Jansrud claims WCup super-G title in Norway
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KJETIL Jansrud claimed the World Cup super-G title in his home race yesterday as the main challengers faltered in difficult conditions.
The Norwegian completed the Olympiabakken course in Kvitfjell, Norway, in 1 minute, 37.44 seconds, edging Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr by 0.24 seconds and Canada’s Dustin Cook by 0.33.
With one super-G remaining this season, Jansrud has an unassailable 123-point lead over Italy’s Dominik Paris, 0.48 off the pace in fourth.
Austria’s super-G world champion Hannes Reichelt, who won the downhill in Kvitfjell on Saturday, and Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer, also of Austria, both crashed out, ending their slim hopes of catching Jansrud.
Altogether 21 skiers didn’t finish as unseasonably warm sunshine caused unpredictable soft snow.
Jansrud cut the gap on overall leader Marcel Hirscher, also of Austria, to 52 points before next Saturday’s giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany‚ Lindsey Vonn of the United States won a World Cup super-G yesterday to regain the lead in the discipline with one race remaining.
Vonn is chasing her fifth super-G World Cup title and stretched her record with a 23rd race win in the event.
The American put together a winning time of 1 minute, 16.65 seconds in sunny conditions.
Overall World Cup leader Tina Maze of Slovenia was .20 seconds behind and Anna Fenninger of Austria was .36 back in third.
Vonn’s 65th career win, another record, gave her an eight-point lead over Fenninger in the super-G standings. The last race in the event is at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France, later this month.
Vonn could equal Katja Seizinger’s record of five super-G titles.
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