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Branch best at 43rd in Beaver Creek

 

Branch best at 43rd in Beaver Creek

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Craig Branch has produced the best result of the Australians at the World Cup in Beaver Creek, Colorado, finishing 43rd to team-mate AJ Bear’s 48th.

Craig Branch has produced the best result of the Australians at the World Cup in Beaver Creek, Colorado, finishing 43rd to team-mate AJ Bear’s 48th. It was a significant step up for the New South Wales skier, after a 63rd in the opening downhill of the season in Lake Louise last weekend.

The race was won by US skier Bode Miller, who has been the phenomenon of the season so far. Miller has now won four of the first five events and taken silver in the other. He has also become the first person in World Cup history to win the first three events of the season across three different disciplines.

Branch was three seconds behind Miller’s winning time of 1 minute 42.75 seconds, with Bear a further .39 of a second further back.

In other Australian results, Bear and Branch both skied off the course in the super G, while Jono Brauer finished in 46th place in the slalom and Brad Wall, skiing his first World Cup, was 47th in the giant slalom.

Brauer was 3.44 seconds behind first run leader Rainer Schoenfelder of Austria. Schoenfelder's Austrian team-mate Benjamin Raich went on to win the event.

Wall skied strongly from the 66th (and last) start position, sitting 40th at the intermediate time, and handling the long and difficult course very well.

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