Olympic 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
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