Garmisch: Maier tops second training run

Jan 30, 2009

Hermann Maier led the men down Garmisch’s Kandahar 2 downhill track in the final training run before Saturday’s World Cup downhill, a scant .10 pf a second ahead of Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis. Marco Buechel of Leichtenstein was third .16 out and the winner of the opening training run, Didier Cuche, was fourth.Hermann Maier led the men down Garmisch’s Kandahar 2 downhill track in the final training run before Saturday’s World Cup downhill, a scant .10 pf a second ahead of Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis. Marco Buechel of Leichtenstein was third .16 out and the winner of the opening training run, Didier Cuche, was fourth.

Marco Sullivan in eighth led the U.S. skiers with Bode Miller 11th. Erik Fisher was 27th and Kevin Francis, the last skier to start the run in the 48th bib, placed 29th.

Behind Osborne-Paradis the Canadians also sported Erik Guay in seventh, John Kucera 18th and Jan Hudec 24th.

The men have at the track for real Saturday while the women will also race a super G Saturday.

Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Total Time
 1  20  50423 MAIER Hermann  1972  AUT   1:43.79
 2  7  102899 OSBORNE-PARADIS Manuel  1984  CAN   1:43.89
 3  12  350032 BUECHEL Marco  1971  LIE   1:43.95
 4  22  510030 CUCHE Didier  1974  SUI   1:44.18
 5  16  50041 WALCHHOFER Michael  1975  AUT   1:44.25
 6  17  102263 GUAY Erik  1981  CAN   1:44.30
 7  21  510727 DEFAGO Didier  1977  SUI   1:44.34
 8  8  533131 SULLIVAN Marco  1980  USA   1:44.36
 9  15  421328 SVINDAL Aksel Lund  1982  NOR   1:44.43
 10  14  532431 MILLER Bode  1977  USA   1:44.54
 11  9  292455 FILL Peter  1982  ITA   1:44.62
 12  10  293006 INNERHOFER Christof  1984  ITA   1:44.75
 13  42  510747 GRUENENFELDER Tobias  1977  SUI   1:44.82
 14  13  292514 HEEL Werner  1982  ITA   1:44.87
 15  18  50753 KROELL Klaus  1980  AUT   1:44.96
 16  25  50451 GRUBER Christoph  1976  AUT   1:44.98
 17  6  102873 KUCERA John  1984  CAN   1:45.00
 18  27  191591 BERTRAND Yannick  1980  FRA   1:45.03
 19  43  380292 ZRNCIC-DIM Natko  1986  CRO   1:45.31
 20  34  50919 STRUGER Peter  1982  AUT   1:45.46
 21  11  510767 HOFFMANN Ambrosi  1977  SUI   1:45.55
 22  2  102271 HUDEC Jan  1981  CAN   1:45.59
 23  1  191964 POISSON David  1982  FRA   1:45.69
 24  4  500150 JAERBYN Patrik  1969  SWE   1:45.73
 25  30  534939 FISHER Erik  1985  USA   1:45.78
 26  38  561067 PERKO Rok  1985  SLO   1:45.84
 27  48  533842 FRANCIS Kevin  1982  USA   1:46.05
 28  32  201606 KEPPLER Stephan  1983  GER   1:46.06
 29  45  201542 STRODL Peter  1982  GER   1:46.12
 30  46  530939 WEIBRECHT Andrew  1986  USA   1:46.16
 31  23  51215 BAUMANN Romed  1986  AUT   1:46.19
 32  3  292291 THANEI Stefan  1981  ITA   1:46.25
 33  29  501076 OLSSON Hans  1984  SWE   1:46.43
 34  35  192932 FAYED Guillermo  1985  FRA   1:46.80
 35  5  192746 THEAUX Adrien  1984  FRA   1:47.20
 36  36  201811 STECHERT Tobias  1985  GER   1:47.63
 37  37  50831 GRAGGABER Thomas  1981  AUT   1:48.16
 38  40  990081 CASSE Mattia  1990  ITA   4:39.28

Did not start 1st run: WAGNER Hannes (GER)

Did not finish 1st run: STRODL Andreas (GER), SPORN Andrej (SLO), FRIEDMAN Bryon (USA)

Disqualified 1st run: DIXON Robbie (CAN), ALSTER Christoph (AUT), ZURBRIGGEN Silvan (SUI), DALCIN Pierre-Emmanuel (FRA), STREITBERGER Georg (AUT), NYMAN Steven (USA), JERMAN Andrej (SLO)


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