men's giant St. Moritz 2017 History and Statistics

The ninth race of the World Championships in St. Moritz will be the men's Giant Slalom.

Thursday 16 February 2017 8 minutes reading time

GIANT MEN IN SEASON IN PROGRESS In the current season they were played 6 male Giants and the protagonists were Alexis Pinturault, winner in Soelden in the second of Val d'Isere and Adelboden in the first and third of Val d'Isere, and Marcel Hirscher, first in Alta Badia and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and always second in the other four occasions. Only "intruder" Mathieu Faivre, who won the first of Val d'Isere and also came second in Alta Badia They got even podiums Felix Neureuther (third in SÃ¶lden), Henrik Kristoffersen (third in the second of Val d'Isere), Philip SchÃ¶rghofer (third in Adelboden), Matts Olsson (second in Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Stefan Luitz (third in Garmisch- Partenkirchen) and Florian Eisath, unique blue to be on the podium in this discipline with third place in Alta Badia. In the specialty ranking commands Hirscher with 533 points against the 439 and the 360 â€‹â€‹Pinturault of Faivre. The best Italian is Eisath, eighth with 171 points, in the fifteen Luca De Aliprandini eleventh. In summary, these are the podiums of 6 Giants played the World Cup season. GIANT 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 but especially women. In all, five editions of the male Giant St. Moritz, 2 and 3 of the World Cup valid for the World Cup respectively in 1974 and 2003. No man has been able to win more than one occasion, and the only one able to go up to 2 times on the podium it is Alexis Pinturault third February 2, 2014 and March 19, 2016 in the second race of the end of last season that saw a French hat-trick with Thomas Fanara first and third Mathieu Faivre. Two podiums for Italy in the Giant St. Moritz, both arrived at the World Championship round of the February 5, 1974: Gustav ThÃ¶ni Piero Gros won the gold and bronze. For the record, the silver went to Hans Hinterseer. This is the list of podiums of all top-level male Giants played in St. Moritz. GIANT MEN'S WORLD CUP The Giant Slalom has entered the global agenda in the Second World War. The first edition was in fact took place in Aspen in 1950; since then they have carried out 33 with Ted Ligety to lead the individual medals: the defending champion is in fact just back from four consecutive podium finishes, including 3 golds (Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011, Schladming 2013 and 2015 Beaver Creek, only man to have won three world titles in this specialty) and one bronze (Val d'Isere 2009). Recalling that until 1980 the Olympics had value even World, they got 2 gold Stein Eriksen (Oslo 1952 and Ã…re 1954), Toni Sailer (Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Bad Gastein 1958), Gustav ThÃ¶ni (Sapporo 1972 St.Moritz 1974), Ingemar Stenmark (Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 and Lake Placid 1980), Rudolf Nierlich (Vail 1989 Saalbach 1991) and Michael Von GrÃ¼nigen (Sestriere 1997 and St.Anton 2001) and boast like Ligety 4 medals Ingemar Stenmark ( 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze) and Karl Schranz (1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze). Italy won 7 total medals in the World Cup giant. In addition to the two golds ThÃ¶ni, arrived another two titles with Zeno Colo in Aspen in 1950 and Alberto Tomba in Sierra Nevada 1996; complete the loot the 3 bronze won by Piero Gros respectively St.Moritz 1974 Alberto Tomba in Crans Montana 1987, and Manfred MÃ¶lgg Schadming in 2013. The world champion is Ted Ligety, who in Beaver Creek in 2015 was imposed ahead of Marcel Hirscher and Alexis Pinturault. This is the complete list of winners of the male Giant in the World Cup in Alpine skiing. The Giant Slalom, ninth race of the World Championships in St. Moritz, will be held Friday, Feb. 17; The first race will start at 09:45, the second at 13:00.

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