Stewart Wins Para Sport World Cup Race, Takes Point Lead

From St. Moritz, SUI

Feb. 19, 2021 – Switzerland’s Christopher Stewart slid to victory as part of a Swiss 1-2 on home ice in St. Moritz.

Stewart and teammate Jonas Frei sat .01 apart after one heat. On the second run Frei moved to the lead with only Stewart to go, putting down the fastest run of the race to that point. Stewart answered, with a time .18 faster than Frei to take gold by .19.

The gold for Stewart was his fourth, while the silver for Frei was a career best.

Race 1 winner, Lonnie Bissonnette, finished third. The Canadian couldn’t match his previous day’s effort and after two races finds himself 10 points behind Stewart in the tour’s points with three races to go.

Sweden’s Sebastian Westin finished fourth, up one spot from his previous day’s finish, while Corie Mapp finished fifth for Great Britain. Latvia’s Alvils Brants rounded out the top six.

The tour has one more World Cup race in St. Moritz, as well as the Para Sport World Championships, before moving to La Plange to finish out the year.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Christopher Stewart SUI 7 6.42 6.43 73.21 73.01 2:26.22
2 Jonas Frei SUI 6 6.42 6.42 73.22 73.19 2:26.41
3 Lonnie Bissonnette CAN 1 6.46 6.46 73.62 73.29 2:26.91
4 Sebastian Westin SWE 9 6.40 6.42 73.65 73.49 2:27.14
5 Corie Mapp GBR 11 6.44 6.42 73.69 73.83 2:27.52
6 Alvils Brants LAT 3 6.42 6.40 73.99 74.00 2:27.99
7 Ziva Lavrinc SLO 14 6.43 6.41 74.09 74.17 2:28.26
8 Fabrizio Caselli ITA 10 6.44 6.42 73.89 74.39 2:28.28
9 Israel Blanco ESP 2 6.45 6.43 74.91 73.88 2:28.79
10 Arturs Klots LAT 17 6.42 6.41 74.40 47.47 2:28.87
11 Hermann Ellmauer AUT 15 6.39 6.39 74.50 74.39 2:28.89
12 Flavio Menardi ITA 16 6.41 6.41 74.41 74.93 2:29.34
13 Nikolai Johann GER 5 6.39 6.39 74.59 74.79 2:29.38
14 Guro Konstantin Fronsdal NOR 4 6.43 6.42 74.44 75.14 2:29.58
15 Pier Alberto Buccoliero ITA 12 6.42 6.44 74.67 75.13 2:29.80
16 Michael Stevens RSA 13 6.36 6.36 75.30 74.95 2:30.25
17 Gabriela Knapova CZE 8 6.32 6.29 78.06 77.55 2:35.61