Fischnaller Wins First Gold of the Season

From Lillehammer, NOR

(Jan. 21, 2018) Dominik Fischnaller won his first race of the 2017/2018 FIL World Cup season in Lillehammer.

Fischnaller came into the second run as the leader, and as he waited his turn to head down the 1994 Olympic track he watched men who were within striking distance falter.

Dominik Fischnaller (Courtesy FIL TV)

Stepan Fedorov, who was the fourth fastest in the first heat made a mistake late in his run to slip down the order to ninth. Wolfgang Kindl was next, his run wasn’t awful, and he held his position in third.

Coming down in second place after the first run was Felix Loch. Loch, like Fedorov, made a mistake late in his run and fell down the order to fifth.

All of that carnage was all Fischnaller needed. The Italian was second-fastest in his run to beat Roman Repilov by .096. Repilov came into the second run in ninth place, but a heat-fastest run was enough to move him up the order to second.

Johannes Ludwig, Loch, and David Gleirscher rounded out the top six.

Tucker West led the way for the United States with an 11th place run, moving up from 17th after the first heat. Taylor Morris finished 12th, while Chris Mazdzer fell to 21st in his second run.

Canadian Reid Watts finished 20th, while Mitchel Malyk finished 26th.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Dominik Fischnaller ITA 23 4.414 4.447 49.204 49.386 1:38.590
2 Roman Repilov RUS 26 4.412 4.406 49.419 49.267 1:38.686
3 Wolfgang Kindl AUT 32 4.484 4.491 49.282 49.440 1:38.722
4 Johannes Ludwig GER 27 4.409 4.402 49.432 49.407 1:38.839
5 Felix Loch GER 31 4.420 4.423 49.260 49.666 1:38.926
6 David Gleirscher AUT 19 4.439 4.442 49.343 49.591 1:38.934
7 Kristers Aparjods LAT 8 4.446 4.463 49.417 49.539 1:38.956
8 Maksim Aravin RUS 14 4.485 4.493 49.363 49.600 1:39.963
9 Stepan Fedorov RUS 17 4.415 4.426 49.310 49.687 1:38.997
10 Jozef Ninis SVK 13 4.474 4.491 49.573 49.484 1:39.057
11 Tucker West USA 28 4.381 4.386 49.560 49.498 1:39.058
12 Taylor Morris USA 25 4.505 4.505 49.495 49.583 1:39.078
13 Armin Frauscher AUT 18 4.417 4.433 49.509 49.600 1:39.109
14 Kevin Fischnaller ITA 15 4.451 4.484 49.358 49.757 1:39.115
15 Semen Pavlichenko RUS 30 4.402 4.434 49.809 49.393 1:39.202
16 Nico Gleirscher AUT 21 4.420 4.425 49.507 49.734 1:39.241
17 Inars Kivlenieks LAT 16 4.410 4.425 49.451 49.878 1:39.329
18 Reinhard Egger AUT 20 4.445 4.448 49.590 49.813 1:39.403
19 Andi Langenhan GER 29 4.429 4.423 49.779 49.641 1:39.420
20 Reid Watts CAN 10 4.487 4.489 49.690 49.738 1:39.428
21 Chris Mazdzer USA 22 4.423 4.435 49.550 49.887 1:39.437
22 Ralf Palik GER 24 4.444 4.439 49.499 49.966 1:39.465
23 Emanuel Rieder ITA 9 4.499 4.442 49.685 49.811 1:39.496
24 Samuel Edney CAN 7 4.435 4.426 49.824 49.819 1:39.643
25 Arturs Darznieks LAT 1 4.451 4.451 49.790 49.963 1:39.753
26 Mitchel Malyk CAN 12 4.459 4.468 49.845 49.950 1:39.795
27 Mateusz Sochowicz POL 6 4.446 4.453 49.840 50.014 1:39.854
28 Maciej Kurowski POL 4 4.473 4.468 49.865 50.006 1:39.871
29 Valentin Cretu ROU 5 4.472 4.470 49.917 50.052 1:39.969
30 Jakub Simonak SVK 2 4.428 4.434 49.820 50.154 1:39.974
31 Aleksander Melaas NOR 3 4.577 4.598 50.094 50.206 1:40.300
32 Chris Rene Eissler GER 11 4.409 4.395 49.909 50.920 1:40.829