Erik Fisher surprising other North American and Austrians in two runs FIS Copper Mountain

Two men's FIS downhill on the same day at Copper Mountain, Colorado, where the Austrians are training together in the U.S. and Canada, and two wins of the same athlete, Erik Fisher.

Saturday 9 November 2013 2 minutes reading time

The American, who had just returned from a knee injury in the first clocked a time of 1'36 "92 and preceded by one-tenth of the Austrian Matthias Mayer and 23 cents an Austrian Georg Streitberger and the American Marco Sullivan, third ex-aequo. Fifth and sixth Austrians Max and Klaus Franz Kroll, even the latter returning after injury of the super-G in Lenzerheide, seventh and eighth Americans Bode Miller and Travis Ganong, ninth and tenth Canadians Manuel Osborne-Paradis and Morgan Pridy. In the second Fisher with a time of 1'37 "10 of 21 cents beat compatriot Steven Nyman, eighteenth in the first run, the third at 45 cents still Streitberger, this time solo, Mayer fourth, fifth Austrian Otmar Striedinger. Franz sixth, ninth and tenth Sullivan Osborne-Paradis. Intruder in these lists filled with big World Cup Austrian and North American Croatian Natko Zrncic-Dim, the thirteenth in the first race and eighth in the second. In the second drop-down Kroll arrived fifteenth and nineteenth Miller. There were two other members of the Wunderteam name: Romed Baumann, twenty-sixth and seventeenth, and Joachim Puchner, another injured excellent returns, twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Tomorrow I'm scheduled two supercombinate, both as a super-G race of speed.

Max Valle

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