Already winner in 2024, Youri Duplessis Kergomard repeated his performance this Friday by winning the second race of the Reiteralm. A second success in the World Cup which validates an almost perfect week for the Savoyard.
Youri Duplessis Kergomard was on mission this week at Reiteralm, best time of the two qualifications on Tuesday, winner of three of his four runs but ultimately fifth in the first race, the Savoyard overtook the competition this Friday to achieve the second success of his career. , the first for the French team this winter. “I’m exhausted but delighted,” he said smiling into the FIS microphone. He is ahead of Simone Deromedis and Kevin Drury.
Miraculous in the semi-final after a fall and forced to take biathlete steps to restart, Terence Tchiknavorian finished just off the podium.
Earlier in the day, Nicolas Raffort, after passing one round, suffered the law of the strongest in the quarter-finals.
-Second Thursday, Melvin Tchiknavorian saw his day end very early with an elimination in the round of 16 just like Eliott Piccard.
Thompson disqualified, Schmidt injured and absent from the podium
The women’s race, won by India Sherret ahead of Fanny Smith and fifth place by Marielle Berger Sabbatel, was marked by huge falls during the first semi-final and then the grand final.
Leader of the general classification, Daniela Maier, slightly hampered by Marielle Thompson, found herself in the net for a fall without apparent seriousness. But with serious consequences since the Canadian was disqualified despite the rehabilitation of the German by the judges and lost big in the optics of the crystal globe. It was then Hanna Schmidt, finally classified 3rd, who was forced not to get on the podium after a collision with Britany Phelan.
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