Roster set for Munich Parallel Event

Following this week’s alpine World Cup races in Semmering and Bormio, the start lists for the Jan. 2 parallel slalom event in Munich, Germany were finalized.

Similar to Champions Cup events that have been held in Moscow the last two seasons, next week’s race will bring together 32 of the World Cup’s top men and women to go head-to-head in a parallel slalom format in the Munich Olympic Park. It will be the first event of its kind to award FIS World Cup points for the overall ranking. The winners will get 100 points added to their overall scores, while all participants will get a minimum of 15 points. A prize purse of 200,000 Swiss francs is also up for grabs.
 
“Over 10’000 tickets, along with more than 1’500 VIP tickets, have already been sold for the premiere City Event in Munich. The slope is in excellent condition following the pre-Christmas thaw and has been injected during this week’s cold period,” said Günter Hujara, FIS Chief Race Director for the men’s Alpine World Cup.

The event was designed in part to promote the 2011 FIS Alpine World Championships that will take place a month later only 60 miles away in Gramisch-Partenkirchen.

MEN
1. JANKA Carlo SUI
2. RAICH Benjamin AUT
3. SVINDAL Aksel Lund NOR
4. CUCHE Didier SUI
5. KOSTELIC Ivica CRO
6. LIGETY Ted USA
7. WALCHHOFER Michael AUT
8. HIRSCHER Marcel AUT
9. BAUMANN Romed AUT
10. MILLER Bode USA
11. GRANGE Jean-Baptiste FRA
12. LIZEROUX Julien FRA
13. JANSRUD Kjetil NOR
14. HERBST Reinfried AUT
15. HEEL Werner ITA
16. NEUREUTHER Felix * GER

*wild card

LADIES
1. VONN Lindsey USA
2. RIESCH Maria GER
3. MAZE Tina SLO
4. GOERGL Elisabeth AUT
5. PAERSON Anja SWE
6. MANCUSO Julia USA
7. SUTER Fabienne SUI
8. FISCHBACHER Andrea AUT
9. REBENSBURG Viktoria GER
10. HOELZL Kathrin GER
11. PIETILAE-H. Maria SWE
12. WORLEY Tessa FRA
13. KIRCHGASSER Michaela AUT
14. FENNINGER Anna AUT
15. ZAHROBSKA Sarka CZE
16. KAMER Nadja SUI

Prize Money
Minimum prize money per gender: 100’000 CHF
1. Place CHF 40’000 (4,2753 USD).- per gender
2. Place CHF 30’000.- per gender
3. Place CHF 20’000.- per gender
4. Place CHF 10’000.- per gender