. world ski news : Sestriere: Baumann gets first win; Janka wins title - 22 Ôåâðóàðè 2009 - 19:01
A four time medallist at the World Junior Championships in 2006, Romed Baumann proved to his Austrian coaches he has now arrived in the big leagues, claiming his first World Cup win in a super G/slalom combined at Sestriere, Italy Sunday.
Baumann won the super G leg but found himself looking up at double World Championship silver medal winner Julien Lizeroux when he took his slalom run. The Frenchman had been sixth after the speed leg and had smoked the slalom leg, as usual, to hold the lead. Baumann shrugged off the pressure and skied smoothly to the win.
Tying in third were Carlo Janka and Christof Innerhofer, both .68 of a second back of Baumann's combined run time. Jean-Baptiste Grange used the fastest slalom time on the day to claim a tie for fifth with Marcel Hirscher, who had the second fastest slalom leg of the day.
World Cup overall standings leader Ivica Kostelic skied conservatively to post seventh but leads the standings 802-771 over Grange. Benjamin Raich finished ninth on the day and slipped to third in the standings with 769.
Janka claimed the combined title edging Silvan Zurbriggen 242-231. Baumann finished third.
Baumann said he had been struggling with expectations over the past few seasons and finally had enough. "I have been fighting too much," he told reporters. "Was probably too tense. Now I just tried to takie it easy and it worked. I lot has been expected of me. ... I hope this is going to loberate me and that I'm now on my way."
Janka seemed surprised with his combined title. "I never really focused on winning a World Cup discipline, but it is great to take a crystal globe home."
By Hank McKee
Sunday, 22 February 2009
SkiRacing.com
Equipment
Men's super combined, Sestriere, Italy, Feb. 22, 2009
Skier, skis/boots/bindings
1 Baumann, Salomon/Salomon/Salomon
2 Lizeroux, Dynastar/Lange/Look
3 Janka, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
3 Innerhofer, Rossignol/Rossignol/Rossignol
5 Grange, Rossignol/Rossignol/Rossignol
5 Hirscher, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
7 Kostelic, Fischer/Fischer/Fischer
8 Myhrer, Rossignol/Rossignol/Rossignol
9 Raich, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
10 Zurbriggen, Rossignol/Lange/Rossignol
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The SCOOP
Men's super combined, Sestriere, Italy, Feb. 22, 2009. … It is the 28th race of the men's 38 race 2009 World Cup schedule. … It is the fourth of four scheduled combineds. … It is the second of two events at Sestriere this weekend. … It is the 58th World Cup at Sestriere including a knock-out slalom for each gender (2002) and a combined split with Val d'Isere in 1985. … It is just the third World Cup combined (and first men's) held at Sestriere including the split event in '85. … Eric Hess won both of them, one Dec. 14, 1983 and the shared event Dec. 12, 1985. …It is a super G/slalom combined.
It is the first career World Cup win for Romed Baumann. … He had been second in combined at Reiteralm Dec. 10, 2006 for his only other Cup podium. … His previous best this season was fourth in GS at Sestriere yesterday.
It is the second career World Cup podium for Julien Lizeroux. … The other was a win in slalom at Kitzbuehel Jan. 25. … It is his fourth podium of the season including two silver medals (combined and slalom) at the World Championships. … He has been first or second in four of his last five completed races.
It is the fourth career World Cup podium for Carlo Janka all of them coming this season. … It is his second podium in a World Cup combined having won at Wengen Jan. 16. …Add to his podium totals this season a gold medal in GS and a bronze in DH at Worlds.
It is the second career World Cup podium for Christof Innerhofer. … He won the DH at Bormio Dec. 28. … It is his career best combined result replacing a seventh place finish at Chamonix Jan. 27, 2008.
It is the best combined placing of the season for Ted Ligety. … and his 17th scoring result. … It is the 15th scoring result of the season for John Kucera and his third best combined result of three.
Ivica Kostelic (7th in race) maintains the World Cup overall standings lead 802-771 over Jean-Baptiste Grange. … Benjamin Raich (9th in race) drops to third overall with 769pts. … Bode Miller (did not race) is the top American on the overall list in eighth with 517pts. … Carlo Janka claims the combined title 242-231 over Silvan Zurbriggen (10th in race). … Baumann finished in third with 169pts moving past Kostelic (166). … John Kucera is the top North American on that list in 13th with 77pts. … Top U.S. skier is Ted Ligety in 44th with six points.
Austria leads the Nations Cup 7974-5841 over Switzerland. … Italy is third at 4556 and the U.S. fourth at 3395. … Canada is eighth at 1815.
By Hank McKee
SkiRacing.com
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Run 1 Run 2 Total Time FIS Points
1 9 51215 BAUMANN Romed 1986 AUT 1:35.23 50.50 2:25.73 0.00
2 8 191459 LIZEROUX Julien 1979 FRA 1:36.44 49.61 2:26.05 2.72
3 21 511313 JANKA Carlo 1986 SUI 1:36.51 49.90 2:26.41 5.79
3 11 293006 INNERHOFER Christof 1984 ITA 1:35.64 50.77 2:26.41 5.79
5 10 192665 GRANGE Jean-Baptiste 1984 FRA 1:37.55 49.07 2:26.62 7.57
5 4 53831 HIRSCHER Marcel 1989 AUT 1:37.37 49.25 2:26.62 7.57
7 17 380260 KOSTELIC Ivica 1979 CRO 1:36.76 50.16 2:26.92 10.13
8 5 421400 MYHRE Lars Elton 1984 NOR 1:37.12 49.84 2:26.96 10.47
9 18 50625 RAICH Benjamin 1978 AUT 1:37.12 49.93 2:27.05 11.23
10 20 510890 ZURBRIGGEN Silvan 1981 SUI 1:37.66 49.54 2:27.20 12.51
11 16 421328 SVINDAL Aksel Lund 1982 NOR 1:36.73 50.93 2:27.66 16.42
12 12 511352 VILETTA Sandro 1986 SUI 1:38.02 49.71 2:27.73 17.02
13 13 480736 HOROSHILOV Alexandr 1984 RUS 1:38.61 49.26 2:27.87 18.21
14 32 510030 CUCHE Didier 1974 SUI 1:35.58 52.73 2:28.31 21.95
15 1 290998 STAUDACHER Patrick 1980 ITA 1:35.79 52.81 2:28.60 24.42
16 67 191778 PICHOT Sebastien 1981 FRA 1:38.50 50.32 2:28.82 26.29
17 29 510727 DEFAGO Didier 1977 SUI 1:37.14 51.74 2:28.88 26.80
18 33 292491 MOELGG Manfred 1982 ITA 1:39.06 49.86 2:28.92 27.14
18 7 191462 PAQUIN Pierre 1979 FRA 1:37.58 51.34 2:28.92 27.14
20 64 501017 MYHRER Andre 1983 SWE 1:39.33 49.67 2:29.00 27.82
21 22 292455 FILL Peter 1982 ITA 1:37.10 52.07 2:29.17 29.27
22 31 292514 HEEL Werner 1982 ITA 1:37.33 51.91 2:29.24 29.87
23 26 192504 MERMILLOD BLONDIN Thomas 1984 FRA 1:38.51 50.79 2:29.30 30.38
24 24 501026 RAINER Niklas 1983 SWE 1:38.07 51.32 2:29.39 31.14
25 30 534562 LIGETY Ted 1984 USA 1:39.40 50.11 2:29.51 32.16
26 23 192746 THEAUX Adrien 1984 FRA 1:38.46 51.36 2:29.82 34.80
27 60 180534 SANDELL Marcus 1987 FIN 1:38.70 51.28 2:29.98 36.16
28 15 102873 KUCERA John 1984 CAN 1:36.96 53.07 2:30.03 36.59
29 41 51007 SCHOERGHOFER Philipp 1983 AUT 1:38.75 51.32 2:30.07 36.93
30 3 560332 JERMAN Andrej 1978 SLO 1:36.98 53.15 2:30.13 37.44
31 40 51332 SCHEIBER Florian 1987 AUT 1:38.38 51.91 2:30.29 38.80
32 39 293550 MARSAGLIA Matteo 1985 ITA 1:38.80 51.54 2:30.34 39.23
33 68 420148 KARLSEN Truls Ove 1975 NOR 1:38.86 51.58 2:30.44 40.08
34 43 51401 GRAF Bernhard 1988 AUT 1:39.08 51.40 2:30.48 40.42
35 50 51159 NOESIG Christoph 1985 AUT 1:38.84 52.14 2:30.98 44.67
36 19 380292 ZRNCIC-DIM Natko 1986 CRO 1:39.54 52.19 2:31.73 51.05
37 42 511139 KUENG Patrick 1984 SUI 1:38.66 53.25 2:31.91 52.58
38 2 380291 RATKIC Ivan 1986 CRO 1:38.78 53.25 2:32.03 53.61
39 35 294277 KLOTZ Siegmar 1987 ITA 1:40.87 51.54 2:32.41 56.84
40 52 102239 COUSINEAU Julien 1981 CAN 1:41.12 51.36 2:32.48 57.43
41 55 102727 STUTZ Paul 1983 CAN 1:40.96 51.77 2:32.73 59.56
42 57 30149 SIMARI BIRKNER Cristian Javier 1980 ARG 1:41.17 52.78 2:33.95 69.94
43 53 53902 MAYER Matthias 1990 AUT 1:40.92 54.07 2:34.99 78.79
44 49 481006 ZUEV Stepan 1988 RUS 1:41.74 55.85 2:37.59 100.92
45 61 370022 JENOT Olivier 1988 MON 1:42.45 1:41.27 3:23.72 493.43
Disqualified 2nd run
63 201702 NEUREUTHER Felix 1984 GER
Did not start 2nd run
66 510747 GRUENENFELDER Tobias 1977 SUI
Did not start 1st run
51 501101 BYGGMARK Jens 1985 SWE
Did not finish 2nd run
59 534040 COCHRAN Jimmy 1981 USA
48 561117 KUERNER Miha 1987 SLO
47 501324 OLSSON Matts 1988 SWE
45 294911 PATSCHEIDER Hagen 1988 ITA
37 510997 BERTHOD Marc 1983 SUI
36 50919 STRUGER Peter 1982 AUT
28 380298 SIROKI Tin 1987 CRO
25 292291 THANEI Stefan 1981 ITA
6 421483 JANSRUD Kjetil 1985 NOR
Did not finish 1st run
65 534959 JITLOFF Tim 1985 USA
62 102435 JANYK Michael 1982 CAN
58 561087 MARKIC Gasper 1986 SLO
56 410198 HOWDEN Angus 1981 NZE
54 150594 TREJBAL Filip 1985 CZE
46 192932 FAYED Guillermo 1985 FRA
44 201900 WAGNER Hannes 1986 GER
38 561085 KRIZAJ Andrej 1986 SLO
34 501076 OLSSON Hans 1984 SWE
27 560406 GORZA Ales 1980 SLO
14 150644 KRYZL Krystof 1986 CZ