Junior Worlds: Italians control men's downhill

Mar 04, 2009

The Italians came to play as the men’s portion of the FIS World Alpine Junior Ski Championships finally got underway at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany with the downhill held over from its scheduled start yesterday.The Italians came to play as the men’s portion of the FIS World Alpine Junior Ski Championships finally got underway at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany with the downhill held over from its scheduled start yesterday.

Andy Plank, son of racing legend Herbert Plank, covered the Kandahar course in 1:39.18 to nip his teammate Dominik Paris by .12 of a second.

The bronze medal went to Finland’s Andreas Romar, the first ever Finnish medal at World Juniors in downhill.

The North Americans had a good showing, but not as strong as had been hoped for. Training run winning Wiley Maple finished sixth with the only other top 10 coming from Canadian Dustin Cook in ninth.

Canadian Kelby Halbert was 17th, teammate Erik Read 26th and the second U.S. skier was Colby Granstrom in 27th. Tommy Ford was 32nd. Michael Mackie 33rd.

After a weather delay Tuesday when overnight rain pelted the course and created a thick fog, the scheduled has back-logged and organizers were attempting to run both the men’s downhill and super G plus a women’s super G relocated to the GS hill.

“I didn’t expect to beat Dominik Paris today and win the title,” Plank said. “It’s a huge success for me and I’m pretty excited to have a chance to compete in my first World Cup race next week at Are.”

As a gold medal winner, Plank is an automatic qualifier for World Cup finals.

Plank joined his father on the list of World Junior downhill champions, though neither of them realized Dad had won the crown.

“I completely forgot I won that title when I was much younger,” said the senior Plank, Olympic bronze medalist Herbert. “I do remember that I crashed in both technical events after clocking the fastest intermediate times in the second runs, but not that I did so well in the downhill.”

Paris said he was happy with the silver. “Andy just skied a little better than me,” he said. “It’s nice to get a medal. The most important thing is that Italy got the gold.”

Rank Bib FIS Code Name Year Nation Total Time FIS Points
 1  14  291034 PLANK Andy  1989  ITA   1:39.06  14.65
 2  2  291459 PARIS Dominik  1989  ITA   1:39.18  16.25
 3  23  180570 ROMAR Andreas  1989  FIN   1:39.32  18.11
 4  18  510883 GERBER Sepp  1989  SUI   1:39.43  19.58
 5  10  53853 SIEBER Bjoern  1989  AUT   1:39.76  23.98
 6  29  930024 MAPLE Wiley  1990  USA   1:39.92  26.11
 7  3  53817 FRANZ Max  1989  AUT   1:40.01  27.31
 8  20  194052 DUNAND Arnaud  1990  FRA   1:40.12  28.77
 9  34  100558 COOK Dustin  1989  CAN   1:40.18  29.57
 10  9  200379 SANDER Andreas  1989  GER   1:40.20  29.84
 11  8  53837 KRAMER Manuel  1989  AUT   1:40.21  29.97
 11  7  53902 MAYER Matthias  1990  AUT   1:40.21  29.97
 13  19  193901 DEVOUASSOUX Jonas  1989  FRA   1:40.33  31.57
 13  11  53922 WIESER Manuel  1990  AUT   1:40.33  31.57
 15  15  421954 LYSDAHL Espen  1990  NOR   1:40.40  32.51
 16  26  53898 KOENIG Thomas  1990  AUT   1:40.42  32.77
 17  40  103656 HALBERT Kelby  1990  CAN   1:40.44  33.04
 18  28  194364 PINTURAULT Alexis  1991  FRA   1:40.56  34.64
 19  16  194212 THOULE Nicolas  1990  FRA   1:40.64  35.70
 20  6  421871 SANDVIK Eian  1989  NOR   1:40.74  37.04
 21  17  511718 PLEISCH Manuel  1990  SUI   1:40.80  37.84
 22  1  990081 CASSE Mattia  1990  ITA   1:40.89  39.04
 23  58  990048 BORSOTTI Giovanni  1990  ITA   1:40.90  39.17
 24  13  193986 PLACE Francois  1989  FRA   1:40.97  40.10
 25  12  561216 KLINE Bostjan  1991  SLO   1:41.02  40.77
 26  43  103729 READ Erik  1991  CAN   1:41.04  41.03
 27  38  930105 GRANSTROM Colby  1990  USA   1:41.05  41.17
 28  50  690413 FANTINO Antonio  1991  ITA   1:41.13  42.23
 29  27  511103 HARI Mario  1989  SUI   1:41.18  42.90
 30  36  561197 OGORELC Blaz  1990  SLO   1:41.29  44.37
 31  30  194495 FAIVRE Mathieu  1992  FRA   1:41.32  44.77
 32  46  531799 FORD Tommy  1989  USA   1:41.41  45.96
 33  51  100615 MACKIE Michael  1989  CAN   1:41.58  48.23
 34  54  202424 FERSTL Christian  1992  GER   1:41.67  49.43
 35  56  501384 LINDGREN Tim  1989  SWE   1:41.89  52.36
 36  45  421840 HAUG Andreas Willumsen  1989  NOR   1:42.03  54.23
 37  55  501401 SAXVALL Per  1989  SWE   1:42.16  55.96
 38  32  481199 DANILOCHKIN Yuri  1991  RUS   1:42.22  56.76
 39  47  430472 KLUSAK Michal  1990  POL   1:42.23  56.89
 40  49  511753 ANTHAMATTEN Gabriel  1991  SUI   1:42.46  59.96
 41  41  491356 CARRERAS Pol  1990  SPA   1:42.65  62.49
 42  72  481185 VASILIEV Alexandr  1989  RUS   1:43.02  67.42
 43  66  501392 OESTER Carl-Filip  1989  SWE   1:43.17  69.42
 44  69  700830 ZAMPA Adam  1990  SVK   1:43.28  70.88
 45  78  481103 ANDRIENKO Aleksandr  1990  RUS   1:43.29  71.02
 46  39  92562 PRISADOV Stefan  1990  BUL   1:43.30  71.15
 47  62  934502 ANKENY Michael  1991  USA   1:43.38  72.22
 48  76  180631 PENTTINEN Juho-Pekka  1991  FIN   1:43.39  72.35
 49  65  481148 MAITAKOV Sergei  1990  RUS   1:43.51  73.95
 50  73  180627 MALMSTROM Victor  1991  FIN   1:43.52  74.08
 51  59  501557 PIETILAE HOLMNER Johan  1991  SWE   1:43.53  74.21
 52  70  180567 RASANEN Joonas  1989  FIN   1:43.77  77.41
 53  63  180666 TORSTI Samu  1991  FIN   1:43.80  77.81
 54  80  20328 RUIZ ANTUNA Nil  1991  AND   1:43.85  78.48
 54  52  501380 LARSSON Anton  1989  SWE   1:43.85  78.48
 56  60  350087 KINDLE Nicola  1991  LIE   1:43.90  79.14
 57  42  250267 SIGURGEIRSSON Stefan Jon  1989  ISL   1:44.10  81.81
 58  44  92534 CHONGAROV Nikola  1989  BUL   1:44.14  82.34
 59  75  350089 SCHAEFER Nicolas  1991  LIE   1:44.30  84.47
 60  71  180602 LESKINEN Roope  1990  FIN   1:44.85  91.80
 61  61  20324 OLIVERAS Marc  1991  AND   1:45.05  94.47
 62  77  250292 HALLDORSSON Sigurgeir  1991  ISL   1:45.10  95.13
 63  85  60198 VAN DEN BROECKE Robin  1992  BEL   1:45.96  106.59
 64  64  491395 SALARICH Xavier  1990  SPA   1:46.44  112.99
 65  68  150801 GARDAVSKY Jan  1989  CZE   1:47.12  122.05
 66  84  60185 VAN DEN BROECKE Nills  1991  BEL   1:47.46  126.58
 67  82  550044 MARKSS Svens  1991  LAT   1:48.78  144.17
 68  83  92575 MUTAVCHIEV Kostadin  1991  BUL   1:49.85  158.43
Disqualified 1st run
   79  550045 GRIGORJEVS Jurgis  1991  LAT     
   57  150878 HOVORAK Martin  1990  CZE     
   53  150823 KOPRIVA Jakub  1989  CZE     
   21  531452 BIESEMEYER Thomas  1989  USA     
Did not finish 1st run
   81  92638 VARBANOV Stoyan  1993  BUL     
   74  150852 WALIGORA Michael  1990  CZE     
   67  103617 ROUTHIER Mathieu  1990  CAN     
   48  501458 LINDH Calle  1990  SWE     
   37  103752 TROW Andy  1991  CAN     
   35  561161 JAZBEC Patrick  1989  SLO     
   33  561191 GASPERIN Timi  1990  SLO     
   31  990116 DE ALIPRANDINI Luca  1990  ITA     
   25  930107 GREGORAK Will  1990  USA     
   24  220874 BALDWIN Thomas  1990  GBR     
   22  92570 GEORGIEV Svetoslav  1991  BUL     
   5  511634 SPESCHA Christian  1989  SUI     
   4  511682 FRAVI Jonas  1990  SUI     

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