JOs: Mitchell earns second gold with GS win

Welch Valley Minnesota‘s Nicholas Mitchell pulled in his second gold medal of the J3 Junior Olympics today (March 9) with a victory in the giant slalom at Golden Peak in Vail, Colo.

After winning Saturday’s downhill by almost a full second, Mitchell proved he can get it done on the tech side as well with both of today’s fastest times. He was .78 seconds up on his nearest rival after the first run, then took the second run by almost a half of a second to earn a total time of 1:30.13.

“I think it helped to have a day off because I got all my confidence back and got to train some gates and just got in the groove in GS,” Mitchell told the Vail Daily.

Sunday’s super G winner, Taos skier Nicolas Veth had the second fastest first-run time and held on for the third-fastest second-run time to claim today’s silver medal with a time of 1:31.39.

“Going from downhill and super-G changes the tempo from really long turns to short ones,” Veth said. “It was good to switch it up. I think some of my quickness came from yesterday’s training.”

Aspen’s Devon Cardamone took the last podium spot in third place, just eight hundredths of a second behind Veth after the two tied for the second fastest first run.

Zak Kjos of Apex Racing in Lino Lakes, Minnesota (bronze medalist in Sunday’s super G) just missed the podium in fourth place, .61 seconds behind Cardamone after turning it up on his second run with the second fastest time behind Mitchell.

All winners from this week’s races in Vail will qualify to participate in the Whistler Cup in mid-April. The international competition is revered as the most important race in North America for ski racers from ages 11-14.

The J3 Junior Olympics conclude tomorrow with men’s and women’s slalom races at Beaver Creek.

For more information, click here to go to the event’s website.

Image of Mitchell by Peter Alexander

Unofficial Results
  1  16 C5893078 Mitchell, Nicholas       WEV/95   46.15   43.98 1:30.13    0.00
  2  11 R5845292 Veth, Nicolas           TSAY/95   46.93   44.46 1:31.39   12.30
  3   4 R6017396 Cardamone, Devon         ASP/95   46.93   44.54 1:31.47   13.08
  4  10 C5919279 Kjos, Zak                APX/96   47.67   44.41 1:32.08   19.04
  5  29 X6176143 Travers, Dean            ASP/96   47.59   44.95 1:32.54   23.53
  6  33 R5812490 Leever, Alex            SSCV/95   47.51   45.14 1:32.65   24.60
  7  22 R5831086 Santaniello, Nick       SSCV/95   47.92   45.13 1:33.05   28.51
  8  15 R5825294 Fake, Hayden H           TEL/95   48.67   44.85 1:33.52   33.10
  9  17 R5922950 Barounos, Alex R         SSP/95   48.48   45.05 1:33.53   33.20
 10  18 C6285856 Nygren, Maxwell D        WEV/95   48.47   45.49 1:33.96   37.39
 11   3 R6080014 Lundin, Travis           ASP/96   48.71   45.50 1:34.21   39.84
 12  21 R5939079 Bailey, Nick             TBK/95   49.04   45.29 1:34.33   41.01
 13  13 C6003206 Rasmussen, Kyle          ASB/95   48.86   45.54 1:34.40   41.69
 14  12 C6068332 Bartley, Nathan          LAX/96   48.73   45.71 1:34.44   42.08
 15   9 C5933247 Robillard, Griffin       GIL/95   48.08   46.58 1:34.66   44.23
16   8 C6010268 Koseck, Kyle             BYN/95   49.36   45.32 1:34.68   44.42
 17   6 R6129316 Throm, Benjamin          ASP/96   49.20   45.55 1:34.75   45.11
 18  36 R6013098 Hancock, Andrew          ASP/96   49.24   45.59 1:34.83   45.89
 19  19 R6070718 Wada, Anthony            LRC/96   49.61   45.31 1:34.92   46.77
 20  28 C5937032 Zucco, Michael           HHL/95   48.95   46.16 1:35.11   48.62
 21  43 R5924139 Reznick, Walker          FLA/95   49.16   46.00 1:35.16   49.11
 22  14 C5896584 Post, Jack E             BKH/95   49.47   45.70 1:35.17   49.21
 23  55 C6064760 Morrison, Bradford       BKH/95   49.51   45.91 1:35.42   51.65
 24   1 R5872544 Bender, Jake             WPK/95   50.22   45.34 1:35.56   53.02
 25  31 R5953633 Kirwood, Clayton        SSCV/96   49.41   46.51 1:35.92   56.53
 26  24 C6095830 Hornburg, Kalvis         NSA/95   49.40   46.66 1:36.06   57.90
 27  46 R6046536 Woodrow, Henry           ASP/96   49.79   46.61 1:36.40   61.22
 28  50 R5845797 Schult, Zachary          WPK/95   49.89   46.55 1:36.44   61.61
 29  39 C6166961 Lundteigen, Gunnar       BYN/96   49.60   47.15 1:36.75   64.64
 30  56 C6156947 Damberg, Niklas E        AFT/96   50.67   46.60 1:37.27   69.71
 31  64 R6085302 Szwebel, Florian         WPK/96   50.49   46.83 1:37.32   70.20
 32  42 C6135263 Struyk, Griffin D        APX/95   50.20   47.29 1:37.49   71.86
 33  37 C6002554 Waning, Thomas           WIN/95   50.58   47.53 1:38.11   77.91
 34  61 R6027015 Baker, Xon               ASP/96   50.56   47.77 1:38.33   80.06
 35  44 R6129829 Weingartner, Tommy 
     TSAY/95   51.26   47.25 1:38.51   81.82
 36  27 R6111405 Haderle, Brannen         ASP/95   52.81   46.38 1:39.19   88.46
 37  41 C6112866 Pucci, A J               SMP/95   51.00   48.21 1:39.21   88.65
 38  60 C6004980 Zimmer, Anders N         DUL/95   51.57   47.85 1:39.42   90.70
 39  32 C6177224 Jaekels, John C          HHL/95   53.07   46.41 1:39.48   91.29
 40  54 R6040596 Garden, Bennett          ELD/95   51.37   48.21 1:39.58   92.27
 41  48 C6166219 Derocher, Alex           DUL/95   51.60   48.00 1:39.60   92.46
 42  65 C6055438 Hickok, Keller R         BKH/95   50.54   49.17 1:39.71   93.54
 43  70 R5802921 Hooper-gray, Solon       CBT/96   51.83   47.94 1:39.77   94.12
 44  73 R6189708 Calarco, Matthew         LRC/96   52.29   47.49 1:39.78   94.22
 45  47 C5818901 Richter, Jake            SWA/95   51.03   48.79 1:39.82   94.61
 46  80 R5954466 Lazar, Drew              TBK/96   51.33   48.58 1:39.91   95.49
 47  57 R5992847 Deininger, Nicholas      FLA/95   51.45   48.52 1:39.97   96.07
 48  62 R6003990 Gruber, Patrick          TBK/96   52.77   47.63 1:40.40  100.27
 49  89 X6103253 Wiess, Liam              PUR/96   52.06   48.45 1:40.51  101.35
 50  69 R6085880 Kidd, David              SSP/96   51.83   48.88 1:40.71  103.30
 51  86 C6219738 Crary, Will              AFT/95   52.00   48.82 1:40.82  104.37
 52  87 R5941513 Foulk, Andreas           SSP/95   52.69   48.40 1:41.09  107.01
 53  76 R5817770 Bowman, Nate             SSP/96   52.20   48.97 1:41.17  107.79
 54  85 R6065106 Maloney, Henry           SUM/96   52.07   49.16 1:41.23  108.38
 55  78 C6101851 Strike, Cameron          WEV/95   53.13   48.85 1:41.98  115.70
 56  90 C6021554 McIntosh, Alex           PIN/95   52.48   49.57 1:42.05  116.38
 57  74 C6074173 Gottlieb, Jeremy         MRT/96   52.48   49.65 1:42.13  117.16
58  38 R6086813 Davis, Quin             SSCV/96   48.83   54.41 1:43.24  128.00
 59   5 R5929013 Romano, Nicholas        SSCV/95   57.60   45.74 1:43.34  128.98
 60  83 C6001762 Dries, Cade              ASB/95   53.86   49.52 1:43.38  129.37
 61  71 R5775770 Stanley, Michael         TBK/95   53.51   49.90 1:43.41  129.66
 62  79 C6183016 Larson, Dylan            GLS/96   53.19   50.24 1:43.43  129.86
 63  88 R5971742 Girten, Alec             TBK/95   53.94   49.65 1:43.59  131.42
 64  63 C5882469 Arneson, Tommy R         MRT/96   51.66   52.05 1:43.71  132.59
 65  75 R5924097 Aubel, Kevan            SSCV/95   53.93   50.22 1:44.15  136.89
 66  51 C6101711 Hanson, Sean             AFT/95   52.63   51.89 1:44.52  140.50
 67  82 C6120703 Cunningham, David        NSA/95   56.27   50.43 1:46.70  161.78
 68  49 R6001291 Lawler, Rick             TBK/95   49.82 1:01.48 1:51.30  206.70
 69   7 C5993373 Olin, Teagan             AFT/95   51.95 1:08.73 2:00.68  298.28
 70  77 C5818885 Pierce, Spencer          SWA/95 1:25.58   49.33 2:14.91  437.22
 
DID NOT START 1st RUN
     52 C6264790 Cerny, Mack              ASB/96
 
DID NOT FINISH 1st RUN
     92 R6108211 Lemley, Nicolas          TSA/96
     72 C6176713 Vogel, Colin S           GLS/96
     67 C6261267 Albrecht, Cole           BKH/96
     59 R5920020 Morrison, Christopher    WPK/96
     58 C6044556 Callahan, Ryan           PIN/95
     53 R5851761 Sides, Graham            SFE/95
     45 C6224134 Erhart, Brian            BYN/95
     40 R5942610 De Jong, Devin           SSP/96
     35 C6131536 Ankeny, Teddy            BKH/96
     26 C6068068 Leinfelder, Samuel       LAX/95
     23 C6008593 Croasdale, Connor        BKH/95
     20 C6123046 Bourdo, Jack             ASB/95
 
DISQUALIFIED 1st RUN
 
DID NOT START 2nd RUN
     30 C6109318 Nguyen, Vy               BKH/96
 
DID NOT FINISH 2nd RUN
     91 C6156921 Charlton, William M      AFT/95
     68 C5939764 Janssen, Taylor          WIN/95
     66 C6192678 Borash, Matthew          DUL/96
     34 R6076228 Millard, Keegan          SSP/95
     25 R5911243 Stuercke, Hunter         LRC/95