NSWIS skier Brad Wall has won the national slalom and giant slalom championships, while Mt Buller skier Katya Crema has made a clean sweep of the women’s titles in open and junior slalom and GS.
NSWIS skier Brad Wall has won the national slalom and giant slalom championships, while Mt Buller skier Katya Crema has made a clean sweep of the women’s titles in open and junior slalom and GS.
Competing in Thredbo, Wall skied to a two run total of one by .2 of a second, with Hyung Chul Kim of Korea taking the bronze.
Luke Deane was the next best Australian, finishing in fifth place overall.
In the slalom, Wall recorded a total time of 1 minute 36.82 seconds to defeat French skier Fabien Poccard Chapuis by .21 of a second, with Woo-Sung Kim of Korea in third place in 1:39.19.
Best of the rest of the Australians in the slalom was Thredbo junior Hugh Stevens. Stevens also won the national junior slalom and junior titles
In the women’s events, Crema finished third in the GS behind Korean Sun Joo Kim and Austrian Marie-Therese Strobl, but as the best of the Australians she took the national title ahead of ACT skier Lucy Ainge (who finished in sixth place) and Hotham’s Sarah Sauvey.
Crema turned the tables on the Austrian and Korean in the slalom, taking the gold medal, with Sauvey again filling second and third places for the local skiers.
Competing in Thredbo, Wall skied to a two run total of one by .2 of a second, with Hyung Chul Kim of Korea taking the bronze.
Luke Deane was the next best Australian, finishing in fifth place overall.
In the slalom, Wall recorded a total time of 1 minute 36.82 seconds to defeat French skier Fabien Poccard Chapuis by .21 of a second, with Woo-Sung Kim of Korea in third place in 1:39.19.
Best of the rest of the Australians in the slalom was Thredbo junior Hugh Stevens. Stevens also won the national junior slalom and junior titles
In the women’s events, Crema finished third in the GS behind Korean Sun Joo Kim and Austrian Marie-Therese Strobl, but as the best of the Australians she took the national title ahead of ACT skier Lucy Ainge (who finished in sixth place) and Hotham’s Sarah Sauvey.
Crema turned the tables on the Austrian and Korean in the slalom, taking the gold medal, with Sauvey again filling second and third places for the local skiers.
