The second Saalbacher Sonnen World Championship almost got its first scratch. The men’s Super-G race headed to the end, one of the last starters raced down the twelve-king slopes-and then it happened: Luis Vogt tore the line before the target leap, so that he drove past the upside of the gate, spectacularly and spectacular After a 15-meter flight ended up in the ice. Fortunately for the 21-year-old for whom the insert was not yet over. He slipped about a hundred meters towards the target area and rustled through a boundary cushion before stopping in the stadium. There he got up, apparently unharmed – which relieved the 15,000 spectators with applause.
After the terrorist was digested, it could be about the man who showed the best Super-G race of his career to the World Cup. Marco Odermatt from Switzerland started as a favorite and drove through the gates with a mixture of risk and ski feeling, which could be guessed at the latest at the latest that this had to be the gold recipe this Friday afternoon. “The ski did exactly what I wanted,” Odermatt later told ORF. It was an almost scary harmony between the driver and the slope, in the stadium party music was now running, an Odi to the joy.
As the best German, Simon Jocher is ranked 18th
The 27-year-old winner lost a second to the second Raphael Haaser, a world in skiing. And worth a note in the World Cup history because no Super-G world champion has won with such a big lead for 34 years. The Austrian Stephan Eberharter was even further ahead in 1991 at the then World Cup in Saalbach, when his home country won a total of eleven medals, five of them gold. After all, Austria leads the medal mirror in Saalbach after race day, divided with Italy and Switzerland.
The Norwegian Adrian Smiseth Sejersted (+1.15), the first to start, won bronze, five hundredths of a second ahead of Vincent Kriechmayr, who narrowly missed the third home medal. As the best German, Simon Jocher ranked 18th – with a considerable journey because he started despite pain after a heel bruise. “It was just awesome to be there again.” Rank 18 was not his claim, said the 28-year-old, “but with the training deficit and the failure I had, I have to go to it now.” Jocher’s teammate Romed Baumann, no less remarkable, drove at the age of 39. And Luis Vogt? The SC Garmisch man “has several strong bruises, but no serious injuries,” said DSV spokesman Ralf Eder.
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