Close box on the Kronplatz: Hector wins shortly before Vlhova

She is the new challenger of Olympic champion Mikaela Shirin at Winter Games in Beijing: The Sweden Sara Hector has won the last giant clay before the season highlight in China. The 29-year-old ski tourist won on the Kronplatz on Tuesday before the Slovak Total World Cup winner Petra Altova and the Frenchwoman Tessa Morley. Shirin rode five on the difficult slopes in South Tyrol. A German was not at the start.

She himself surprised, said Hector after her third victory in the sixth giant gate of the winter. Before the season she hardly had someone on the bill. Already in December 2009, the Swedish debuted in the World Cup, but since then she was only once - a good seven years ago in the Austrian Kublai - went up to the podium. Now she travels as a total leader of the alpine core discipline and as medal co-administration to the games from 4 to 20 February.

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I've been given to gas and risked everything, said Hector, having even allowed a small mistake in the second round on the Kronplatz. I was so angry. Since those leading after the first run Altova and exceptional athletic Shirin did not go down the slope without a wobble, but enough for Hector to victory. Shirin whose second-strongest discipline is after the slalom of giant coring will have to stretch at Olympia to get gold again.

The German ladies were not represented at the Kronplatz. The giant slalom remains your big construction site. Since Marlene Schmitz has brought during the season opener in Golden in October as the 28th three points, the former Paradise discipline of the now resigned Olympic Computer Viktoria Regensburg no counter have fulfilled.

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