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Raich captures World Cup super combined in France
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December 12, 2009, Saturday
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BENJAMIN Raich won a World Cup super combined race yesterday, leading an Austrian 1-2 ahead of Marcel Hirscher, according to provisional results.
The former overall World Cup champion posted the 35th win of his career with a total time of 2 minutes, 7.71 seconds for the super-G and slalom runs, 0.89 seconds better than Hirscher in Val D'Isere in France.
Raich, who claimed his first victory of the winter following a second-place finish in the giant slalom in Beaver Creek, Colorado, last week, had the best slalom run on the treacherous Face de Bellevarde, with a time of 49.94 seconds.
Raich was fourth after the super-G portion of the event, while Hirscher climbed up from third.
Manfred Moelgg of Italy and Romed Baumann of Austria shared third place, 1.55 seconds behind. Bode Miller was fifth, with a combined time of 2:09.40, and American teammate Ted Ligety skidded of course.
"It was tough today," said Miller, a two-time over World Cup champion.
"I didn't feel very good, but it was important that I get some points because I hadn't scored a lot last year," the American added.
Ligety, who won the Olympic combined gold medal in Turin, was leading by more than a second when he went out.
World Cup leader Carlo Janka, who was second after the super-G, struggled from the beginning with a big mistake on the upper part of the course and fell midway through the race.
The 23-year-old Swiss skier, who won a super combined, downhill and giant slalom in Beaver Creek, missed out on a chance to become the first skier to claim four straight World Cup wins since Hermann Maier in 1998.
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