Topic: Germany

SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won an Alpine ski giant slalom race on Friday to take the World Cup lead in the discipline.Rebensburg mastered the gates of the Black Course in a combined time of two minutes 15.22 ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - France's Jean-Baptiste Grange won the men's slalom at the Alpine ski world championships on Sunday.Sweden's Jens Byggmark won the silver medal and Italy's Manfred Moelgg the bronze.92926911&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Sports News

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - France won the team event at the alpine skiing world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Wednesday.Austria won the silver medal and Sweden the bronze.(Reporting by Manuele Lang; Editing by James Illingworth)92558848&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Sports News

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men's super combined at the world skiing championships on Monday.Christof Innerhofer of Italy was second and compatriot Peter Fill was third.(Editing by Justin Palmer)92317099&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn and her great rival Maria Riesch have won the last 15 competitive downhill races between them but their dominance could end at the world championships on Sunday.The American and the German have had fitness problems in ...

Vonn will be one of four American racers who won Olympic golds at the 2010 Vancouver Games turning out for a season bissected by the February 8-20 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.Also taking to the slopes will be Julia Mancuso, Bode ...

Vonn will be one of four American racers who won Olympic golds at the 2010 Vancouver Games turning out for a season bissected by the February 8-20 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.Also taking to the slopes will be Julia Mancuso, Bode ...

Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Germany's Martin Braxenthaler ...

GARMISCH-PARTERNKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn, on the brink of clinching her third successive overall World Cup title, crashed in the first leg of the season's final giant slalom on Thursday.Vonn, who has already won the season's downhill and super-G titles, could ...

Germany's Maria Riesch wins slalom for 2nd Olympic gold medal; Vonn skis out in 1st run Maria Riesch of Germany won the slalom title for her second gold medal of the Winter Olympics on Friday, as Lindsey Vonn skied out chasing her ...