Last cup race before the finals: Sunday the Kranjska Gora slalom with Kristoffersen to open

At 9.30 the 1st heat, at 12.30 the second: Schwarz (bib 3) with back pain, but wants the specialty cup. Pinturault plays a lot in the defense of the primacy compared to Odermatt. Vinatzer with 12 first of the seven blues at the start.

Saturday 13 March 2021 6 minutes reading time

It will be the last World Cup race ever before the Lenzerheide finals. The Kranjska Gora slalom, tenth event of the specialty, is scheduled for Sunday starting at 9.30 on Podkoren (with 2nd heat set at 12.30, respectively for France and Norway), and will be a very important race for two reasons. The first concerns the possibility for Marco Schwarz to close with a race in advance the discourse relating to the crystal ball of a discipline in which, for continuity and quality, the 25-year-old Austrian has dominated and which sees him one step away from the finish line. but with a big problem related to back pain that already today forced the Carinthian to forfeit the giant. There are 146 points ahead of Ramon Zenhaeusern, just the last winner of the slalom in Kranjska Gora in 2019, and 184 over the new world champion Sebastian Foss-Solevaag, so a 3rd place would already guarantee Schwarz's first career cup. , regardless of the results of others. Marco will start with number 3, after the last two CdM winners of this crazy slalom season, namely Henrik Kristoffersen (bib 1) and Clément Noel (2), who scored at the end of January on the snows of Chamonix. With the number 4 here is Alexis Pinturault, now fourth in giant and now with only 31 points of margin over Odermatt in the overall: for the transalpine it will be essential a placement at least in the top 7 to gain something before Lenzerheide, but it is clear that at this point the native of Courchevel really risks very big. In the series we find Feller, the world champion Foss-Solevaag (with 6), Zenhaeusern and Meillard, Matt with 9 on the track where he won his only race in CdM, now six years ago, and after Muffat-Jeandet and Ryding , but before Strasser, Yule and Pertl (starting with the 15 after the world silver in Cortina), we will see again in the second sub-group Alex Vinatzer, who has caught the number 12 and goes in search of rebirth also in a competition of cup, after the great fourth place in the world championship event. If Manfred Moelgg (bib 17) returns to a track very dear to him, that of his first CdM victory, 13 years ago, which dragged him towards the slalom cup, they want points to access the finals Stefano Gross (currently 28th ) and Giuliano Razzoli, for whom the mission appears much harder, having to recover 39 points on 25th square. In addition, the 2010 Vancouver Olympic champion also suffers from back pain that affected him in the finishing work at the Zoncolan. Out of thirty will look for the pass for the 2nd heat Tommaso Sala (n ° 40), Riccardo Tonetti with 51 and Tobias Kastlunger, at the start with 62. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST MEN'S SLALOM - KRANJSKA GORA Startlist 1st run: 1 Kristoffersen, 2 Noel, 3 Schwarz, 4 Pinturault, 5 Feller, 6 Foss-Solevaag, 7 Zenhaeusern, 8 Meillard, 9 Matt, 10 Muffat-Jeandet, 11 Ryding, 12 Vinatzer, 13 Strasser, 14 Yule , 15 Pertl, 17 Moelgg, 28 Gross, 30 Razzoli, 40 Sala, 51 Tonetti, 62 Kastlunger.

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