Monday was slalomeksperternes day in the men’s combined competition at the alpine WORLD championship in the Swedish Åre.
the Podium was made up of skiers, who were not among the 20 best in the downhill, but among the four fastest in the slalom. Frenchman Alexis Pinturault was the fastest of all and won the olympic gold.
Kombinationskonkurrencen means, first a downhill and then a slalomløb.
Usually have the drivers either specializing in fartdisciplinerne or in the more technical disciplines, and therefore is a poor choice of location after the initial downhill is not necessarily equal to a bad finishing position.
Winning Alexis Pinturault was number 24 after styrtløbet, but with the second-best slalomtid ended up he together with the use of 1 minute and 47,71 seconds on his two runnings, which none could make faster.
Also the silver and bronze were won by runners who were significantly faster in the slalomkonkurrencen than in the downhill.
Sloveneren Stefan Hadalin took the silver, even if he was number 30 in the downhill. In the slalom he was the fastest, but overall he was is 0.24 seconds from the gold.
the Austrian Marco Schwarz got the bronze after the 21.-best time in the downhill and the fjerdebedste time in the slalom.
the Italian Dominik Paris was the fastest in the downhill, but like the other styrtløbseksperter he lost a lot of time on the last part of the slalomløbet.
He ended up putting over three seconds compared with Alexis Pinturault, and Dominik Paris ended as number nine.
the Dane Christoffer Faarup was number 37 in the downhill, but he asked never to start in the slalomkonkurrencen and eliminated therefore. In advance, he had hoped to be able to mix themselves in the top-20.
because of the wind conditions were the starting times for both styrtløbet and slalomløbet moved. In styrtløbet crashed chileneren Henrik von App and was hard to be included, which delayed the program further.
Tuesday is mixedkonkurrence at the WORLD cup, in Wednesday offers a day of rest.
