Schoerghofer takes first career World Cup in Hinterstoder GS

Austrian Philipp Schoerghofer grabbed his first career World Cup win today (Feb. 6), taking a giant slalom on home snow in Hinterstoder, Austria by 0.17 seconds.

Schoerghofer earned the win by staying consistent through both runs. In the No. 8 bib, he took the second-fastest, first-run time then held on for the win as the second to last man down a chewed up course with a combined time of two minutes, 46.44 seconds.

First run leader, Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud finished second, only three hundredths of a second ahead of Swiss Carlo Janka in third.

It proved to be a tight race as the top 10 men were all within 0.67 seconds.

American Bode Miller, tied for 28th after he first run, had a fresh course for round 2 and cruised to the fastest second-run time (1:23.60), climbing to the ninth spot on the day to lead four U.S men into the points.

“That was inspiring skiing,” said U.S. head coach Sasha Rearick of Miller’s performance. “It was fun to see Bode on a turny course like that just chuck himself down the hill and ski aggressive. Bode is finding his gear and putting in the type of inspiring skiing which is fun for us to watch and for him to throw down. We’re looking forward to going to World Champs.”

Fellow American Ted Ligety, who won three consecutive World Cup GS races in December, finished 13th. Tommy Ford, who set a career high with an 11th-place result in yesterday’s super G, finished 18th while Warner Nickerson saw his second career World Cup scoring result in 26th.

Nolan Kasper, Tommy Biesemeyer and Tim Jitloff all failed to finish the first run to join a list of 15 total first run exits.

“Ted didn’t have the day he wanted by any means. He skied the top on the first run fantastic. The second run he wasn’t putting down the hill like he can,” said Rearick.”It was a great day for Tommy Ford with his first time in the GS points this year and Warner Nickerson also did a great job making the cut for the second time this season.”

Yesterday’s super G winner, Austrian Hanned Reichelt just missed the podium today in fourth place, 0.21 seconds off the pace.

Competition now shifts to Garmisch, Germany for the 2011 FIS World Championships.

The SCOOP
By Hank McKee

Men’s Giant Slalom, Hinterstoder, Austria, Feb. 6, 2011
Equipment
Skier, skis/boots/bindings
1 Schoerghofer, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
2 Jansrud, Head/Head/Head
3 Janka, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
4 Reichelt, Salomon/Salomon/Salomon
5 Berthod, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
6 Cuche, Head/Head/Head
7 Sandell, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
8 Svindal, Head/Head/Head
9 Miller, Head/Head/Head   
10 Kostelic, Fischer/Fischer/Fischer

Men’s World Cup giant slalom, Hinterstoder, Austria, Feb. 6, 2011. .. It is the 27th race held of the 39 on the men’s 2010-11 World Cup schedule. … One race (Soelden GS) was cancelled and one (Beaver Creek DH) is on hold. … It is the sixth of eight races on the GS schedule with one having been cancelled and two remaining. … It is the 13th Cup race held at least in part at Hinterstoder. …. It is the final race before the World Championship races, which do not count toward the World Cup.

It is the first career World Cup victory for Philipp Schoerghofer and just his second podium, the other coming in GS at Garmisch last March. … His next best finish of the season was seventh in GS at Adelboden Jan. 8.

It is the fifth career Cup podium for Kjetil Jansrud, all coming in GS. … He has yet to win a Cup race. … In his last four scored events he has three top four results (Kitzbuehel combined Jan. 23, Chamonix combined Jan. 30 and the 2nd at Hinterstoder).

It is the 18th career World Cup podium for Carlo Janka and fifth in GS. … It is his fourth podium of the season each coming in a different discipline.

It is the best GS placing for Bode Miller since finishing seventh at Whistler Feb. 23, 2008. … It is his sixth straight top 10 placing. … And matches his fifth best finish of the season in any discipline. … It is the 108th World Cup scoring result for Ted Ligety. … and 16th of the season. … It matches his 33rd best of 36 career GS scoring finishes. … It is a career best GS score for Tommy Ford and his fourth career scoring finish in all disciplines. … His two top 20 scores have come in the last two days. … It is the second career World Cup score for Warner Nickerson, both coming in GS and both this season.

Ivica Kostelic (10th in race) continues to the lead the World Cup 1249-725 over Didier Cuche (6th in race). … Aksel Lund Svindal (8th in race) sits third overall with 713pts. … Miller is the top U.S. skier overall in ninth place with 471pts. … Erik Guay is the top Canadian overall with 157pts. … No Canadians were entered in the race. … Ted Ligety leads the GS standings 323-297 over Svindal. … Cyprien Richard (20th in race) is third on the GS standings list with 253pts. … Jean-Philippe Roy leads the Canadians in 34th place and 24pts. … Austria leads the men’s Nations Cup standings 4314-3033 over Switzerland. … Italy is third at 2263pts. … The U.S. is eighth with 1161pts and Canada ninth with 888pts.

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Run 1	Run 2	Total Time	FIS Points
1	8	51007	SCHOERGHOFER Philipp	1983	AUT	1:21.49	1:24.95	2:46.44	0.00
2	3	421483	JANSRUD Kjetil	1985	NOR	1:21.14	1:25.47	2:46.61	0.89
3	1	511313	JANKA Carlo	1986	SUI	1:21.69	1:24.95	2:46.64	1.05
4	26	50742	REICHELT Hannes	1980	AUT	1:21.98	1:24.67	2:46.65	1.10
5	23	510997	BERTHOD Marc	1983	SUI	1:22.34	1:24.51	2:46.85	2.14
6	11	510030	CUCHE Didier	1974	SUI	1:22.21	1:24.70	2:46.91	2.46
7	37	180534	SANDELL Marcus	1987	FIN	1:22.73	1:24.19	2:46.92	2.51
8	5	421328	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	1982	NOR	1:21.78	1:25.19	2:46.97	2.77
9	31	532431	MILLER Bode	1977	USA	1:23.41	1:23.60	2:47.01	2.98
10	14	380260	KOSTELIC Ivica	1979	CRO	1:22.46	1:24.65	2:47.11	3.50
11	22	191746	DE TESSIERES Gauthier	1981	FRA	1:22.68	1:24.48	2:47.16	3.76
12	50	192653	FREY Thomas	1984	FRA	1:22.91	1:24.31	2:47.22	4.08
13	6	534562	LIGETY Ted	1984	USA	1:21.85	1:25.49	2:47.34	4.70
14	46	421669	HAUGEN Leif Kristian	1987	NOR	1:23.28	1:24.10	2:47.38	4.91
15	38	990048	BORSOTTI Giovanni	1990	ITA	1:23.41	1:24.03	2:47.44	5.23
16	19	511352	VILETTA Sandro	1986	SUI	1:22.04	1:25.41	2:47.45	5.28
17	13	51215	BAUMANN Romed	1986	AUT	1:23.22	1:24.31	2:47.53	5.70
18	32	531799	FORD Tommy	1989	USA	1:23.18	1:24.37	2:47.55	5.80
19	9	191750	FANARA Thomas	1981	FRA	1:21.96	1:25.77	2:47.73	6.74
20	24	420148	KARLSEN Truls Ove	1975	NOR	1:22.58	1:25.17	2:47.75	6.85
20	7	191423	RICHARD Cyprien	1979	FRA	1:22.37	1:25.38	2:47.75	6.85
22	18	150398	BANK Ondrej	1980	CZE	1:22.84	1:25.03	2:47.87	7.47
22	17	290693	PLONER Alexander	1978	ITA	1:23.12	1:24.75	2:47.87	7.47
24	34	194364	PINTURAULT Alexis	1991	FRA	1:22.68	1:25.53	2:48.21	9.25
25	20	192506	MISSILLIER Steve	1984	FRA	1:22.42	1:25.98	2:48.40	10.25
26	33	534038	NICKERSON Warner	1981	USA	1:23.19	1:25.54	2:48.73	11.97
27	12	50625	RAICH Benjamin	1978	AUT	1:21.74	1:27.51	2:49.25	14.69
28	4	292000	BLARDONE Massimiliano	1979	ITA	1:23.42	1:29.06	2:52.48	31.57
29	27	201702	NEUREUTHER Felix	1984	GER	1:23.40	1:30.37	2:53.77	38.31
Disqualified 1st run
	54	53985	MATHIS Marcel	1991	AUT
	36	292967	EISATH Florian	1984	ITA
Did not start 1st run
	30	50600	GOERGL Stephan	1978	AUT
Did not qualify 1st run
	67	192504	MERMILLOD BLONDIN Thomas	1984	FRA
	66	294911	PATSCHEIDER Hagen	1988	ITA
	62	481006	ZUEV Stepan	1988	RUS
	57	511383	FEUZ Beat	1987	SUI
	56	990081	CASSE Mattia	1990	ITA
	55	910004	DEFLORIAN Mirko	1980	MDA
	52	54031	LEITINGER Roland	1991	AUT
	51	560406	GORZA Ales	1980	SLO
	49	561032	JAZBEC Janez	1984	SLO
	48	561117	KUERNER Miha	1987	SLO
	47	500933	OLSSON Jon	1982	SWE
	45	53980	KRIECHMAYR Vincent	1991	AUT
	42	421650	BJERKESTRAND Iver	1987	NOR
	40	421859	NILSEN Markus	1989	NOR
	39	202462	DOPFER Fritz	1987	GER
	35	51159	NOESIG Christoph	1985	AUT
	28	292056	GUFLER Michael	1979	ITA
	21	510993	ALBRECHT Daniel	1983	SUI
	15	292491	MOELGG Manfred	1982	ITA
Did not finish 2nd run
	10	292120	SIMONCELLI Davide	1979	ITA
Did not finish 1st run
	65	193672	BLANC Samy	1988	FRA
	64	410266	GRIFFIN Benjamin	1986	NZE
	63	511513	CAVIEZEL Mauro	1988	SUI
	61	532138	KASPER Nolan	1989	USA
	60	501017	MYHRER Andre	1983	SWE
	59	531452	BIESEMEYER Thomas	1989	USA
	58	150644	KRYZL Krystof	1986	CZE
	53	511718	PLEISCH Manuel	1990	SUI
	44	53853	SIEBER Bjoern	1989	AUT
	43	534959	JITLOFF Tim	1985	USA
	41	511634	SPESCHA Christian	1989	SUI
	29	180251	PALANDER Kalle	1977	FIN
	25	501324	OLSSON Matts	1988	SWE
	16	192665	GRANGE Jean-Baptiste	1984	FRA
	2	53831	HIRSCHER Marcel	1989	AUT