Sporting Digest: Skiing
ALPINE WORLD CUP (Kitzbuhel, Aut) Men: Downhill: 1 P Ortlieb (Aut) 2min 00.12sec; 2 M Girardelli (Lux) 2:00.59; 3 W Besse (Swit) 2:00.96; 4 L Kjus (Nor) 2:01.03; 5 F Cavegn (Swit) 2:01.17; 6 H Trinkl (Aut) 2:01.25; 7 D Mahrer (Swit) 2:01.31; 8 T Moe (US) 2:01.40; 12 G Bell (GB) 2:01.79. Other GB: 51 M Bell 2:05.11. Downhill standings: 1 Ortlieb 321pts; 2 Girardelli 290; 3 Trinkl 176; 4 Mahrer 164. GB: 40 M Bell 24; 41 G Bell 22. Slalom: 1 T Stangassinger (Aut) 1min 37.85sec (first leg 47.33 sec, second leg 50.52); 2 T Sykora (Aut) 1:38:42 (48.27, 50.15); 3 A Tomba (It) 1:38.48 (47.98, 50.50); 4 T Fogdoe (Swe) 1:38.62 (47.63, 50.99); 5 B Gstrein (Aut) 1:38.99 (48.58, 50.41); 6 S Vogelreiter (Aut) 1:39.03 (48.59, 50.44); 7 P Staub (Swit) 1:39.22 (48.80, 50.42); 8 O C Furuseth (Nor) 1:39.24 (48.26, 50.98). Slalom standings: 1 Stangassinger 405pts; 2 F C Jagge (Nor) 344; 3 Tomba 340; 4 J Kosir (Sloven) 301. Combined: 1 Kjus 3:42.08 (downhill 2:01.03, slalom 1:41.05); 2 Aamodt 3:42.64 (2:02.20, 1:40.44); 3 G Mader (Aut) 3:44.92 (2:03.05, 1:41.87); 4 T Moe (US) 3:47.38 (2:01.40, 1:45.98); 5 H Strand-Nilsen (Nor) 3:48.78 (2:04.49, 1:44.29). World Cup overall: 1 K A Aamodt (Nor) 787pts; 2 Mader 626; 3 Tomba 514; 4 Girardelli 491.
(Cortina d'Ampezzo, It) Women: Super giant slalom: 1 K Seizinger (Ger) 1min 11.96sec; 2 U Maier (Aut) 1:12.55; 3 K Lee-Gartner (Can) 1:12.58; 4 B Perez (It) 1:12.76; 5 P Wiberg (Swe) 1:12.87; 6= H Gerg (Ger), A Wachter (Aut) 1:12.99; 8 C Merle (Fr) 1:13.08. Super giant slalom standings: 1 Seizinger 160pts; 2 Perez 130; 3= K Koren (Sloven), Maier 100. Giant slalom: 1 Wachter 2min 38.80sec (first leg 1:15.77, second leg 1:23.03); 2 D Compagnoni (It) 2:39.53 (1:16.20, 1:23.33); 3 L Piccard (Fr) 2:41.22 (1:17.68, 1:23.54); 4 U Maier (Aut) 2:41.75 (1:17.33, 1:24.42); 5 V Schneider (Swit) 2:42.25 (1:17.14, 1:25.11); 6 Wiberg 2:42.45 (1:18.28, 1:24.17); 7 H Voelker (US) 2:43.57 (1:17.86, 1:25.71); 8 Seizinger 2:43.62 (1:17.64, 1:25.98). Giant slalom standings: 1 Wachter 540pts; 2 Compagnoni 475; 3 Schneider 356; 4 Maier 332. World Cup: 1 Wiberg 805; 2 Wachter 794; 3 Schneider 743; 4 Compagnoni 610.
FREESTYLE WORLD CUP (Breckenridge, Col) Ballet Men: 1 H Baumgartner (Swit) 24.45pts; 2 I Edmondson (US) 24.20; 3 F Becker (Fr) 23.90. World Cup ballet standings: 1 Becker 396pts; 2 Baumgartner 392; 3 Edmondson 356. Women: 1 E Breen (US) 26.45; 2 O Kutschenko (Rus) 25.35; 3 C Fechoz (Fr) 24.60. World Cup ballet standings: 1 Breen 396pts; 2 Kutschenko 384; 3 Fechoz 352. Moguls: Men: 1 E Grospiron (Fr) 26.89pts; 2 S Shupletsov (Rus) 26.14; 3 S Smith (US) 25.80. World Cup moguls standings: 1= Shupletsov, Grospiron 280pts; 3 O Cotte (Fr) 268. Women: 1 D Weinbrecht (US) 300; 2 T Mittermayer (Ger) 276; 3 S L Hattestad (Nor) 268. World Cup moguls standings: 1 Weinbrecht 300; 2 Mittermayer 276; 3 Hattestad 268.
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