Alpine SkiingSt. Moritz 2017
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The sixth race of the World Championships in St. Moritz will be the men's Alpine Combined.
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COMBINED ALPINE MEN IN SEASON IN PROGRESS
In the current season you have already played 2 Combine Alpine provided. In Santa Caterina victory Alexis Pinturault front of Marcel Hirscher and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde; Wengen instead, in a race blatantly distorted by the weather, the success of Niels Hintermann of Maxence Muzaton and Frederic Berthold.
Having the season of this specialty which had been closed, the cup went to Pinturault with 111 points, according to Hintermann with 100 and third Kilde with 92. The best Italian is Paolo Pangrazzi who finished with 20 points the result of the thirteenth place in Wengen.
COMBINED ALPINE MEN IN ST. MORITZ
St. Moritz is a town in the canton of Grisons, famous, luxury travel destination for both winter and summer, as well as the historic town as far as downhill skiing. In fact, it has already hosted three editions of the World Championships (1934, 1974 and 2003), one of the Olympic Games (1948) and the various stages of the World Cup; particularly since 1999 is pretty much regular event for the women's circuit.
In all four editions of male Combined St.Moritz, namely the four trials that assigned as many world titles in the history of the sport. The considerable distance in terms of years between one race and the other made it impossible for anyone to conquer more than a medal, so we only report the list of podiums of these four tests.
COMBINED ALPINE WORLD CUP MEN
The Combined entered the global agenda since the second edition of Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1932. Since then, uniting all races regardless of the regulatory changes of which has been the subject over the years, 40 editions were held, with two men able to win as many as 3 titles, Marc Girardelli (Crans Montana in 1987, Vail 1989, and the Sierra Nevada in 1996) and Kjetil Andre Aamodt (Sestriere 1997 Beaver Creek in 1999 and St. Anton 2001).
Aamodt is the leader on the Combined individual medal, matching the 3 gold 1 silver (Morioka 1993) and one bronze (St. Moritz 2003), while also boast Girardelli 4 medals (bronze in Morioka 1993) and Lasse Kjus (1 gold Morioka 1993 and three silvers in Sierra Nevada 1996, 1999 Beaver Creek and St. Moritz 2003).
Italy has won a total of 6 medals at the World Cup in Combined. The only one to take home the gold was Gustav Thöni, riuscitoci on 2 occasions (Sapporo 1972 and Innsbruck 1976: in both cases the Combined was only of global significance although present in the Olympic program). A silver for Kristian Ghedina (Saalbach 1991) and Christof Innerhofer (Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011), the only occasion that saw two blue together on the podium as Peter Fill was bronze. Bronze ultimately also for Giorgio Rocca to Bormio 2005.
The world champion's Marcel Hirscher, who in Beaver Creek in 2015 was imposed ahead of Kjetil Jansrud and Ted Ligety.
This is the complete list of winners of the men's Alpine Combined at the World Cup in Alpine skiing.
The men's Alpine Combined, the sixth race of the World Championships in St. Moritz, will be held Monday, February 13; The heats of Descent will depart at 10:00 am, the Slalom at 13:00.
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HIRSCHER Marcel
CAVIEZEL Mauro
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Romed Baumann in the lead after the descent of the world combined in St. Moritz
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