Andre Myhrer Slalom Gold
Myhrer's surprise Slalom Gold
PyeongChang 2018Olympic news: Sweden’s Andre Myhrer surprise Slalom winner
Andre Myhrer of Sweden was the surprise winner of the Men’s Olympic Slalom earlier today with Swtizerland’s Ramon Zenhaeusern taking silver and Austria’s Michael Matt coming in bronze place.
The pre-race favourite Marcel Hirscher, got a DNF after missing a gate in his first run. He had previously taken Gold in the Giant Slalom and Combined but the Slalom event eluded him, leaving the door open for other skiers. In the end, Myhrer finished 0.34secs ahead of Zenhaeusern and 0.67secs in front of Matt.
Great Britain’s Dave Ryding could only manage ninth after a very promising build-up to the Games. Still a very respectable result for the man from Chorley who plied his trade on the artificial slopes of the UK. Ryding was in 13th after the first run, later moving up to ninth. His final time was 1.17secs slower than Myhrer. Fellow Team GB skier, Laurie Taylor, finished 26th – again a very respectable result considering the massive field and number of DNF’s on the day.
RESULTS:
Rank | Country | Name | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |
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1 | SWE | Andre Myhrer | (2) 47.93 | (8) 51.06 | 1:38.99 | 0.00 |
2 | SWI | Ramon Zenhaeusern | (9) 48.66 | (2) 50.67 | 1:39.33 | +0.34 |
3 | AUT | Michael Matt | (12) 49.00 | (1) 50.66 | 1:39.66 | +0.67 |
4 | FRA | Clement Noel | (7) 48.58 | (10) 51.12 | 1:39.70 | +0.71 |
5 | FRA | Alexis Pinturault | (6) 48.54 | (11) 51.18 | 1:39.72 | +0.73 |
6 | FRA | Victor Muffat-Jeandet | (3) 48.34 | (=14) 51.41 | 1:39.75 | +0.76 |
7 | SWE | Kristoffer Jakobsen | (10) 48.74 | (12) 51.20 | 1:39.94 | +0.95 |
8 | SWI | Daniel Yule | (11) 48.88 | (13) 51.24 | 1:40.12 | +1.13 |
9 | GB | Dave Ryding | (13) 49.09 | (9) 51.07 | 1:40.16 | +1.17 |
10 | NOR | Sebastian Foss-Solevaag | (5) 48.53 | (20) 51.65 | 1:40.18 | +1.19 |
11 | AUT | Marco Schwarz | (8) 48.62 | (19) 51.57 | 1:40.19 | +1.20 |
12 | ITA | Manfred Moelgg | (4) 48.40 | (23) 51.84 | 1:40.24 | +1.25 |
13 | NOR | Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen | (=14) 49.27 | (7) 51.04 | 1:40.31 | +1.32 |
14 | SWI | Loic Meillard | (19) 49.63 | (3) 50.69 | 1:40.32 | +1.33 |
15 | AUT | Manuel Feller | (16) 49.35 | (6) 51.03 | 1:40.38 | +1.39 |
16 | ITA | Stefano Gross | (=14) 49.27 | (16) 51.44 | 1:40.71 | +1.72 |
17 | OAR | Alexander Khoroshilov | (21) 49.72 | (5) 51.01 | 1:40.73 | +1.74 |
18 | US | David Chodounsky | (17) 49.43 | (=14) 51.41 | 1:40.84 | +1.85 |
19 | SWE | Mattias Hargin | (20) 49.71 | (18) 51.51 | 1:41.22 | +2.23 |
20 | GER | Fritz Dopfer | (22) 49.79 | (17) 51.48 | 1:41.27 | +2.28 |
21 | CRO | Istok Rodes | (18) 49.60 | (22) 51.81 | 1:41.41 | +2.42 |
22 | CAN | Phil Brown | (26) 50.22 | (21) 51.72 | 1:41.94 | +2.95 |
23 | CRO | Elias Kolega | (29) 51.18 | (4) 50.94 | 1:42.12 | +3.13 |
24 | SVK | Adam Zampa | (24) 49.91 | (26) 52.36 | 1:42.27 | +3.28 |
25 | LIE | Marco Pfiffner | (28) 51.09 | (24) 52.22 | 1:43.31 | +4.32 |
26 | GB | Laurie Taylor | (27) 51.08 | (25) 52.33 | 1:43.41 | +4.42 |
27 | KOR | Donghyun Jung | (31) 51.79 | (28) 53.28 | 1:45.07 | +6.08 |
28 | GEO | Iason Abramashvili | (35) 52.69 | (29) 55.00 | 1:47.69 | +8.70 |
29 | CAN | Erik Read | (23) 49.81 | (34) 58.74 | 1:48.55 | +9.56 |
30 | HUN | Marton Kekesi | (38) 53.49 | (30) 55.56 | 1:49.05 | +10.06 |
31 | US | Mark Engel | (43) 56.18 | (27) 53.13 | 1:49.31 | +10.32 |
32 | BOL | Kammerlander Simon Breitfuss | (40) 54.66 | (31) 55.76 | 1:50.42 | +11.43 |
33 | BLR | Yuri Danilochkin | (41) 55.42 | (32) 56.73 | 1:52.15 | +13.16 |
34 | IRN | Mohammad Kiyadarbandsari | (42) 55.66 | (33) 57.03 | 1:52.69 | +13.70 |
35 | SVK | Andreas Zampa | (39) 54.15 | (36) 59.43 | 1:53.58 | +14.59 |
36 | ALB | Erjon Tola | (45) 58.00 | (35) 59.06 | 1:57.06 | +18.07 |
37 | COL | Michael Poettoz | (44) 57.46 | (37) 1:00.00 | 1:57.46 | +18.47 |
38 | POR | Arthur Hanse | (46) 58.26 | (38) 1:00.35 | 1:58.61 | +19.62 |
39 | KOS | Albin Tahiri | (48) 1:00.80 | (39) 1:02.13 | 2:02.93 | +23.94 |
40 | KGZ | Evgeniy Timofeev | (49) 1:01.56 | (40) 1:02.37 | 2:03.93 | +24.94 |
41 | LTU | Andrej Drukarov | (47) 59.40 | (42) 1:07.77 | 2:07.17 | +28.18 |
42 | ARM | Ashot Karapetyan | (50) 1:02.47 | (41) 1:05.61 | 2:08.08 | +29.09 |
43 | PRK | Myong Gwang Choe | (51) 1:09.42 | (43) 1:13.39 | 2:22.81 | +43.82 |
NOR | Henrik Kristoffersen | (1) 47.72 | DNF | |||
JPN | Naoki Yuasa | (36) 52.89 | DNF | |||
CAN | Trevor Philp | (25) 49.95 | DNF | |||
US | Nolan Kasper | (34) 52.44 | DNF | |||
SPA | Joaquim Salarich | (33) 52.07 | DNF | |||
SVK | Matej Falat | (32) 51.86 | DNF | |||
POL | Michal Jasiczek | (30) 51.64 | DNF | |||
BEL | Sam Maes | (37) 52.90 | DNF | |||
PRK | Song Il Kang | (52) 1:11.43 | DNF | |||
AUT | Marcel Hirscher | DNF | ||||
SWI | Luca Aerni | DNF | ||||
NOR | Jonathan Nordbotten | DNF | ||||
FRA | Jean-Baptiste Grange | DNF | ||||
GER | Linus Strasser | DNF | ||||
SLO | Stefan Hadalin | DNF | ||||
CRO | Matej Vidovic | DNF | ||||
ITA | Riccardo Tonetti | DNF | ||||
SPA | Campo Juan Del | DNF | ||||
BUL | Kamen Zlatkov | DNF | ||||
SLO | Zan Kranjec | DNF | ||||
HUN | Dalibor Samsal | DNF | ||||
ITA | Alex Vinatzer | DNF | ||||
BUL | Albert Popov | DNF | ||||
CRO | Filip Zubcic | DNF | ||||
CZE | Ondrej Berndt | DNF | ||||
LAT | Kristaps Zvejnieks | DNF | ||||
NZ | Adam Barwood | DNF | ||||
BEL | Kai Alaerts | DNF | ||||
BIH | Emir Lokmic | DNF | ||||
NZ | Willis Feasey | DNF | ||||
CZE | Filip Forejtek | DNF | ||||
GRE | Ioannis Antoniou | DNF | ||||
CZE | Jan Zabystran | DNF | ||||
OAR | Ivan Kuznetsov | DNF | ||||
ISR | Itamar Biran | DNF | ||||
AUS | Dominic Demschar | DNF | ||||
SER | Marko Vukicevic | DNF | ||||
AZE | Patrick Brachner | DNF | ||||
MNO | Eldar Salihovic | DNF | ||||
ROM | Alexandru Barbu | DNF | ||||
MKD | Antonio Ristevski | DNF | ||||
SER | Marko Stevovic | DNF | ||||
EST | Tormis Laine | DNF | ||||
MOR | Adam Lamhamedi | DNF | ||||
KOR | Dong Woo Kim | DNF | ||||
CHI | Kai Horwitz | DNF | ||||
KAZ | Igor Zakurdaev | DNF | ||||
BRZ | Michel Macedo | DNF | ||||
CZE | Adam Kotzmann | DNF | ||||
DEN | Naested Casper Dyrbye | DNF | ||||
LUX | Matthieu Osch | DNF | ||||
TUR | Serdar Deniz | DNF | ||||
MEX | Sommers Rodolfo Roberto Dickson | DNF | ||||
UKR | Ivan Kovbasnyuk | DNF | ||||
CYP | Dinos Lefkaritis | DNF | ||||
SA | Connor Wilson | DNF | ||||
UZB | Komiljon Tukhtaev | DNF | ||||
SMR | Alessandro Mariotti | DNF | ||||
ERI | Shannon Abeda | DNF | ||||
MAS | Jeffrey Webb | DNF | ||||
TLS | Yohan Goncalves Goutt | DNF | ||||
LBN | Allen Behlok | DNF | ||||
PKN | Muhammad Karim | DNF | ||||
ICE | Sturla Snaer Snorrason | DNS | ||||
THA | Nicola Zanon | DNS |