World Cup Champion Pinggera Wins Season Opener

From Kühtai, AUT

(Dec. 3, 2017) World Cup champion Greta Pinggera won gold, coming from behind to do so.

Pinggera found herself .14 behind Austrian Tina Unterberger going into the second run in Kühtai. While neither woman seemed to make a mistake, Pinggera’s trip down was slightly quicker and Unterberger wound up .03 behind the world champion, having to settle for silver.

Evelin Lanthaler of Italy finished third, .56 off the pace and just .02 ahead of Austrian Michelle Diepold, who finished fourth. Daria Maleeva of Russia finished fifth, while Italian Daniela Mittermair fnished sixth.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Greta Pinggera ITA 26 32.24 32.07 1:04.31
2 Tina Unterberger AUT 25 32.10 32.24 1:04.34
3 Evelin Lanthaler ITA 27 32.54 32.33 1:04.87
4 Michelle Diepold AUT 24 32.27 32.62 1:04.89
5 Daria Maleeva ITA 23 32.36 32.80 1:05.16
6 Daniela Mittermair ITA 17 32.74 32.55 1:05.29
7 Sara Bachmann GER 5 32.79 33.00 1:05.79
8 Ekaterina Lavrentyeva RUS 1 33.27 32.56 1:05.83
9 Michaela Niemetz GER 19 33.87 33.60 1:07.47
10 Lisa Walch GER 18 33.09 35.40 1:08.49
11 Irma Karisik BIH 22 34.57 34.39 1:08.96
12 Anastasiya Slyusar UKR 15 35.15 34.99 1:10.14
13 Vanessa Markt AUT 9 35.25 35.29 1:10.54
14 Nadja Nemec SLO 13 36.48 36.32 1:12.80
15 Viktoriia Yarunich MDA 16 37.22 36.80 1:14.02
16 Julia Plowy POL 14 37.15 37.33 1:14.48