15th World Para Ski Championships - Day 4

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

Friday, 20th February 2015

10.30 Start this beautiful morning with the intention of jumping Rounds 5 and 6 back to back - short break then into the Final Round of Individual Accuracy..

By 12.30 we were at the end of the 6th round.  We await the official results for the teams and the names of those who will go forward into the Individual final.

At the end of round 5 Germany was still in first place, with Russia 11 cents behind and Slovenia in third place.

The picure on the left shows the approach to the target from a competitor's point of view - thanks to Henny Wiiggers, Netherlands.

Germany is about to jump their 6th round - Germany jumped and consolidated their first place - which is really a nice thing for the home Nation.  Russia held their second place with Slovenia third.  It has been a good competition in excellent conditions.  At 13.50 we will go into the final round for the Individual positions, with 9 men and 4 female jumpers.

The German TV (Bavaria TV) are here today filming the finals.  It was interesting to watch them on the slope - but they soon got the hang of what they needed to film.

Reinhold Haibel - Team Germany	Reinhold Haibel interviewed by Bavaria TV

 For the Female Teams, Austria were in 1st place, Switzerland 2nd and Russia 2 in third.

Just to show that the IPC President, Graeme Windsor is still in touch with the grass roots of our sport - here he is on the tuffet, as he has been on each round.  Joined by the Chair of the ParaSki Committee and both FAI Controller and President of the Jury at this competition.

Graeme Windsor - Round 5	Michael Egger - WIDI load

At the end of the day the results worked out as follows:

Female Individual Combined   World Champion and Gold Medal Winner - Christina Franz, Switzerland with a total of 46 points

Silver Medal, Marina Kücher, Austria, total 51 points and in Bronze Medal position, Magdalena Schwertl, Austria total of 77 points.

Male Individual Combined   World Champion and Gold Medal Winner - Matej Becan, Slovenia, with a total of 22 points

Silver Medal, Ayaz Karimov, Russia total 27 and Bronze Medal to Anton Filippov, Russia with a total of 28 points.  A very tight contest.

Junior Individual Combined  World Champion and Gold Medal Winner Sebastian Graser, Austria, with a total of 78 points

Silver Medal, Petr Chládek Jnr, Czech Republic with 84 points and with a Bronze Medal Anton Petrik Russia, with a total of 93 points.

Master Individual Combined Champion and Gold Medal Winner, Peter Klarmann, Germany with a total of 17 points

Silver Medal to Andreas Fischer, Germany with a total of 27 points and Bronze Medal goes to Thomas Saurer, Switzerland on 35 points.

It was then all back to the hotel for a Competitors' Meeting, which I will report on in the morning - followed by a very Bavarian evening of beer, glühwein, good food and dancing.