15th World ParaSki Championships -- Day 3

As the results are released by the Chief Judge - they will appear on this link

Thurdsday 19th February, 2015

As competitors arrive for the first run of the ski race they are greeted by sparkling snow and sunshine, no sign of yesterday's foggy conditions.

By 11.10 the last skier crossed the finish line and after a short break we will move to the second run to complete the skiing part of the Para-Ski competition.  12.10 for the start of the second run.

There were a few disappointments on the first.run but the results are - Female in 1st place after that run :  Magdelena Schwertl, Austria, with a time of 56.50  : 2nd Christine Franz, Switzerland with a time of 58.48 and : 3rd Ekaterina Nevskaya, Russia with a time of  58.79.

Male results : in first place Matej Becan, Slovenia with a time of 51.88 : 2nd Ayaz Karimov, Russia with  a time of 52.50 : and 3rd Reinhold Haibel, Germany with a time of 52.57.

Ksenia Trofimova, Russia was disqualified after the first run, as she did not make the finish - fortunately she did not sustain an injury - unfortunately the same cannot be said for Mathias Islee, Switzerland who injured his knee badly on the qualifying run and is out of the competition.  We wish him a speedy recovery.

The last gate on 1st ski run	The Course	Ski judges hut - Manifest Tent

13.30 The second ski run is completed by all competitors.  The centre of attendion at the foot of the run is the score-board where the time for each tun is meticulously recorded - it is here you can see how your immediate competitor has done and I can get a sneek preview of the scores:  Of course these are unofficial at the moment:

Female Magdelena Schwerti, Austria looks to have retained her 1st place with a second run of 57.22, which is the fastest of all the women.  Christina Franz, Switzerland did a faster run than her first by .34 seconds with a second run time of 58.14 thus retaining her second place and Ekaerina Nievskaya scored 1.01.96, retaining her third position.

Male  Matej Becan, Slovenia loses first place with a 2nd run of 53.48 giving a total for both runs of 1.05.36; and Ayaz Karimov, Russia  being pushed into third place following his run of 53.49 giving a total of 1.05.99 whereas Reinhold Halbel, Germany with a second run of 52.68 giving him a total of 1.05.25 has moved into first place.  These have neen confirmed by the offical scores.

At 14.30 the fourth round of Accuracy Landing will commence and that will complete the schedule for today.

Tomorrow the weather promises to be good - so we will be able to continue the competition in the morning.

The plan is to complete the last two fnial rounds of Accuracy Landing, 5 and 6  and theb move to the Final Round for the Individual Accuracy result.