Close Wengen training goes to Cuche
Wengen is a Swiss venue and a charter race of the World Cup, so it was fitting Swiss veteran Didier Cuche should win the first training run Tuesday (Jan. 12). The Swiss posted two of the podium placings and four of the top 10 in the warm-up for a combined on Friday and the classic downhill Saturday as Carlo Janka was third, Didier Defago the winner at Wengen last season, was sixth and Tobias Gruenenfelder was ninth, all within .61 of a second from the winning pace. In addition Liechtenstein’s Marco Buechel, for all practical purposes a member of the Swiss squad, was eighth.
The Italians got two of the top five with Werner Heel in second by less than a tenth of a second and Peter Fill is fifth, just .32 out.
That didn’t leave a lot of room for the other nations to squeeze in, but Georg Streitberger tied for third for Austria, Andrej Sporn tallied seventh in a Slovene uniform, and Aksel Lund Svindal got tenth for Norway.
It wasn’t a bad day for the Americans: Bode Miller, Marco Sullivan and Steven Nyman finished 12-13-14 with Andrew Weibrecht adding 23rd place.
The Canadians, though, were all well back. Erik Guay led the squad in 30th.
Wengen will also host a World Cup slalom Sunday.
Photo of Wengen’s unique course by GEPA.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS – FIRST TRAINING |
Rank | Bib | FIS Code | Name | Year | Nation | Total Time | |
1 | 16 | 510030 | CUCHE Didier | 1974 | SUI | 2:33.51 | |
2 | 9 | 292514 | HEEL Werner | 1982 | ITA | 2:33.60 | |
3 | 15 | 511313 | JANKA Carlo | 1986 | SUI | 2:33.79 | |
3 | 5 | 50858 | STREITBERGER Georg | 1981 | AUT | 2:33.79 | |
5 | 30 | 292455 | FILL Peter | 1982 | ITA | 2:33.83 | |
6 | 14 | 510727 | DEFAGO Didier | 1977 | SUI | 2:33.86 | |
7 | 37 | 560447 | SPORN Andrej | 1981 | SLO | 2:33.90 | |
8 | 8 | 350032 | BUECHEL Marco | 1971 | LIE | 2:34.01 | |
9 | 3 | 510747 | GRUENENFELDER Tobias | 1977 | SUI | 2:34.12 | |
10 | 11 | 421328 | SVINDAL Aksel Lund | 1982 | NOR | 2:34.70 | |
11 | 26 | 290998 | STAUDACHER Patrick | 1980 | ITA | 2:34.89 | |
12 | 22 | 532431 | MILLER Bode | 1977 | USA | 2:34.91 | |
13 | 1 | 533131 | SULLIVAN Marco | 1980 | USA | 2:35.11 | |
14 | 4 | 533866 | NYMAN Steven | 1982 | USA | 2:35.19 | |
15 | 44 | 292291 | THANEI Stefan | 1981 | ITA | 2:35.27 | |
16 | 62 | 380292 | ZRNCIC-DIM Natko | 1986 | CRO | 2:35.30 | |
17 | 29 | 51005 | SCHEIBER Mario | 1983 | AUT | 2:35.43 | |
18 | 27 | 511139 | KUENG Patrick | 1984 | SUI | 2:35.45 | |
19 | 7 | 501076 | OLSSON Hans | 1984 | SWE | 2:35.56 | |
20 | 33 | 380260 | KOSTELIC Ivica | 1979 | CRO | 2:35.62 | |
21 | 53 | 511039 | KREUZER Ralf | 1983 | SUI | 2:35.64 | |
22 | 25 | 191740 | CLAREY Johan | 1981 | FRA | 2:35.66 | |
23 | 24 | 530939 | WEIBRECHT Andrew | 1986 | USA | 2:35.72 | |
24 | 28 | 191964 | POISSON David | 1982 | FRA | 2:35.86 | |
25 | 19 | 293006 | INNERHOFER Christof | 1984 | ITA | 2:35.95 | |
26 | 21 | 500150 | JAERBYN Patrik | 1969 | SWE | 2:35.96 | |
27 | 43 | 50451 | GRUBER Christoph | 1976 | AUT | 2:35.99 | |
28 | 39 | 50833 | GRUGGER Hans | 1981 | AUT | 2:36.17 | |
29 | 17 | 560332 | JERMAN Andrej | 1978 | SLO | 2:36.32 | |
30 | 6 | 102263 | GUAY Erik | 1981 | CAN | 2:36.49 | |
31 | 45 | 191591 | BERTRAND Yannick | 1980 | FRA | 2:36.61 | |
32 | 23 | 192746 | THEAUX Adrien | 1984 | FRA | 2:36.65 | |
33 | 18 | 510767 | HOFFMANN Ambrosi | 1977 | SUI | 2:36.92 | |
34 | 10 | 102899 | OSBORNE-PARADIS Manuel | 1984 | CAN | 2:36.97 | |
35 | 41 | 201606 | KEPPLER Stephan | 1983 | GER | 2:37.07 | |
36 | 20 | 51215 | BAUMANN Romed | 1986 | AUT | 2:37.09 | |
37 | 61 | 201987 | STRODL Andreas | 1987 | GER | 2:37.39 | |
38 | 49 | 192932 | FAYED Guillermo | 1985 | FRA | 2:37.47 | |
39 | 66 | 561085 | KRIZAJ Andrej | 1986 | SLO | 2:37.82 | |
39 | 54 | 51327 | PUCHNER Joachim | 1987 | AUT | 2:37.82 | |
41 | 38 | 532490 | MACARTNEY Scott | 1978 | USA | 2:38.14 | |
42 | 50 | 291459 | PARIS Dominik | 1989 | ITA | 2:38.23 | |
43 | 35 | 534562 | LIGETY Ted | 1984 | USA | 2:38.27 | |
44 | 56 | 421483 | JANSRUD Kjetil | 1985 | NOR | 2:38.28 | |
44 | 46 | 561087 | MARKIC Gasper | 1986 | SLO | 2:38.28 | |
46 | 57 | 990081 | CASSE Mattia | 1990 | ITA | 2:38.51 | |
47 | 47 | 561067 | PERKO Rok | 1985 | SLO | 2:38.62 | |
48 | 40 | 102271 | HUDEC Jan | 1981 | CAN | 2:38.85 | |
49 | 70 | 421400 | MYHRE Lars Elton | 1984 | NOR | 2:39.05 | |
50 | 32 | 50625 | RAICH Benjamin | 1978 | AUT | 2:39.25 | |
51 | 31 | 510890 | ZURBRIGGEN Silvan | 1981 | SUI | 2:39.33 | |
52 | 63 | 511383 | FEUZ Beat | 1987 | SUI | 2:39.71 | |
53 | 73 | 501026 | RAINER Niklas | 1983 | SWE | 2:39.83 | |
54 | 67 | 530874 | GANONG Travis | 1988 | USA | 2:40.27 | |
55 | 60 | 103090 | HELIE Louis-Pierre | 1986 | CAN | 2:40.65 | |
56 | 52 | 293550 | MARSAGLIA Matteo | 1985 | ITA | 2:40.72 | |
57 | 74 | 292831 | PIERUZ Aronne | 1983 | ITA | 2:40.75 | |
58 | 42 | 534939 | FISHER Erik | 1985 | USA | 2:40.94 | |
59 | 69 | 103375 | NELLA Tyler | 1988 | CAN | 2:40.99 | |
60 | 80 | 380291 | RATKIC Ivan | 1986 | CRO | 2:41.13 | |
61 | 51 | 150421 | ZAHROBSKY Petr | 1980 | CZE | 2:41.52 | |
62 | 64 | 150398 | BANK Ondrej | 1980 | CZE | 2:41.66 | |
63 | 55 | 201900 | WAGNER Hannes | 1986 | GER | 2:41.82 | |
64 | 85 | 102403 | SEMPLE Ryan | 1982 | CAN | 2:41.90 | |
65 | 71 | 191778 | PICHOT Sebastien | 1981 | FRA | 2:41.98 | |
66 | 68 | 511352 | VILETTA Sandro | 1986 | SUI | 2:42.30 | |
67 | 36 | 292491 | MOELGG Manfred | 1982 | ITA | 2:43.02 | |
68 | 83 | 20174 | VIDOSA Roger | 1984 | AND | 2:43.22 | |
69 | 77 | 534959 | JITLOFF Tim | 1985 | USA | 2:43.41 | |
70 | 76 | 150644 | KRYZL Krystof | 1986 | CZE | 2:43.89 | |
71 | 86 | 60159 | VAN BUYNDER Frederik | 1988 | BEL | 2:44.35 | |
72 | 75 | 30149 | SIMARI BIRKNER Cristian Javier | 1980 | ARG | 2:44.45 | |
73 | 72 | 192504 | MERMILLOD BLONDIN Thomas | 1984 | FRA | 2:45.92 | |
74 | 34 | 191459 | LIZEROUX Julien | 1979 | FRA | 2:46.15 | |
75 | 82 | 700724 | BABUSIAK Jaroslav | 1984 | SVK | 2:47.37 | |
76 | 81 | 150594 | TREJBAL Filip | 1985 | CZE | 2:49.36 | |
77 | 84 | 430429 | BYDLINSKI Maciej | 1988 | POL | 2:49.39 | |
78 | 79 | 480736 | HOROSHILOV Alexandr | 1984 | RUS | 6:32.17 | |
79 | 59 | 51332 | SCHEIBER Florian | 1987 | AUT | 7:23.40 | |
80 | 13 | 50753 | KROELL Klaus | 1980 | AUT | 8:31.64 | |
Did not start 1st run | |||||||
48 | 201542 | STRODL Peter | 1982 | GER | |||
2 | 102961 | DIXON Robbie | 1985 | CAN | |||
Did not finish 1st run | |||||||
78 | 500656 | LARSSON Markus | 1979 | SWE | |||
65 | 40171 | BRANCH Craig | 1977 | AUS | |||
58 | 294911 | PATSCHEIDER Hagen | 1988 | ITA | |||
12 | 50041 | WALCHHOFER Michael | 1975 | AUT |