Ruiz Castillo puts Spain back on ski map
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February 24, 2013, Sunday
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CAROLINA Ruiz Castillo put Spain back on the Alpine skiing map when she won the women's World Cup downhill in Meribel, France, yesterday to bridge a seven-year gap since the country's last victory.
At 31, the Chilean-born Spaniard who trains in France outpaced the leading favorites to clinch her first World Cup victory, 13 years after her only previous podium in Sestriere.
Ruiz Castillo's success in one minute 42.56 seconds was Spain's first since Maria Jose Rienda Contreras triumphed in a giant slalom in Hafjell in 2006.
Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, the super-combined world champion in Schladming, was second, 0.20 seconds adrift for her third downhill podium of the winter following Lake Louise and her bronze medal at the worlds earlier this month.
Local favorite Marie Marchand-Arvier missed the runner-up spot by the slimmest of margins, finishing 0.01 behind Hoefl-Riesch.
World Cup leader Tina Maze of Slovenia missed the podium by 0.07 seconds but added 50 points to her overall World Cup tally, moving to 1,744 points.
France's world champion Marion Rolland finished 10th.
Maze and Hoefl-Riesch will be clear favorites in today's super-combined on the same Roc de Fer piste.
At 31, the Chilean-born Spaniard who trains in France outpaced the leading favorites to clinch her first World Cup victory, 13 years after her only previous podium in Sestriere.
Ruiz Castillo's success in one minute 42.56 seconds was Spain's first since Maria Jose Rienda Contreras triumphed in a giant slalom in Hafjell in 2006.
Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, the super-combined world champion in Schladming, was second, 0.20 seconds adrift for her third downhill podium of the winter following Lake Louise and her bronze medal at the worlds earlier this month.
Local favorite Marie Marchand-Arvier missed the runner-up spot by the slimmest of margins, finishing 0.01 behind Hoefl-Riesch.
World Cup leader Tina Maze of Slovenia missed the podium by 0.07 seconds but added 50 points to her overall World Cup tally, moving to 1,744 points.
France's world champion Marion Rolland finished 10th.
Maze and Hoefl-Riesch will be clear favorites in today's super-combined on the same Roc de Fer piste.
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