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The first men's race of Aspen Finals will be the descent, the last act of the match between Kjetil Jansrud and Peter Fill for the conquest of the specialty cup.
Tuesday 14 March 2017 8 minutes reading time
Aspen is a town located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It is one of the most important as far as alpine skiing, so as to have hosted several races of the World Cup since 1968, and the edition of the World Cup of 1950, in which Zeno Colo was protagonist with gold medals in Downhill and Giant and silver in Slalom.
ASPEN PREVIOUS
Until now you have played 18 World Cup Downhill in Aspen. undisputed star Peter Müller, unique not only to repeat but to win as many as 4 times (twice in 1982, 1985 and 1986). On the podium four times as he also Helmut Hoflehner, but never on the top step (1 second and 3 third places).
For Italy 2 podiums in the World Cup in Aspen Downhill: Michael Mair was the second March 6, 1983, while Peter Vitalini finished third in the last edition held March 5, 1994 and won by Cary Mullen, his only success in career . Finally it should be remembered the already mentioned Olympic gold won by Zeno Colo in the World Cup of 1950.
BOWL OF SPECIALTIES 'DESCENT
The Aspen Downhill also sanction those among Kjetil Jansrud and Peter Fill will win the cup for 2016-17 specialties. The two are the last two winners of this trophy, so who will prevail will boast the second small crystal ball in his career.
Currently Jansrud guide with 407 points against the 374 of Fill. No one else can enter the duel as the third, Dominik Paris, it is trailing by 136 points Jansrud. Recalling that in the Finals only take the first 15 points, these are all possible combinations that would allocate cup blue.
Jansrud
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FILL
3rd or worse
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1st
5th or worse
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2
9th or worse
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3rd
14th or worse
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4th
Withdrawn or outside the top 15
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5 ° -6 ° -7 °
Coming out of the first 7 or ending up behind Jansrud, the trophy would go to the Norwegian regardless of its outcome.
I QUALIFIED TO THE DESCENT OF ASPEN
As known, the Finals can participate in only the first 25 of the ranking of specialties of the current season, the Junior World Champion and all those who have gained more than 500 points in the overall standings of the World Cup. Therefore, this is a list of ALL the qualified, regardless of their status (injured or non-accustomed to this specialty logically not participate).
N
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ATHLETE
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NAT
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CRITERION
1
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Kjetil Jansrud
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NOR
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TOP25 DH
2
|
FILL Peter
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ITA
|
TOP25 DH
3
|
PARIS Dominik
|
ITA
|
TOP25 DH
4
|
REICHELT Hannes
|
AUT
|
TOP25 DH
5
|
FEUZ Beat
|
SUI
|
TOP25 DH
6
|
KLINE Bostjan
|
SLO
|
TOP25 DH
7
|
GUAY Erik
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CAN
|
TOP25 DH
8
|
Travis Ganong
|
USA
|
TOP25 DH
9
|
MAYER Matthias
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AUT
|
TOP25 DH
10
|
Adrien Theaux
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BETWEEN
|
TOP25 DH
11
|
Carlo Janka
|
SUI
|
TOP25 DH
12
|
OSBORNE-PARADIS Manuel
|
CAN
|
TOP25 DH
13
|
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
|
NOR
|
TOP25 DH
14
|
Aksel Lund Svindal
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NOR
|
TOP25 DH
15
|
FRANZ Max
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AUT
|
TOP25 DH
16
|
KRIECHMAYR Vincent
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AUT
|
TOP25 DH
17
|
BAUMANN Romed
|
AUT
|
TOP25 DH
18
|
GIRAUD MOINE Valentin
|
BETWEEN
|
TOP25 DH
19
|
Johan Clarey
|
BETWEEN
|
TOP25 DH
20
|
Steven NYMAN
|
USA
|
TOP25 DH
21
|
Patrick Kueng
|
SUI
|
TOP25 DH
22
|
Andreas SANDER
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GER
|
TOP25 DH
23
|
FAYED Guillermo
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BETWEEN
|
TOP25 DH
24
|
CAVIEZEL Mauro
|
SUI
|
TOP25 DH
25
|
Dressen Thomas
|
GER
|
TOP25 DH
26
|
HIRSCHER Marcel
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AUT
|
> PT 500 WC
27
|
Henrik Kristoffersen
|
NOR
|
> PT 500 WC
28
|
Alexis Pinturault
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BETWEEN
|
> PT 500 WC
29
|
Felix Neureuther
|
GER
|
> PT 500 WC
30
|
MOELGG Manfred
|
ITA
|
> PT 500 WC
31
|
|
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JWCH
The Aspen Downhill, last race of the 2016-17 World Cup in this event, will be held Wednesday, March 15. The departure is scheduled for 16:30 Italian, local 9:30.
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