Moltzan sixth in Junior World Champs giant slalom
The weather was far from ideal, but it was a veteran field for the women’s FIS Junior World Championship giant slalom Thursday (Feb. 27) in Jasna, Slovakia. Of the top-10 finishers, nine had previous World Junior title meet experience. In fact, the bulk of the top 30 had previously competed at the event in previous years.
So a little weather was water off the back, literally.
“It was an interesting start to the day,” said Paula Moltzan, the top North American finisher on the day in sixth. “We woke up it was foggy. We got up to the hill and it was raining so it wasn’t ideal.”
The Italian dream team of Marta Bassino and Karoline Pichler finished on the top two steps of the podium, followed by Austrian Rosina Schneeberger in third.
“The first set was 25 meters with good rhythm all the way down. The start for the second run was moved down because of weather,” added Moltzan. “It was super windy and foggy, but the set was pretty open, which is not really my go-to, but it worked out. It was a level playing field because everyone was skiing in horrible weather.”
“I am extremely happy to have brought down the two fastest runs of the day!” exclaimed Bassino, on the day of her 18th birthday. “When I was in the lead after the first run, I was quite nervous because I didn’t know if I could make it to gold. But it went really well and already feels great to be Junior World Champion, now just minutes after the race. My teammate Karoline scored silver which makes us even happier and shows that the Italian team is in great shape!”
All of these athletes were familiar with one another, or at least familiar with their results from the previous season. A year ago, in Quebec, the U.S. Ski Team’s Moltzan finished 44th in the GS. She was not on the radar as a medal contender, at least not the same way 2013 bronze medal winner Romane Miradoli was, or fourth-place finisher Adeline Baud or fifth finisher Maryna Gasienca-Daniel from one year earlier. But Moltzan beat all of those more heavily favored foes this time around. This year’s gold medalist, Bassino, finished sixth in the downhill a season ago, and her teammate Pichler is competing in her fourth Junior World Championship. Schneeberger is a three-season veteran of the junior meet and had placed fifth in the Austrian national championship slalom.
Elisabeth Kappaurer was fourth, bettering the 11th the Austrian tallied a season ago in the same event and Swiss Jasmina Suter moved up one placing from sixth a season ago to fifth. In stark contrast, Moltzan jumped 36 places.
Canadian Candace Crawford showed progress from 31st a season ago to finish seventh, while her teammate Mikaela Tommy was 17th.
The first men’s downhill training run scheduled for today had to run form a lowered start due to the thick fog.
See more photos from this race in our gallery here.
RESULTS
Rank | Bib | FIS Code | Name | Year | Nation | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total Time | Diff. | FIS Points |
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1 | 6 | 299276 | BASSINO Marta | 1996 | ITA | 1:02.43 | 50.43 | 1:52.86 | 6.00 | |
2 | 15 | 298694 | PICHLER Karoline | 1994 | ITA | 1:02.74 | 50.39 | 1:53.13 | +0.27 | 8.13 |
3 | 2 | 56241 | SCHNEEBERGER Rosina | 1994 | AUT | 1:03.39 | 51.20 | 1:54.59 | +1.73 | 19.64 |
4 | 20 | 56199 | KAPPAURER Elisabeth | 1994 | AUT | 1:04.18 | 50.70 | 1:54.88 | +2.02 | 21.93 |
5 | 9 | 516394 | SUTER Jasmina | 1995 | SUI | 1:03.46 | 51.81 | 1:55.27 | +2.41 | 25.00 |
6 | 13 | 539909 | MOLTZAN Paula | 1994 | USA | 1:04.42 | 51.02 | 1:55.44 | +2.58 | 26.35 |
7 | 16 | 107387 | CRAWFORD Candace | 1994 | CAN | 1:04.40 | 51.14 | 1:55.54 | +2.68 | 27.13 |
8 | 5 | 506664 | FJAELLSTROEM Magdalena | 1995 | SWE | 1:04.24 | 51.41 | 1:55.65 | +2.79 | 28.00 |
9 | 22 | 516268 | WILD Simone | 1993 | SUI | 1:04.48 | 51.50 | 1:55.98 | +3.12 | 30.60 |
10 | 37 | 206520 | DORSCH Patrizia | 1994 | GER | 1:05.93 | 50.06 | 1:55.99 | +3.13 | 30.68 |
11 | 1 | 197497 | MIRADOLI Romane | 1994 | FRA | 1:04.48 | 51.52 | 1:56.00 | +3.14 | 30.76 |
12 | 4 | 516319 | SUTER Corinne | 1994 | SUI | 1:04.68 | 51.33 | 1:56.01 | +3.15 | 30.84 |
13 | 30 | 506555 | BLOMQVIST Lisa | 1994 | SWE | 1:04.81 | 51.34 | 1:56.15 | +3.29 | 31.94 |
14 | 39 | 705423 | VLHOVA Petra | 1995 | SVK | 1:05.41 | 50.75 | 1:56.16 | +3.30 | 32.02 |
15 | 10 | 307120 | ARAI Makiko | 1993 | JPN | 1:05.28 | 50.92 | 1:56.20 | +3.34 | 32.34 |
15 | 3 | 307493 | ANDO Asa | 1996 | JPN | 1:05.89 | 50.31 | 1:56.20 | +3.34 | 32.34 |
17 | 8 | 107532 | TOMMY Mikaela | 1995 | CAN | 1:03.80 | 52.47 | 1:56.27 | +3.41 | 32.89 |
18 | 32 | 299383 | MELESI Roberta | 1996 | ITA | 1:05.86 | 50.54 | 1:56.40 | +3.54 | 33.92 |
19 | 41 | 425981 | SKJOELD Maren | 1993 | NOR | 1:05.44 | 51.03 | 1:56.47 | +3.61 | 34.47 |
20 | 27 | 516344 | KOPP Rahel | 1994 | SUI | 1:05.87 | 50.64 | 1:56.51 | +3.65 | 34.78 |
21 | 23 | 435334 | GASIENICA-DANIEL Maryna | 1994 | POL | 1:05.47 | 51.28 | 1:56.75 | +3.89 | 36.68 |
22 | 28 | 225518 | GUEST Charlotte | 1993 | GBR | 1:05.48 | 51.43 | 1:56.91 | +4.05 | 37.94 |
23 | 17 | 405138 | JELINKOVA Adriana | 1995 | NED | 1:05.94 | 51.08 | 1:57.02 | +4.16 | 38.81 |
24 | 24 | 506583 | SAEFVENBERG Charlotta | 1994 | SWE | 1:05.45 | 51.69 | 1:57.14 | +4.28 | 39.75 |
25 | 12 | 206548 | MAGG Ann Katrin | 1994 | GER | 1:05.87 | 51.44 | 1:57.31 | +4.45 | 41.09 |
26 | 45 | 426153 | NORBYE Tuva | 1996 | NOR | 1:06.22 | 51.17 | 1:57.39 | +4.53 | 41.72 |
27 | 38 | 516284 | GISIN Michelle | 1993 | SUI | 1:05.84 | 51.57 | 1:57.41 | +4.55 | 41.88 |
28 | 52 | 435313 | MAJERCZYK Sabina | 1993 | POL | 1:05.89 | 51.53 | 1:57.42 | +4.56 | 41.96 |
29 | 46 | 506421 | WESTMAN Hanna | 1993 | SWE | 1:06.98 | 51.45 | 1:58.43 | +5.57 | 49.92 |
30 | 25 | 56200 | NICOLUSSI Kerstin | 1994 | AUT | 1:06.92 | 53.13 | 2:00.05 | +7.19 | 62.70 |
31 | 57 | 485926 | KRYUKOVA Kristina | 1997 | RUS | 1:07.57 | 52.92 | 2:00.49 | +7.63 | 66.17 |
32 | 47 | 426092 | CHRISTENSEN Nora Grieg | 1995 | NOR | 1:08.02 | 54.00 | 2:02.02 | +9.16 | 78.23 |
33 | 80 | 185383 | AHONEN Saana | 1994 | FIN | 1:09.32 | 53.51 | 2:02.83 | +9.97 | 84.62 |
34 | 34 | 307255 | ISHIKAWA Haruna | 1994 | JPN | 1:08.06 | 55.33 | 2:03.39 | +10.53 | 89.04 |
35 | 67 | 485802 | TKACHENKO Ekaterina | 1995 | RUS | 1:09.58 | 53.84 | 2:03.42 | +10.56 | 89.27 |
36 | 53 | 35156 | BANCORA Salome | 1993 | ARG | 1:09.29 | 54.90 | 2:04.19 | +11.33 | 95.35 |
37 | 63 | 255367 | VILHJALMSDOTTIR Helga Maria | 1995 | ISL | 1:10.03 | 54.62 | 2:04.65 | +11.79 | 98.97 |
38 | 81 | 107556 | MCCARTHY Jocelyn | 1996 | CAN | 1:10.40 | 54.99 | 2:05.39 | +12.53 | 104.81 |
39 | 95 | 255373 | JOHANNSDOTTIR Thelma Rut | 1995 | ISL | 1:10.13 | 55.34 | 2:05.47 | +12.61 | 105.44 |
40 | 87 | 155698 | RUDOLFOVA Veronika | 1993 | CZE | 1:10.64 | 55.50 | 2:06.14 | +13.28 | 110.72 |
41 | 82 | 95126 | POPOVA Aleksandra | 1996 | BUL | 1:10.72 | 55.93 | 2:06.65 | +13.79 | 114.75 |
42 | 94 | 705424 | MIKLOSOVA Katarina | 1995 | SVK | 1:11.47 | 55.65 | 2:07.12 | +14.26 | 118.45 |
43 | 78 | 485799 | ALEXEEVA Nadezda | 1995 | RUS | 1:10.97 | 56.18 | 2:07.15 | +14.29 | 118.69 |
44 | 85 | 155790 | CAMKOVA Veronika | 1996 | CZE | 1:10.93 | 56.44 | 2:07.37 | +14.51 | 120.42 |
45 | 77 | 155727 | CAPOVA Gabriela | 1993 | CZE | 1:11.08 | 56.79 | 2:07.87 | +15.01 | 124.37 |
46 | 88 | 705415 | SOBEKOVA Simona | 1994 | SVK | 1:12.45 | 55.53 | 2:07.98 | +15.12 | 125.23 |
47 | 91 | 435371 | WASEK Katarzyna | 1996 | POL | 1:12.54 | 55.97 | 2:08.51 | +15.65 | 129.41 |
48 | 103 | 695108 | KNYSH Olha | 1995 | UKR | 1:13.38 | 57.37 | 2:10.75 | +17.89 | 147.08 |
49 | 90 | 705402 | TRAJCIKOVA Eva | 1993 | SVK | 1:15.38 | 57.10 | 2:12.48 | +19.62 | 160.72 |
50 | 106 | 465092 | CIOCANEL Raluca Georgiana | 1996 | ROU | 1:15.84 | 59.32 | 2:15.16 | +22.30 | 181.86 |
51 | 107 | 245070 | CSIMA Laura | 1997 | HUN | 1:19.81 | 1:03.75 | 2:23.56 | +30.70 | 248.10 |
52 | 104 | 605004 | GASPAR Veronica | 1995 | ISV | 1:22.33 | 1:03.91 | 2:26.24 | +33.38 | 269.23 |
53 | 111 | 345095 | NASSAR Lea | 1995 | LIB | 1:25.80 | 1:07.55 | 2:33.35 | +40.49 | 325.30 |
54 | 110 | 345098 | KEIROUZ Celine | 1995 | LIB | 1:28.71 | 1:08.32 | 2:37.03 | +44.17 | 354.32 |
55 | 109 | 135010 | ONG CHENG Jung | 1997 | TPE | 1:33.68 | 1:10.22 | 2:43.90 | +51.04 | 408.50 |
56 | 113 | 625024 | DEVI Varsha | 1995 | IND | 1:44.60 | 1:18.37 | 3:02.97 | +1:10.11 | 558.88 |
Disqualified 2nd run | ||||||||||
36 | 56206 | KOECK Hannah | 1994 | AUT | ||||||
33 | 6535086 | GIBSON Libby | 1994 | USA | ||||||
Disqualified 1st run | ||||||||||
50 | 298868 | NOGLER KOSTNER Tatiana | 1994 | ITA | ||||||
Did not start 2nd run | ||||||||||
76 | 35177 | SIMARI BIRKNER Angelica | 1994 | ARG | ||||||
58 | 385092 | KOMSIC Andrea | 1996 | CRO | ||||||
Did not start 1st run | ||||||||||
54 | 206536 | WALLNER Marina | 1994 | GER | ||||||
Did not finish 2nd run | ||||||||||
105 | 555037 | GASUNA Evelina | 1997 | LAT | ||||||
83 | 35202 | RONCALLO Manuela | 1996 | ARG | ||||||
72 | 107583 | REMME Roni | 1996 | CAN | ||||||
65 | 565453 | KOPSE Desiree | 1996 | SLO | ||||||
64 | 355056 | FRICK Joana | 1993 | LIE | ||||||
62 | 485807 | OVCHINIKOVA Daria | 1995 | RUS | ||||||
48 | 426100 | HOLTMANN Mina Fuerst | 1995 | NOR | ||||||
42 | 539678 | PETERSON Foreste | 1993 | USA | ||||||
21 | 516283 | ELLENBERGER Andrea | 1993 | SUI | ||||||
18 | 485731 | ROMANOVA Anastasia | 1993 | RUS | ||||||
14 | 155699 | PAULATHOVA Katerina | 1993 | CZE | ||||||
Did not finish 1st run | ||||||||||
108 | 235292 | SAMARINOU Maria | 1996 | GRE | ||||||
102 | 695110 | BELOBORODOVA Rada-oleksandra | 1996 | UKR | ||||||
101 | 65108 | NELLES Mathilde | 1997 | BEL | ||||||
100 | 255352 | ASGEIRSDOTTIR Erla | 1994 | ISL | ||||||
99 | 185427 | ANDERSSON Camilla | 1997 | FIN | ||||||
98 | 435373 | KOLASA Anna | 1996 | POL | ||||||
97 | 705431 | PRIELOZNA Laura | 1996 | SVK | ||||||
96 | 115173 | MONTESINOS Macarena | 1995 | CHI | ||||||
93 | 255357 | EINARSDOTTIR Freydis Halla | 1994 | ISL | ||||||
92 | 715167 | MERDANOVIC Sejla | 1997 | BIH | ||||||
89 | 695101 | TIKUN Tetyana | 1994 | UKR | ||||||
86 | 225612 | MEAD Darcie | 1996 | GBR | ||||||
84 | 115143 | VYHMEISTER Stefanie | 1993 | CHI | ||||||
79 | 385071 | SOLA Matilda | 1994 | CRO | ||||||
75 | 155740 | STRAKOVA Bara | 1994 | CZE | ||||||
74 | 185357 | VIRKKULA Sohvi | 1993 | FIN | ||||||
73 | 185354 | HIRVONEN Roosa | 1993 | FIN | ||||||
71 | 565393 | KOSI Mihaela | 1993 | SLO | ||||||
70 | 415205 | HUDSON Piera | 1996 | NZL | ||||||
69 | 506762 | KARLSSON Hildur | 1996 | SWE | ||||||
68 | 385069 | MISAK Iva | 1993 | CRO | ||||||
66 | 385093 | TRSINSKI Sasa | 1996 | CRO | ||||||
61 | 299466 | DELAGO Nicole | 1996 | ITA | ||||||
60 | 565401 | BUCIK Ana | 1993 | SLO | ||||||
59 | 107613 | GRENIER Valerie | 1996 | CAN | ||||||
56 | 539927 | LAPANJA Lila | 1994 | USA | ||||||
55 | 539932 | IRWIN Katharine | 1994 | USA | ||||||
51 | 197812 | GERACI Romane | 1997 | FRA | ||||||
49 | 565428 | BREZOVNIK Sasa | 1995 | SLO | ||||||
44 | 197407 | WILLMANN Alison | 1993 | FRA | ||||||
43 | 206532 | SCHMOTZ Marlene | 1994 | GER | ||||||
40 | 506557 | GRASSL Paulina | 1994 | SWE | ||||||
35 | 206487 | WIESLER Maren | 1993 | GER | ||||||
31 | 565417 | PLUT Eli | 1994 | SLO | ||||||
29 | 298642 | GIARDINI Ida | 1993 | ITA | ||||||
26 | 56159 | REISS Lisa-Maria | 1993 | AUT | ||||||
19 | 197616 | ALPHAND Estelle | 1995 | FRA | ||||||
11 | 197651 | DIREZ Clara | 1995 | FRA | ||||||
7 | 56217 | BRUNNER Stephanie | 1994 | AUT |