![]() The reference to the layout's lack of challenge was no surprise. Walcher, who previously had won one downhill event this season-over a much more difficult course in Morzine, France-admitted that the wind “was kind to me.” He agreed, too, that the course had been “too easy.” The winner's time over the 2,710 meter course was 1:41.00. She was so disappointed after having seen her clocking on the timing board-her performance was 1.44 seconds slower than the descent registered by the winner-that she skied right through the outrun to a refreshment tent, sat down on a small snowpile and wept. This five‐time overall champion in the World Cup, who has been attempting a comeback this season after undergoing an operation, finished only fifth. Particularly bothered by the wind was Annemarie Proell Moser of Austria. The winner was Brigitte Habersatter, the Austrian downhill specialist, who won an Olympic silver medal last season. Wind was also a big factor in the women's downhill, which was held on the course used by the men. Russi was only six‐hundredths of a second slower than the runner‐up. Grissmann, with a clocking of 1 minute 37.14 seconds, trailed Walcher by 70‐hundreths of a second. It was one fitting for a downhill for juniors.”īernhard Russi, the 29‐year‐old plunger from Switzerland, who finished third behind the second‐place Werner Grissmann of Austria, also faulted the wind and the simple layout. The course, as everyone knew, was too flat. The downhill star, noted for his late rush on the more testing layouts, had signs of tears in his eyes as he said: ![]() The favored Franz Klammer, 1976 Olympic downhill champion, also from Austria, found himself without any further chance to win the World Cup overall crown, after he had come home fifth. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., March 12-On a day in which the wind played favorites, gusting for some and subsiding for others, Josef Watcher of Austria registered a surprise victory today, capturing the World Cup men's downhill event at Heavenly Valley over a course considered by racers too easy.įorty‐three men turned out for the competition, which also produced another unexpected development.
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