Egger fights fog for narrow slalom victory
Posted: Friday January 08, 1999 04:16 PM
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Egger became the sixth different winner in six slalom races this season AP |
BERCHTESGADEN, Germany (AP) -- Sabine Egger, fighting thick fog,
edged fellow Austrian Ingrid Salvenmoser by one-hundreths of a
second Friday at a slalom World Cup event.
In a dramatic finish in fog thickening with every competitor,
Egger won her first World Cup title and the first for Austria since
1995.
Egger, leader after the first run, sped down the course in on
minute 46.81 seconds as the last skier while Salvenmoser was at
1:46.82 in the first World Cup race held at Berchtesgaden in 12
years.
'The fog was so bad you could only fight your way downhill and
see what happened when you finished,' said Salvenmoser.
Sweden's Pernilla Wiberg, after her dramatic comeback triumph at
Maribor two weeks ago, finished third in 1:46.93 and retained the
overall slalom lead with 365 points.
Egger, second overall at 351, became the sixth different winner
in six slalom races this season.
The 21-year-old Egger, three times second in her career, seized
the lead in the first run. Starting sixth, she blazed to theevening's best run of 52.41 seconds before soft snow from the rain
and warm temperatures carved deep ruts.
But the tables turned on the second run as Slovenia's Spela
Pretnar, 13th on the first run, held the lead for a long time as
thick fog deepened on the slope.
Pretnar finished fourth
| Women's World Cup Slalom Results |
| Finish |
Name |
Country |
Time |
(Runs) |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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9
10
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Sabine Egger
Ingrid Salvenmoser
Pernilla Wiberg
Spela Petnar
Claudia Riegler
Karin Koellerer
Kristina Koznick
Ylva Nowen
Anita Wachter
Uska Hrovat
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Austria
Austria
Sweden
Slovenia
New Zealand
Austria
United States
Sweden
Austria
Slovenia
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1:46.81
1:46.82
1:46.93
1:47.05
1:47.05
1:47.46
1:47.73
1:47.73
1:47.86
1:47.93
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(52.41, 54.40)
(53.11, 53.71)
(52.88, 54.05)
(54.02, 53.03)
(55.07, 52.12)
(53.85, 53.61)
(53.34, 54.49)
(53.52, 54.21)
(53.69, 54.17)
(53.27, 54.66)
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| Race location: Berchtesgaden, Germany |
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