Or matt triumphs in Sölden

Stefan Luitz Handerte, Alexander Schmid looked back and torn. The German ski trucks have missed the top ten places at the World Cup prelude in Sölden. Luitz drove at the Victory of the Swiss Marco Odmatt in the Giant Slalom on the Rettenbachferner on Sunday with 1.35 seconds behind 17th Schmid (+1,53), who had been seventh after the first passage was still seventh, 19. The third German Starter, Julian Rauchfuß, was eliminated in the first run. The Austrian Roland Leitinger (+0,07) as the second and Zan Kranjec from Slovenia (+0.10) completed the podium.

The basic peed is there. I m at the music above and down, Luitz said about the first race after his degree of material. In the middle section of the route, on the notorious steep slope with up to 68 percent inclination, the 29-year-old had problems. I have to look that I am the boss and do not drive the ski with me, the athlete analyzed by the SC Bolsterlang self-critical.

For Schmid, in the face of his difficult preparation, it was surprisingly well done in the first round. The 27-year-old had long with a tendon irritation in the left knee over the summer and hardly trained in the snow. In the second run, he did not cope so well with increasingly difficult lighting conditions and slipped far from the best ten. Within two, three turns to get the pack and then be so passed in the target, is very bitter, said the athlete of the SC fishing. In total, he was very satisfied by the day.

Alexis PintTault, the French total World Cup winner and the best giant corners of the preseason, was fifth more than 9,000 spectators. His Landsmann Mathieu Faivre, who had brought in February World Cup Gold in the Giant Lalom, fell back in the second run in eleven.

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In the giant slalom of the ladies Mikaela Shifrin (USA) had celebrated their 70th World Cup victory on Saturday. Marlene Schmotz had become with her comeback 28. Andrea Filser had missed the final.