Austrian Snowboard team dominated the field in the World Cup Parallel Giant Slalom on the home turf of Kreischberg.

Arosa PSL winner Siegrfied Grabner won the Men's event, beating Swiss Simon Schoch in the Final act.

'Sigi' won both runs with consistent advantages and collected his 13th World Cup win.

Italy's Meinhard Erlacher finished third, by winning the small final against Swiss Heinz Inniger.

On the ladies side Doris Guenther triumphed against Japanese Tomoka Takeuchi.

The Asian rider edged out the Austrian in the first run by 0.05 seconds but fell down in the 2nd run.

Guenther claimed her third season win after getting successes in the PSL at Landgraaf and PGS at Limone.

Fellow teammate Claudia Riegler took the third place by beating Aussie Joanna Shaw.

Bulgarian national team member Alexandra Jekova took 6-th place in today's PGS. She reached quarter-finals, but fell back facing Japanese Tomoka Takeuchi.

Grabner overtook BA King Stefan Gimpl at the top of overall standings, while Guenther retained and increased her lead to a massive 1.258 points-advantage over teammate Heidi Neururer.

FIS
Tuesday, 06 January 2009 15:12