Mayer Claims Super G Gold

SPORTS Saturday, February 17, 2018 21 Dario Cologna (C), Simen Hegstad Krueger (L) and Denis Spitsov pose (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) Mayer claims super G gold Matthias Mayer reacts (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) Pyeongchang fifth meaning he missed out ustria’s Matthias Mayer on a historic ‘speed double’, produced a brilliant run a day after winning the toA win the men’s super G downhill. and claim his second Winter Mayer’s father is former Olympics alpine skiing gold alpine ski racer Helmut Mayer, medal. who won Olympic silver in Mayer, the downhill this event in Caglary 1988 champion in Sochi in 2014, Mayer’s win breaks Norway’s won in a time of one minute dominance in men’s Olympic 24.44 seconds, with Beat Feuz super G, which stretches back Dario Cologna of Switzerland second and to 2002. defending champion Kjetil Hermann Maier of Austria Jansrud of Norway third. was the last man from outside Norway’s Aksel Lund Norway to win the event, at Svindal could only manage Nagano in 1998. (BBC) PyeongchangmakesSpitsov, an Olympic Athlete history expected to compete in the and that he would be in “the ritain’s Andrew Musgrave from Russia, bronze. team sprint on Wednesday. fight for victory”. Yun grabs second finished 28th as Scot Musgrave, 27, was Musgrave won his maiden However, a steady start BSwitzerland’s Dario Cologna an outside chance to win World Cup medal with bronze meant he was only 45th out of made Winter Olympic history Britain’s first Olympic cross in December, and finished 119 competitors at the 1.5km gold for S. Korea by winning the men’s 15km country medal. seventh in the skiathlon - the checkpoint. Pyeongchang Athlete from Russia, and cross country skiing. He finished in 35 minutes best performance by a British He moved into the top 20 outh Korea’s Yun Sung- Great Britain’s Dom Parsons Cologna, 31, became the 51 seconds, 2:07 behind cross country skier - on around halfway, but slipped bin claimed the home who won bronze. first cross-country skier to Cologna. Sunday. back in the later stages. nation’sS second gold medal of He becomes the first win the same individual event Britons Andrew Young and Musgrave said his “I went out at an even pace, the Pyeongchang Games with athlete from outside Europe three times in a row. Callum Smith finished 57th performance in the skiathlon but it was shocking and I felt victory in the men’s skeleton. and North America to win an Norway’s Simen Hegstad and 75th respectively. would give him confidence a bit heavy all the way round,” Yun, 23, won by a massive Olympic sliding medal. Krueger won silver and Denis Musgrave and Young are for his preferred 15km event, said Musgrave. (BBC) 1.63 seconds ahead of Nikita Yun was fastest in all four Tregubov, an Olympic runs and set a track record on his final run. “Getting the gold medal in Huskova clinches any Olympics is a very great result but getting the gold here in my home country is a very great honour, much aerials gold bigger than that,” Yun said. “I was a little worried about Pyeongchang Huskova scored 96.14, while racing on the morning of the anna Huskova won Belarus’ China’s Zhang Xin took silver with lunar new year,” he added. first medal of the 2018 Winter 95.52 and compatriot Kong Fanyu Yun Sungbin (BBC) OlympicsH with victory in the bronze with 70.14. women’s aerials. Defending champion Alla Tsuper The 25-year-old was one of only of Belarus fell as she landed in the two of the six finalists to land their final round. jumps cleanly in Pyeongchang. (BBC) Hanna Huskova reacts (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) Moioli wins thrilling snowboard cross Dom Parsons MEDAL TABLE Pyeongchang Bronze for GB’s Parsons talian Michela Moioli won a thrilling final to Country Gold Silver Bronze Total take gold in the women’s snowboard cross in PyeongChang ahead of Latvia’s Martins Pyeongchang.I om Parsons has secured Dukurs. South Korea’s Yun 1. Germany 9 2 4 15 All six finalists were in contention for much DBritain’s first medal of the Sungbin won the gold medal 2. Norway 6 8 5 19 of the race but Moioli pulled clear late on to win. 2018 Winter Olympics after ahead of Nikita Tregubov, an Two athletes crashed on the finish line but claiming bronze in a dramatic Olympic athlete from Russia. 3. Netherlands 6 5 2 13 French 16-year-old Julia Pereira de Sousa finish to the men’s skeleton. Parsons is the first British 4. United States 5 1 2 8 Mabileau won silver and Czech Eva Samkova After recording a combined man to win an Olympic bronze. American Lindsey Jacobellis who crashed time of three minutes 22.20 skeleton medal since John 5. Canada 4 5 4 13 on the finish line to miss out on 2006 Olympic seconds, the 30-year-old Crammond in 1948. (theweek. gold only managed fourth. finished just 0.11 seconds co.uk) Michela Moioli.

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