Kammerlander Wins in Kühtai

From Kühtai, AUT

(Dec. 3, 2017) Thomas Kammerlander had to come back to win the gold medal in Kühtai.

The Austrian came into the second heat in second place, just behind Alex Gruber of Italy. Both Kammerlander and doubles gold medalist Patrick Pigneter put down quick runs to put the pressure on Gruber. Gruber failed to answer, coming down with the fourth quickest run and handing the gold medal to Kammerlander.

Pigneter finished with a silver medal, finishing just .04 ahead of Gruber, who won bronze.

Michael Scheikl of Austria finished fourth, while teammate Christian Schopf finished fifth. Stefan Federer helped make it an all Austria & Italy top six, finishing sixth.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Thomas Kammerlander AUT 47 30.98 31.11 1:02.09
2 Patrick Pigneter ITA 46 31.19 31.11 1:02.30
3 Alex Gruber ITA 45 30.82 31.52 1:02.34
4 Michael Scheikl AUT 43 31.20 31.28 1:02.48
5 Christian Schopf AUT 32 31.62 31.66 1:03.28
6 Stefan Federer ITA 34 31.61 31.69 1:03.30
7 Aleksandr Egorov RUS 42 31.86 31.54 1:03.40
8 Florian Glatzl AUT 40 31.44 31.99 1:03.43
9 Florian Clara ITA 41 31.65 31.86 1:03.51
10 Gregori Bukin RUS 44 31.67 32.00 1:03.67
11 Stanislav Kovshik RUS 35 31.80 31.94 1:03.74
12 Jack Leslie NZL 31 32.23 32.59 1:04.82
13 Aleksey Martyanov RUS 33 32.26 32.88 1:05.14
14 Veselin Iliev BIH 36 33.23 32.70 1:05.93
15 Andriy Demchuk UKR 30 33.14 32.80 1:05.94
16 Christian Wichan GER 22 32.78 33.34 1:06.12
17 Josef Limmer GER 27 33.60 33.20 1:06.80
18 Marius Schmelzer GER 29 33.39 33.55 1:46.94
19 Daniel Hofmann SUI 25 33.39 33.59 1:46.98
20 Oliver Schiller GER 16 33.61 33.65 1:07.26
21 Myroslav Lenko UKR 21 34.48 34.71 1:09.19
22 Bine Mekina SLO 15 34.76 34.88 1:09.64
23 Joshua Reeves GBR 28 34.94 35.09 1:10.03
24 Marcins Sitkowski POL 19 35.09 35.06 1:10.15
25 Michael Törnquist SWE 1 35.59 36.13 1:11.72
26 Rafal Zasuwa POL 24 52.45 33.91 1:26.36