Topic: Benjamin Raich
Austria will be aiming for both their fifth medal of the world ski championships and to defend their crown on Wednesday when the team event takes place after a four-year hiatus.As golden-girl Elisabth Goergl has won both the women's super-G and downhill ...
Up and coming Marcel Hirscher claimed his maiden World Cup slalom win to hand Austria a welcome one-two on the punishing Bellevarde piste here Sunday.Hirscher was fourth in the first run won by Italy's Manfred Moelgg and produced a near flawless display ...
Switzerland's Carlo Janka took one step closer to the overall World Cup season's title on Friday by setting the fastest time on the first run of the men's giant slalom.The 23-year-old is battling Austria's Benjamin Raich for the Crystal Globe and is ...
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Austria have failed to win a downhill this season, came away from the Vancouver without a single medal in men's Alpine skiing yet could still end up with the overall world champion thanks to Benjamin Raich.Raich finished sixth ...
Switzerland's Carlo Janka won the men's World Cup finals downhill on Wednesday to take the lead in the overall standings in his ding dong battle for supremacy with Austria's Benjamin Raich.Mario Scheiber of Austria finished second in the downhill on the Kandahar ...
Giuliano Razzoli of Italy stormed to a convincing win in the Olympic slalom on Saturday as Austria's men's team were condemned to a medal-less Games for the first time in 74 years.Razzoli clocked a combined total of 1min 39.32sec over the two ...
American Bode Miller will not add a giant slalom podium to his three-medal Olympic haul after he crashed out on the first leg of the event on Tuesday, with Swiss all-rounder Carlo Janka in pole position.Janka, the defending world giant slalom champion, ...
Current World Cup leader Benjamin Raich of Austria feels ready to replicate the form at the Vancouver Olympics that saw him bag two gold medals in Turin four years ago."You never know but I'm in good shape and am looking forward to ...
Germany's Felix Neureuther notched up a timely maiden World Cup victory ahead of next month's Winter Olympics when he won the men's slalom race here on Sunday.Neureuther, a six-time World Cup podium finisher who had clocked the third-fastest time in the first ...
ALTA BADIA, Italy (Reuters) - Austria's Reinfried Herbst racked up his second World Cup slalom win in two races on the Gran Risa course on Monday to install himself as favorite for February's Vancouver Olympics.Compatriot Manfred Pranger led after the first run ...
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