Parallel team competition
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The 48th Ski World Championships started on Tuesday in Saalbach-Hinterglemm with the parallel team competition. However, Austria was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Sweden. Gold surprisingly went to Italy in the final against Switzerland. Sweden safely took bronze.
Austria's alpine ski team failed to make a good start to the home World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. The mixed team with Julia Scheib, Stephanie Brunner, Stefan Brennsteiner and Dominik Raschner experienced a bitter afternoon on Tuesday, losing to Sweden in the quarter-finals of the parallel competition and finishing sixth. Although the duel ended 2:2, the time was against the team from the host country. Gold surprisingly went to Italy, silver to Switzerland and bronze to Sweden.
Here are the results:
Austria made too many mistakes for precious metal to be within reach. Initially in the lead, Scheib was defeated by Estelle Alphand after a mistake. Brennsteiner then prevailed against Fabian Ax Swartz and the atmosphere in the stands rose considerably for a short time - before Brunner was eliminated in the heat against Sara Hector. Raschner should then have had a dream run against Kristoffer Jakobsen, but ultimately didn't have enough time. The ÖSV has been waiting for a team medal at a World Championships since silver in Åre in 2019.
"You can't make up for that"
"If one of us makes a mistake, it's okay, but both girls like that now, that's too much. They both skied well in training yesterday, but unfortunately not today," said ÖSV Alpine Director Herbert Mandl. "We knew that you can't afford to make a mistake, you can't make up for it. But that doesn't weaken people's potential," said Mandl confidently. "It's difficult down here, very technical, it's attractive. The competition is absolutely great and also top-class in terms of sport, because it's difficult." A medal was possible, but had not been planned.
"We knew that Sweden was very, very strong. I had to go all in against Sara. I'm really sorry that I didn't make it to the finish," said Brunner. "We have to get our heads back on straight away and concentrate on the next competitions." Raschner said that they would have liked to have shown more in front of this audience. "We win as a team and we lose as a team." It was challenging and action-packed. Brennsteiner explained that mistakes happen "brutally fast" in this competition and that everyone would have liked to go down more often. "The atmosphere is tremendous." That will certainly gnaw at him a little now.
Austria and Switzerland had a bye
After the prominent forerunners Anita Wachter and Kristian Ghedina, who both won medals in Saalbach in 1991, the first of eleven World Championships competitions got underway with the round of 16, for which Austria and Switzerland had a bye. The Swiss team narrowly beat Germany in the quarter-finals (2:2), the USA defeated Norway 3:1 and Italy beat France 3:1.
In the semi-finals, Switzerland came out on top against the USA, Italy also after a 2-2 draw against Sweden. The Scandinavians got the better of the USA 3:1 in the small final, with Giorgia Collomb, Lara della Mea, Filippo della Vite and Alex Vinatzer from Italy surprisingly winning gold after a 2:2 draw against Switzerland. Wendy Holdener, Delphine Darbellay, Luca Aerni and Thomas Tumler were in action for Switzerland.
Final results of the team competition at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on Tuesday:
1. Italien (Giorgia Collomb, Filippo Della Vite, Lara Della Mea, Alex Vinatzer) – 2. Schweiz (Wendy Holdener, Luca Aerni, Delphine Darbellay, Thomas Tumler) – 3. Schweden (Estelle Alphand, Fabian Ax Swartz, Sara Hector, Kristoffer Jakobsen) – 4. USA - 5. Germany - 6. Austria (Julia Scheib, Stephanie Brunner, Katherina Truppe/not used, Stefan Brennsteiner, Dominik Raschner, Fabio Gstrein/not used) - 7. Norway - 8. France - 9. Argentina - 10. Poland
Final: Italy - Switzerland 2:2 (Italy with better run times)
For third place: Sweden - USA 3:1
Semi-finals: Switzerland - USA 2:2 (Switzerland with better run times), Italy - Sweden 2:2 (Italy with better run times)
Quarter-finals: Switzerland - Germany 2:2 (Switzerland with better run times), USA - Norway 3:1, Italy - France 3:1, Sweden - Austria 2:2 (Sweden with better run times; Alphand - Scheib/+0.50, Ax Swartz - Brennsteiner/-0.08, Hector - Brunner/Brunner eliminated, Jakobsen - Raschner/Jakobsen eliminated)
Round of 16: Switzerland walk-through, Germany - Slovenia 4:0, USA - Poland 3:1, Norway - Argentina 3:1, Italy - Ukraine 4:0, France - Great Britain 4:0, Sweden - Czech Republic 3:1, Austria walk-through
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