PRESS RELEASE – 17 NOVEMBER 2024
Levi stays an amazing occasion for Lena Dürr. Within the Slalom on Saturday, the German athlete completed third on the rostrum for the fifth time within the World Cup venue in Finland. Fourth and fifth place went to Anna Swenn-Larsson and Camille Rast. Emma Aicher clocked the quickest time on the second run.
“Lena Dürr’s efficiency was superb. The ladies’s group taking third, fourth, and fifth place was an amazing outcome, and Emma Aicher’s efficiency with the perfect time on the second run was merely good,” emphasised HEAD Racing Director Rainer Salzgeber. “So far as the boys’s group is anxious, we’re additionally leaving Levi on a constructive observe. There have been many nice issues occurring, and we realized lots on the primary run. For the second run, we optimized Atle Lie McGrath’s set-up, and he skied a wonderful time. Benjamin Ritchie, who completed within the high 15 with a excessive bib variety of 48, was additionally pleasing. That was a very good growth.”
“The beginning is crucial factor for me”
Lena Dürr, who was second within the Slalom World Cup final season, was in second place after the primary run. Snowboarding the eleventh quickest time on the second run, she snatched her first podium end of the season within the first Slalom this season. The 33-year-old can look again on a profitable sequence in Levi over the previous 4 seasons: she bagged two third locations in 2021, two fourth locations in 2022, a second and third place in 2023, and a 3rd place this 12 months. “I’m pleased that I managed to achieve the rostrum once more. The beginning is crucial factor for me. I’m not going to be trying too far forward; it’s going to be one occasion at a time, so I’m actually centered on subsequent weekend,” stated a delighted Lena Dürr.
Emma Aicher clocks quickest second run
With Anna Swenn-Larsson from Sweden in fourth place, Camille Rast from Switzerland in fifth place, and Emma Aicher from Germany in ninth place, three extra HEAD Worldcup Rebels completed within the high ten. Clocking the perfect time on the second run, Emma Aicher moved up from twenty second place into the highest ten. World Cup factors had been additionally picked up by Wendy Holdener from Switzerland in sixteenth place, Cornelia Öhlund and Sara Hector from Sweden in seventeenth and nineteenth place, and Dzenifera Germane from Latvia, who completed in twenty first place.
Atle Lie McGrath finishes twelfth
Within the males’s slalom on Sunday, Atle Lie McGrath from Norway, who began the season with a third-place podium within the Large Slalom in Sölden, was the quickest HEAD Worldcup Insurgent in twelfth place, having clocked the sixth-best time on the second run. Proper behind him, Benjamin Ritchie was delighted along with his greatest particular person World Cup outcome up to now, thirteenth place. The USA athlete put in a mighty fifth-fastest time on the second run. Dave Ryding from Nice Britain completed sixteenth in his debut for HEAD with the fifth quickest time on the primary run, whereas Albert Popov from Bulgaria completed in 18th place.
