СНОУБОРД СВЕТОВНА КУПА БАНСКО 2018. Канадецът Джеси Джей Андерсън и чехкинята Естер Ледецка триумфираха в първия старт в дисциплината паралелен гигантски слалом от Световната купа по сноуборд в Банско 2018.

За огромно съжаление на българската публика във финалите на състезанието нямаше българско участие както при мъжете, така и при жените, след като всички български представители - Радослав Янков (18-ти), Димитър Ганичев (49-ти), Станислав Вангелов (51-ви) и Михаил Крашняк (52-ри) и Теодора Пенчева (33-та) при жените не преодоляха квалификациите. Най-голямата ни надежда за челно класиране - Радо Янков, се справи отлично с червеното трасе и даде 4-то време по него, но синьото му изигра лоша шега навръх рождения му ден. С едва 36-то време по него "Дивеча" завърши на 18-та позиция в квалификацията със сборно време 1:17.13 мин, което се оказа на минималната 1 десета от секундата от попадане в първите 16, съответно от влизане в осминафинала. Наистина жалко! Всичко това обаче не лиши многобройните зрители по трибуните на Бъндеришка поляна от много вълнуващи емоции.

При мъжете успеха днес извоюва 42-годишният ветеран Андерсън, който изпревари с 0.42 секунди във финала швейцареца Невин Галмарини. В спора за третото място в изцяло италиански двубой Едвин Корати победи Мирко Феличети, който допусна грешка и отпадна.

При дамите 22-годишната Ледецка победи с 0.62 секунди германката Селина Йогр в големия финал, а в малкия за третото място Рамона Терезия Хофмайстер завърши с 1.33 секунди пред рускинята Альона Заварзина.

В генералното класиране при мъжете след 8 от 12 старта води Галмарини с 4530 точки, следван от италианеца Роланд Фишналер с 3490 точки, докато трети е руснакът Андрей Собольов с 3166 точки. Радослав Янков е пети с 2530 точки. В класирането за Малката световна купа в паралелния гигантски слалом водач отново е Галмарини с 3810 точки, втори е Фишналер с 2290 точки, докато трети е австриецът Александър Пайер с 2200 точки. Янков е осми с 2010 точки.

При дамите водач за Големия кристален глобус е Ледецка с 5290 точки, втора е Хофмайстер с 4130 точки, а трета е австрийката Сабине Шьофман с 3650 точки. В дисциплината паралелен гигантски слалом води отново Ледецка с 5000 точки с 5 победи в 5 старта до момента. Втора е Хофмайстер с 4130 точки, а трета с 3650 точки е Шьофман.

Ledecka and Anderson victorious in first Bansko PGS

SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP BANSKO 2018. Ester Ledecka (CZE) and Jasey Jay Anderson (CAN) have claimed victory in the first of two parallel giant slalom races scheduled in Bansko this weekend.

It was a race which had it all as the opening event of this three-day snowboard-mania in Bulgaria was not only the penultimate test under competition conditions prior to the up-coming Olympic Winter Games but also still decisive for some teams to finally name their roster for PyeongChang 2018.

However, with the World Cup title race in full swing athletes were focused to fight for some precious points while facing a blue bird sky and, unfortunately, some rough snow conditions which gave them some hard times during the cold early morning qualifiers.

But when the top-16 ladies and men finally entered the knock out rounds, everything was set for a thrilling head to head action which could make for some decent Hollywood plots.

Those who love happy ends definitely got their worth today, when Ester Ledecka, right back from a cold which had sidelined her from competing and forced her to sit out last Sunday's PGS event in Rogla, kept the momentum from four wins in a row on the PGS World Cup circuit to make it five out of five parallel giant slalom races she had entered this season.

By beating Selina Joerg from Germany in the big final, she therefore extended her comfortable lead in the World Cup standings.

“It was a great day. I'm really happy that I was able to race again after being sick the last days. It was a lot of fighting today, and I'm happy that I was able to fight to the end”, she said.

However, the most dominant alpine snowboarder of this season also had the luck when she needed it the most when her strongest pursuer in the World Cup standings Ramona Hofmeister (GER) gave her some headaches in the semis.

The Germany racer, who had earned her career's first two World Cup wins over the course of the last days, had already gained some lead on Ledecka when a toe edge mistake dashed all hopes of becoming the first woman to beat Ledecka in a PGS duel this winter.

However, earning the third rank in the small finals against Alena Zavarzina (RUS) was a little bit of a redemption for Hofmeister:

“It still gets me a bit angry when I think of this. I definitely threw away a better result. But finishing third did make up for it. I could get used to finish on the podium,” the 21-year-old Bavarian said after here fourth top-3 result this season.

While things kind of went as expected in the women's competition, the men's event provided an “always believe in yourself” story as one rider added a totally surprising and unexpected new chapter to the snowboard history books.

Jasey Jay Anderson, no less than the 2010 Olympic Champion, became the oldest rider ever to win a Snowboard World Cup at the age of 42.

The oldest racer in the field edged off World Cup leader Nevin Galmarini (SUI) to the second rank taking home his career's 28th win in his 257th start.

Almost eight years after his last triumph, the four-time World Champion from Mont-Tremblant, QC is therefore finally back to winning ways right before entering his sixth Olympic Winter Games.

“You know, unfortunately I'm not preparing for victory. I have been developing equipment for eight years now, and finally in Rogla I was able to get a touch on something I was really sure of. Here, with these conditions, I was able to put it to a real test. I didn't know that I still have the legs for this but I guess I still do. Now, with the boards finally getting better, I'm looking forward to the Olympics and something big,” he explained.

And the winter sport's pinnacle event next month will for sure become an historical one as Anderson will then be the only rider who will have competed in all Olympics since snowboarding was added to the programme back in 1998.

In an all Italian small final Edwin Coratti had the whip hand over his teammate Mirko Felicetti.

While the snowboard cross athletes will take over centre stage in Bulgaria tomorrow with a SBX Sprint World Cup event with the finals slated for 11:30 CET, the raceboarders will come back on Sunday for a second race in Bansko with the finals scheduled for 13:00 CET.

FIS Snowboard
26 January 2018 16:17

FIS SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP 2018
RESULTS FINALS
Bansko (BUL)
FRI 26 JAN 2018
MEN PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM

1 31 1209202 ANDERSON Jasey Jay 1975 CAN 1000.00 1000.00
2 14 1514944 GALMARINI Nevin 1986 SUI 800.00 800.00
3 13 9290107 CORATTI Edwin 1991 ITA 600.00 600.00
4 17 9290151 FELICETTI Mirko 1992 ITA DNF 500.00 500.00
5 3 1560730 DUFOUR Sylvain 1982 FRA 450.00 450.00
6 2 1054984 KARL Benjamin 1985 AUT 400.00 400.00
7 38 9100167 BEAULIEU Sebastien 1991 CAN DNF 360.00 360.00
8 9 9480495 SARSEMBAEV Dmitry 1997 RUS 320.00 320.00
9 1 9050029 KISLINGER Sebastian 1988 AUT 290.00 290.00
10 5 9320091 LEE Sangho 1995 KOR 260.00 260.00
11 6 9050042 PAYER Alexander 1989 AUT 240.00 240.00
12 19 9510316 CAVIEZEL Dario 1995 SUI 220.00 220.00
13 8 1093190 PROMMEGGER Andreas 1980 AUT 200.00 200.00
14 30 9320014 KIM Sangkyum 1989 KOR 180.00 180.00
15 24 1514943 FLUETSCH Kaspar 1986 SUI 160.00 160.00
16 11 9560053 MASTNAK Tim 1991 SLO 150.00 150.00
17 25 9050095 MATHIES Lukas 1991 AUT 1:17.12 140.00 140.00
18 7 1094969 YANKOV Radoslav 1990 BUL 1:17.13 130.00 130.00
19 20 9480485 WILD Vic 1986 RUS 1:17.21 120.00 120.00
20 16 9290025 MICK Christoph 1988 ITA 1:17.23 110.00 110.00
21 21 9200092 BAUMEISTER Stefan 1993 GER 1:17.24 100.00 100.00
22 4 7560012 MARGUC Rok 1986 SLO 1:17.36 90.00 90.00
23 43 9430120 KWIATKOWSKI Oskar 1996 POL 1:17.42 80.00 80.00
24 12 7300127 SHIBA Masaki 1986 JPN 1:17.58 70.00 70.00
25 27 9480398 KOLEGOV Valery 1995 RUS 1:17.63 60.00 60.00
25 18 7538766 MARCH Aaron 1986 ITA 1:17.63 60.00 60.00
27 33 1204999 BERGMANN Alexander 1987 GER 1:17.96 45.00 45.00
28 36 9560018 HAFNER Jure 1989 SLO 1:18.27 40.00 40.00
29 40 9480116 KOTOV Konstantin 1991 RUS 1:18.31 36.00 36.00
30 26 9300517 KAMINO Shinnosuke 1993 JPN 1:18.50 32.00 32.00
31 34 9531136 BURNS Robert 1990 USA 1:18.95 28.00 28.00
32 23 1442390 BUSSLER Patrick 1984 GER 1:29.19 26.00 26.00
33 35 9100195 GARDNER Darren 1990 CAN 38.48 24.00 24.00
34 22 9480632 LOGINOV Dmitry 2000 RUS 38.87 22.00 22.00
35 29 9320041 CHOI Bogun 1991 KOR 39.03 20.00 20.00
36 32 7535029 TRAPP Michael 1988 USA 39.09 19.70 19.70
37 41 9200093 HUPFAUER Christian 1993 GER 39.25 19.40 19.40
38 42 1124951 BI Ye 1994 CHN 39.30 19.10 19.10
39 44 9100945 GAUDET Arnaud 2000 CAN 39.37 18.80 18.80
40 46 9690062 BELINSKYY Oleksandr 1995 UKR 39.48 18.50 18.50
41 45 9530791 ROSENCRANZ Ryan 1994 USA 39.69 18.20 18.20
42 39 9430124 NOWACZYK Michal 1996 POL 39.79 17.90 17.90
43 50 1124948 ZHANG Xuan 1992 CHN 40.20 17.60 17.60
44 47 7537128 MACCUTCHEON Steven 1987 USA 40.34 17.30 17.30
45 48 9690121 KHARUK Mykhailo 1999 UKR 40.38 17.00 17.00
46 51 9320050 SHIN Bongshik 1992 KOR 40.55 16.70 16.70
47 58 1684990 NAZGAIDZE Revaz 1985 GEO 40.78 16.40 16.40
48 52 1473042 BRUZEK Viktor 1980 CZE 41.32 16.10 16.10
49 55 9090065 GANICHEV Dimitar 1994 BUL 42.55
50 53 9320064 LEE Je Jung 1992 KOR 42.73
51 60 1094937 VANGELOV Stanislav 1983 BUL 43.85
52 59 1094943 KRASHNIAK Mihail 1974 BUL 46.40
53 28 9290200 BORMOLINI Maurizio 1994 ITA 48.67
Did not finish
57 1653656 TEODORESCU Adrian 1973 ROU
56 9700022 BACO Matej 1992 SVK
54 1653462 MORTILA ZAHARESCU Toma-Andrei 1976 ROU
49 9040211 DE OLIVEIRA Christian 1999 POR
37 9480107 SHIPILOV Konstantin 1990 RUS
15 9480117 SOBOLEV Andrey 1989 RUS
10 1163127 FISCHNALLER Roland 1980 ITA

FIS SNOWBOARD WORLD CUP 2018
RESULTS FINALS
Bansko (BUL)
FRI 26 JAN 2018
LADIES PARALLEL GIANT SLALOM

1 4 1159979 LEDECKA Ester 1995 CZE 1000.00 1000.00
2 2 9205004 JOERG Selina 1988 GER 800.00 800.00
3 15 9205058 HOFMEISTER Ramona Theresia 1996 GER 600.00 600.00
4 5 1489930 ZAVARZINA Alena 1989 RUS 500.00 500.00
5 16 1489922 TUDEGESHEVA Ekaterina 1987 RUS 450.00 450.00
6 3 1569955 KOTNIK Gloria 1989 SLO DNF 400.00 400.00
7 7 9515102 JENNY Ladina 1993 SUI DNF 360.00 360.00
8 25 1699945 DANCHA Annamari 1990 UKR 320.00 320.00
9 11 1746485 DUJMOVITS Julia 1987 AUT DNF 290.00 290.00
10 1 9055006 MESCHIK Ina 1990 AUT 260.00 260.00
11 10 9055032 SCHOEFFMANN Sabine 1992 AUT 240.00 240.00
12 14 9055071 ULBING Daniela 1998 AUT 220.00 220.00
13 20 1489999 KHATOMCHENKOVA Ekaterina 1992 RUS DNF 200.00 200.00
14 12 1004920 RIEGLER Claudia 1973 AUT 180.00 180.00
15 24 9205050 LOCH Cheyenne 1994 GER DNF 160.00 160.00
16 21 9515066 MUELLER Stefanie 1992 SUI DNF 150.00 150.00
17 13 9515082 ZOGG Julie 1992 SUI 1:22.67 140.00 140.00
18 17 9485187 BYKOVA Milena 1998 RUS 1:22.83 130.00 130.00
19 6 1543464 TAKEUCHI Tomoka 1983 JPN 1:22.84 120.00 120.00
20 18 9485145 SOBOLEVA Natalia 1995 RUS 1:22.96 110.00 110.00
21 37 9325017 JEONG Haerim 1995 KOR 1:23.73 100.00 100.00
22 28 9305144 SATO Emi 1990 JPN 1:24.15 90.00 90.00
22 27 7205013 KOBER Amelie 1987 GER 1:24.15 90.00 90.00
24 36 1129982 ZANG Ruxin 1994 CHN 1:24.48 70.00 70.00
25 8 9205057 LANGENHORST Carolin 1996 GER 1:24.63 60.00 60.00
26 29 9435005 KROL Aleksandra 1990 POL 1:24.81 50.00 50.00
27 34 1439979 SZTOKFISZ Karolina 1989 POL 1:25.01 45.00 45.00
28 31 9435030 BIELA Weronika 1991 POL 1:27.06 40.00 40.00
29 26 9295071 OCHNER Nadya 1993 ITA 1:27.45 36.00 36.00
30 23 9125001 GONG Naiying 1998 CHN 1:27.90 32.00 32.00
31 9 7519960 KUMMER Patrizia 1987 SUI 1:29.27 28.00 28.00
32 30 1489929 ILYUKHINA Ekaterina 1987 RUS 41.56 26.00 26.00
33 42 1605641 PENTCHEVA Teodora 1982 BUL 42.36 24.00 24.00
34 35 9105175 GERENCSER Katrina 1993 CAN 42.45 22.00 22.00
35 39 9535325 CARRIGAN Maggie 1996 USA 42.91 20.00 20.00
36 41 9105244 HAWKRIGG Jennifer 1996 CAN 43.64 19.70 19.70
37 33 9515154 GASSER Larissa 1997 SUI 45.79 19.40 19.40
38 43 7519657 CHAMPAGNE Abby 1986 USA 46.87
39 38 9105144 FARRELL Megan 1992 CAN 48.96
40 44 1469958 POPESCU SELEUSAN Ioana Dana 1989 ROU 51.80
41 19 9485165 SALIKHOVA Elizaveta 1996 RUS 53.55
Did not finish
40 1329978 SHIN Dahae 1988 KOR
32 9205056 HOCHREITER Melanie 1996 GER
Did not start
22 9405023 DEKKER Michelle 1996 NED