Alpine Skiing - Men's European Cup
Matteo Groppo
The Swede won the 30th edition of the prestigious continental event slalom ahead of the Swiss Daniel Yule and the reborn Frenchman Julien Lizeroux. Following the release of'' Press. Here the complete result of the race! Here the rankings of the European Cup!
Wednesday 18 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
Fifth a year ago, this time the 26 year old Swede Axel Baeck has managed to win the prestigious European Cup slalom in obereggen. Baeck today was clearly the strongest, since he had led the standings after the first round and then further magnify the advantage on just'' 20 year old Swiss Daniel Yule in the second round. At the end of Baeck and Yule c'' has been quite a gap of 73 cents. Even 1.13 seconds late in the third arrived, the 34 year old Frenchman Julien Lizeroux. However, for the young Yule second place Obereggen is another good result after the victory in the European Cup slalom in Klövsjö in Sweden at the beginning of December. After the first run had led the standings Swede Axel Baeck in front of the Swiss Daniel Yule'' and the other Swedish Mattias Hargin, on Sunday in the World Cup in Val d'' Isere was placed second and that obereggen eventually finished fifth.
If Baeck had to be superstitious, this victory earned him a lot. To remember: Giuliano Razzoli won the Olympic title just a few weeks after his triumph in Obereggen in 2009. This time, instead Razzoli came out already in the first round and then do the'' bulldozer luxury in the second round. Out in the first round also the holder of the title,'' Austrian Manuel Feller. His compatriot,'' the former world champion Manfred Pranger, finished 13th.
The best of the blues today has been a darling of the house, the 24 year old Richard Tonetti Bolzano. Only 28th after the first run, took full advantage of the low number of start in the second race, clocking the fastest time of heats in absolute good and finishing ninth. The second of the blues was Cristian Deville, but with a gap of no less than 2.62 seconds from Baeck has arrived only 20th and will try to forget as soon as possible this race.
On the track this morning Oberholz were starting to none other than 113 athletes from 22 nations, among others'' s most elite slalom World Cup that gave Europe the world's oldest'' again this year - on time for the 30th anniversary - a race worthy of a World Cup: 25 of the top 50 list of the FIS are presented to the starting gate. About half (56) greeted Obereggen already in the first round. But it definitely was not the fault of the track that has held very well in spite of the high temperatures and very unusual for this period - the organizing team again this year,'' confirmed to have some magician of the track. For exempio Russian Sergei Maytakov is finished eighth with bib top 66, the Canadian Brad Spence eleventh with 44 and even mentioned Lizeroux third with 30.
Siegfried Gallmetzer, organizational leader and race director, after the end of the race was satisfied: The list of participants again this year'' has been excellent and the track has held very well, although this morning the temperature had raised some doubts.
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