Fenninger grabs lead as German crashes out
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GERMANY’S Maria Hoefl-Riesch crashed heavily and was taken to hospital at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, yesterday, jeopardizing her chances of winning the overall title.
Hoefl-Riesch, the overall champion in 2011, was taken to hospital in nearby Chur with a suspected shoulder injury after crashing in the downhill which was won by Swiss Lara Gut.
More details about her condition were not immediately available but the German had been unable to take part in the downhill training because of a bad cold.
Anna Fenninger was trailing Olympic super combined gold medalist Hoefl-Riesch by 29 points in the overall World Cup standings before the start but the Austrian finished sixth in the downhill and now leads by 11 points.
Hoefl-Riesch had already clinched the World Cup downhill title but was unable to receive her crystal globe at the medal ceremony.
Fenninger holds a solid 235-point lead over third-placed Gut who won the last downhill of the season in one minute 32.31 seconds.
Austria’s Elisabeth Goergl was second, 0.05 behind and Swiss Fraenzi Aufdenblatten was third.
In the men’s downhill, Olympic champion Matthias Mayer validated his Sochi gold medal with his maiden World Cup victory.
Giant slalom Olympic and world champion Ted Ligety of the US was tied for second with Olympic silver-medalist Christof Innerhofer of Italy, 0.11 seconds behind Mayer.
A rather disappointing fifth, 0.20 adrift, was Aksel Lund Svindal who collected 45 points and claimed back the overall World Cup lead on 1,091 points, 41 more than Austria’s World Cup holder Marcel Hirscher. The Norwegian had already won the downhill crystal globe.
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