SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM – American skier Lauren Macuga posted the quickest time within the downhill portion of the brand new group mixed occasion on the Alpine snowboarding world championships on Tuesday.
Her teammate Paula Moltzan will begin the slalom portion later Tuesday with a bonus of 0.23 seconds over Germany 1, the place Emma Aicher ran the downhill and Lena Duerr was scheduled to race the slalom.
Austria 1, with downhiller Mirjam Puchner and slalom racer Katharina Liensberger, was 0.38 seconds behind in third.
Downhill world champion Breezy Johnson, who groups with Mikaela Shiffrin, trailed by 0.51 seconds in fourth.
Lindsey Vonn completed a full two seconds behind Johnson and left her teammate AJ Damage with a deficit of two.51 seconds for the slalom.
Vonn had campaigned to race with Shiffrin on an American group that may have united the 2 most profitable skiers in World Cup historical past, however the teaching employees determined to kind the groups based mostly on “season-best outcomes” in each downhill and slalom.
The group mixed entails one racer competing in a downhill run and one other in a slalom run, with their two occasions added as much as decide the ultimate outcomes. Every nation can enter as much as 4 pairings.
The group mixed will make its debut at subsequent 12 months’s Milan-Cortina Olympics and was first held at elite stage on Tuesday, after it had been examined at junior world championships.
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