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Jansrud stays perfect in super-G
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NOT since Hermann Maier has a skier dominated in super-G the way Kjetil Jansrud is doing this season.
The Norwegian yesterday became only the second man to win the first three super-G races of the season after Austrian great Hermann Maier, who accomplished the feat twice — in 1997-98 and 1999-2000.
“Looking at his career and mine, I’m not even comparable to him,” Jansrud said after winning the super-G in Santa Caterina di Valfurva, Italy.
It was the 18th win of Jansrud’s World Cup career, matching him with Lasse Kjus for third place among Norwegian men — behind Aksel Lund Svindal (32) and Kjetil Andre Aamodt (21).
While Svindal and Aamodt may still be in range for Jansrud, catching Maier, who is second on the all-time list with 54 wins, is unlikely.
“Just to be mentioned together with his name is quite unbelievable,” Jansrud said.
Jansrud, the Olympic champion, finished 0.60 seconds ahead of Hannes Reichelt of Austria and 0.65 in front of Dominik Paris of Italy.
In another strong day for Norway, Jansrud’s teammates Aleksander Aamodt Kilde finished fourth and Adrian Smiseth Sejersted was a career-best ninth.
Svindal is sitting out this week’s races to rest a sore knee.
Not a speed specialist, overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher finished 47th and failed to gain any points. Still, the Austrian holds a comfortable lead of 151 points over Jansrud in the overall standings.
In the super-G standings, Jansrud has a perfect 300 points and is 148 ahead of Paris.
This was the first time that a men’s super-G was contested on the Compagnoni course. The race was originally scheduled for Lake Louise, Alberta, earlier this season but was moved due to a lack of snow in the Canadian resort.
In Semmering, Austria, American slalom queen Mikaela Shiffrin registered a rare giant slalom success yesterday.
Olympic champion Shiffrin, 21, notched up her 24th overall World Cup success but only her second in the discipline with a time of 2 minutes 01.81 seconds.
In second came France’s Tessa Worley at 0.78 seconds with Italian Manuela Moelgg taking third at 1.09.
Worley leads the giant slalom standings while Shiffrin controls the overall standings by 55 points from Swiss Lara Gut, the defending Crystal Globe champion who recovered from 17th place after the first run to finish fourth.
Shiffrin’s only previous giant slalom success came at another Austrian ski resort at Soelden in October 2014.
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