Australian rider Emanuel Oppliger has missed a place in the 16-man finals round of the parallel giant slalom at the World Snowboard Championships by just half a second.
Australian rider Emanuel Oppliger has missed a place in the 16-man finals round of the parallel giant slalom at the World Snowboard Championships by just half a second.
In a two run qualification format, Oppliger recorded a total time of one minute 23.76 seconds, .57 of a second behind the 16th fastest qualifier Rok Flander of Slovenia. He ended the event in 18th place.
In nine previous World Cup appearances, the best result the 29-year-old Ski and Snowboard Australia rider has produced has been 38th in parallel slalom earlier this season and 42nd in PGS in October 2003.
Jasey Jay Anderson of Canada claimed the world title, with Urs Eiselin of Switzerland taking the silver medal and Nicolas Huet of France collecting bronze.
An even smaller time margin - just four hundredths of a second - cost Johanna Shaw a place in the second round of the qualification heats of the women’s event.
Shaw recorded a time of 44.4 seconds on the Whistler red course to defeat her qualification opponent Bronislava Machova of Slovakia. But her time was the 17th fastest for the day on that course, .04 slower that Petra Elsterova of the Czech Republic.
With only the top 16 riders from the red and the blue course going into the 32-woman second stage of the qualification round, the Australian was eliminated.
Shaw finished in 33rd place.
The gold medal went to Austrian veteran Manuela Riegler with Svetlana Boldikova of Russia and Doresia Krings of Austria taking the minor medals. It was Riegler’s first world championship title.
In a two run qualification format, Oppliger recorded a total time of one minute 23.76 seconds, .57 of a second behind the 16th fastest qualifier Rok Flander of Slovenia. He ended the event in 18th place.
In nine previous World Cup appearances, the best result the 29-year-old Ski and Snowboard Australia rider has produced has been 38th in parallel slalom earlier this season and 42nd in PGS in October 2003.
Jasey Jay Anderson of Canada claimed the world title, with Urs Eiselin of Switzerland taking the silver medal and Nicolas Huet of France collecting bronze.
An even smaller time margin - just four hundredths of a second - cost Johanna Shaw a place in the second round of the qualification heats of the women’s event.
Shaw recorded a time of 44.4 seconds on the Whistler red course to defeat her qualification opponent Bronislava Machova of Slovakia. But her time was the 17th fastest for the day on that course, .04 slower that Petra Elsterova of the Czech Republic.
With only the top 16 riders from the red and the blue course going into the 32-woman second stage of the qualification round, the Australian was eliminated.
Shaw finished in 33rd place.
The gold medal went to Austrian veteran Manuela Riegler with Svetlana Boldikova of Russia and Doresia Krings of Austria taking the minor medals. It was Riegler’s first world championship title.
