the aspects of this sport. I am not sure if the latest results are coming because of the retirement, but it’s sure great to know I will be retiring on a high note.

Jan Hudec - CAN

Jan Hudec

Jan Hudec

Jan Hudec

For me being relaxed has always been the most important thing, Hudec said. I have been skiing long enough to know how to do it, it’s not something you forget. For me to be able to stay fresh mentally is to be relaxed, surround myself with friends and family and just enjoy myself- than I get on the start and I want to perform and I want to be fast.

The last couple of days I was struggling a little bit in training, Erik [Guay] and the other guys were skiing really good and I was trying to catch up with them. Than as soon as I got number six at the draw I knew it was my chance to attack and that I would have to take advantage of that start position. The conditions are really soft, I tried to charge but skied a little too conservative at the bottom and I knew that if someone was going to beat me, it would be in the last pitch, and that’s exactly what Cuche did- he really deserved the win with that high number.

 I’m usually good in this kind of snow, I have a good feeling and I can ski very light on my edges. I like it better than if the snow was pretty hard, I think that if that would have been the case this would have been a really challenging SG with big jumps. The snow suited me and I took advantage of it- now I just hope not to move too far back with my start number in tomorrow’s race.

Benjamin Raich - AUT

Benjamin Raich

Benjamin Raich

I am finding my form now, even though I felt as if my shape was good all the time but my results were just not showing it. Today I finally have a result that I am happy with, and this third place just makes me look forward to the next races.

I found some good feeling in these soft conditions, it was not easy, Raich said. Sometimes I was pushing too hard but overall I had a good feeling and am really happy with my third place.

 With Cuche first with bib 20 and me in third starting 21, it’s hard to say what was better today. Normally in these conditions it’s much better to go with an earlier number but today it looks as if it was possible to be fast also starting later so I can’t really say.

Mais/more: http://www.fisalpine.com

Fotos:  Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images Europe
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