Are: Italy edges Austria for team event win

Italy won three of four super G runs. Austria got two slalom wins and that was the difference of the final event of the 2009 World Cup season, a five country team event in Are, Sweden. A tie breaker gave Italy the win despite a 21-21 score.Italy won three of four super G runs. Austria got two slalom wins and that was the difference of the final event of the 2009 World Cup season, a five country team event in Are, Sweden. A tie breaker gave Italy the win despite a 21-21 score.

Switzerland was third with 23pts, Sweden had 26 and France 29.

The Italians started fast with the super G races getting the earlier starts.

Nadia Fanchini won the opener, by .23 over Andrea Fischbacher. Peter Fill took the second race over Didier Cuche by .40. Although France’s Fabienne Suter won the third race over Austria Elisabeth Goergl, Italian Daniela Merighetti was third. When Werner Heel beat Carlo Janka in the fourth race by .56, Italy looked unbeatable.

Kathrin Zettel, Austria, got the first slalom win over Sweden’s Therese Borssen by .81. But Andre Myhrer, Sweden, answered that with a huge 1.03 second win over Julien Lizeroux, France.

Sandrine Aubert, France, won over Frida Hansdotter, Sweden by .58, which left it up to Austria’s young Marcel Hirscher and he came through for a .78 win over Carlo Janka.

The final outcome did pad the Nations Cup scores minutely. Austria wins 10,740 over Switzerland’s 7,786. Italy, gaining 400 from the win, finished third at 6374. The final tally for the U.S. was fifth with 4,158. Canada finished eighth with 2554.