Topic: Carlo Janka

Austria season a near miss, not failure says Raich

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 ...

Janka takes downhill to claim World Cup ski lead

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 ...

Janka claims giant slalom crown as Miller bombs

Switzerland's Carlo Janka on Tuesday added the Olympic giant slalom crown to his world title on a day when American Bode Miller failed in his bid to set Games history.Janka, who led after the first leg, clocked a combined total of 2min ...

Janka in giant slalom pole as Miller bombs

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, ...

Hirscher leads Austria to Val d'Isere cleansweep

Hirscher's maiden win on the World Cup circuit followed that of team-mates Benjamin Raich and Michael Walchhofer in the super-combined and super-G also held on the Face de Bellevarde piste on Friday and Saturday respectively.The performance by the Austrian team dispelled worries ...

Walchhofer wins super-G at Alpine ski World Cup

Austria continued their domination of the World Cup events here when Michael Walchhofer overcame poor weather conditions to claim victory in the super-G on Saturday.Veteran Walchhofer, who was following up his countryman Benjamin Raich's win on Friday, clocked 1min 20.78sec down the ...

Raich stops Janka run in super-combined

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Experienced Austrian Benjamin Raich stopped the stunning run of Swiss sensation Carlo Janka by coolly winning a World Cup super-combined event on Friday.Raich, who was in fourth position after the super-G section, held his nerve down the ...

Austria strike back with super-combined treble

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Austria, often outclassed by Alpine rivals Switzerland since the northern winter began, struck back by placing three men on the podium of a World Cup super-combined event on Friday.The traditionally dominant nation had been struggling lately to ...

Raich wins super-combined skiing, Janka bombs

Benjamin Raich struck a blow back for Austria in winning the World Cup super-combined event here on Friday, his 35th victory on the international ski circuit.All the talk before this three-day event, which also sees the racers competing in the super-G on ...
Swiss tyro Carlo Janka returns here for a three-day World Cup event starting Friday in the best form of his life and onto an unforgiving slope which he has admitted to relishing.The 23-year-old Janka became the first man since 2007 to win ...
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