Topic: Maria Riesch
Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Maria Riesch of Germany were crowned men's and women's World Cup overall champions Saturday as controversy shrouded the final event of the alpine ski season.Kostelic, the brother of retired four-time Olympic champion Janica, finished on 1356 points with ...
American Lindsey Vonn and German rival Maria Riesch are set to duel for alpine skiing's prestigious overall World Cup crown in the final race of the season, a giant slalom, on Saturday.Three-time World Cup champion Vonn has made a late charge in ...
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 ...
Lindsey Vonn of the United States won the downhill World Cup title for the fourth year in a row here on Saturday when she placed second behind Anja Paerson of Sweden.It was 29-year-old Paerson's 42nd World Cup race win - her first ...
Slovenia's Tina Maze won the World Cup super-combined race here on Friday ahead of American Lindsey Vonn, who clinched the Crystal Globe in the discipline for the second consecutive year.It was the first victory on the World Cup circuit this season and ...
Germany's Maria Riesch claimed the 19th World Cup victory of her career in the super-combined here on Friday, ahead of Slovenian Tina Maze and Elisabeth Gorgl of Austria.Victory allowed Olympic champion Riesch to bounce back from the disappointment of the world championships ...
World and Olympic slalom champion Maria Riesch will be looking to end her world ski championships with a third medal when she defends her crown on Saturday in her home town.The 26-year-old has already won bronze medals in both the downhill and ...
Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn insisted Sunday she was not being a 'drama queen' as she defended her criticism of the course here at the world ski championships.Vonn lost her world downhill crown when she finished second down the Kandahar course behind ...
Austria's Elisabeth Goergl won the women's world downhill title on Sunday with Lindsey Vonn of the United States taking silver and Germany's Maria Riesch taking bronze.Goergl scorched down the twisting Kandahar course to set a winning time of 1min 47.24sec and claim ...
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Elisabeth Goergl stunned favorites Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch for the second time at the world Alpine ski championships on Sunday, winning the downhill to add to her super-G title.The 29-year-old Austrian had never previously won a top-level ...