Sunday, March 2, 2014

Alpine Skiing - Jansrud takes Kvitfjell win but Svindal secures Super-G title

Norway's Kjetil Jansrud capped off a successful outing in Kvitfjell, Norway with his second World Cup win of the season, but it was teammate Aksel Lund Svindal who secured the Super-G title with one race remaining.

Jansrud, winner of the Super-G gold at last month's Winter Olympics, recorded his first win in Friday's downhill when he shared top spot on the podium with Austrian rival Georg Streitberger. But he was the outright winner in front of his home crowd in Sunday's Super-G race, clocking a time of 1:31.39minutes to take gold. It was 0.26secs faster than Switzerland's Patrick Kueng in second while Matthias Mayer, gold medallist in the downhill in Sochi, was third 0.33secs behind Jansrud. Svindal missed out on the podium by 0.11secs in fourth but it was enough to see him claim this season's Super-G World Cup title for a third straight year to add to the downhill title he took on Friday.
Result
1. Kjetil Jansrud (Norway) 1:31.39
2. Patrick Kueng (Switzerland) 1:31.65
3. Matthias Mayer (Austria) 1:31.72
4. Aksel Lund Svindal (Norway) 1:31.83
5. Vincent Kriechmayr (Austria) 1:31.87
Super G standings
1 Aksel Lund Svindal (NOR) Norway 480
2 Matteo Marsaglia (ITA) Italy 249
3 Matthias Mayer (AUT) Austria 228
4 Werner Heel (ITA) Italy 224
5 Adrien Theaux (FRA) France 191
6 Hannes Reichelt (AUT) Austria 161
7 Ted Ligety (USA) United States 159
8 Kjetil Jansrud (NOR) Norway 154
- Joachim Puchner (AUT) Austria 154
10 Georg Streitberger (AUT) Austria 151

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