Fenninger continues late-season run with GS win
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March 10, 2013, Sunday
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ANNA Fenninger of Austria won a World Cup giant slalom yesterday, while overall champion Tina Maze became the first woman to make eight GS podiums in one season.
Fenninger protected her lead from the first run to complete the Ofterschwanger Horn course in Germany in a total of 2 minutes, 29.39 seconds to finish 0.44 ahead of Maze, who had already clinched the overall and GS titles.
It was Maze's 21st World Cup podium of the season, putting her just one behind Austrian great Hermann Maier's record from 1999-2000. She has already broken Maier's record for points in a season, and extended her total to 2,154. "I'm very happy with the day and the course. The atmosphere was great," Maze said.
It was the second straight World Cup victory for the 23-year-old Fenninger, who won the super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen six days before. Viktoria Rebensburg was 0.96 back in third place.
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin, the slalom world champion, had a disappointing day as she skied out on her first run on the course. Organizers had cancelled a training run to protect the snow due to the springtime conditions.
With her unprecedented dominance this season, Maze has nearly twice as many points as her closest challenger, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, who is second on 1,065. The German could only manage 16th yesterday despite fervent support from the flag-waving crowd.
Maze went straight into training for today's slalom race. She is 33 points behind Shiffrin for the slalom crown and still hopeful of prolonging the title race until the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, next week, when the 29-year-old Slovenian could become the first woman to win five crystal globes in a season.
Fenninger protected her lead from the first run to complete the Ofterschwanger Horn course in Germany in a total of 2 minutes, 29.39 seconds to finish 0.44 ahead of Maze, who had already clinched the overall and GS titles.
It was Maze's 21st World Cup podium of the season, putting her just one behind Austrian great Hermann Maier's record from 1999-2000. She has already broken Maier's record for points in a season, and extended her total to 2,154. "I'm very happy with the day and the course. The atmosphere was great," Maze said.
It was the second straight World Cup victory for the 23-year-old Fenninger, who won the super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen six days before. Viktoria Rebensburg was 0.96 back in third place.
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin, the slalom world champion, had a disappointing day as she skied out on her first run on the course. Organizers had cancelled a training run to protect the snow due to the springtime conditions.
With her unprecedented dominance this season, Maze has nearly twice as many points as her closest challenger, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, who is second on 1,065. The German could only manage 16th yesterday despite fervent support from the flag-waving crowd.
Maze went straight into training for today's slalom race. She is 33 points behind Shiffrin for the slalom crown and still hopeful of prolonging the title race until the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, next week, when the 29-year-old Slovenian could become the first woman to win five crystal globes in a season.
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