Super G at the Lauberhorn: Baumann just past the Stockerl, Ferstl in the uptrend

Finally, Rome Baumann was back very close to the pot drivers. The veteran German Alpine ski team has missed the podium in the Super G in Wen gen only by a whisker. The runner-up went on Thursday with three hundredths of a second behind the third-placed Olympic champion Matthias Mayer of Austria finished fourth. Fastest was again the outstanding Swiss Marco Zermatt, who already celebrated his sixth win of the season and increased his overall lead. Second was his character rival, the Norwegian Aleksander Almost Wilde.

Today was again really something for the confidence, Baumann said after his best ever World Cup result this season. Especially in the Super G, in which he had previously only been reached in this winter's top 20 and was even failed twice to kick off in Beaver Creek (USA), the 35-year-old could now consider a strong kick up the splendid ride on the legendary Matterhorn. So-cool was the race that had fallen in Boris turn of the year the weather victim and has now been rescheduled. The Drive will now take Baumann in the downhill in Wen gen on Friday and Saturday.

The January has always been a good month of me. Suppose this year February with yet.

Josef First

Teammate First was very satisfied with his sixth place also. He had nothing in his head and was fully down to attack, said the 33-year-old on IDF. I think it's the right time now to get an upward trend January was always a good month of me. First said, and joked with a view of the approaching Olympic Games in China (February 4 to 20): Let us also with this year February. Andreas Sander landed, however, only ranked 33. The other German competitors, Simon Ocher and Dominik Schweitzer, occupied places 23 and 39th

Not beat was once again the 24-year-old Zermatt — not even by Wilde, of the previous two Super-G races won in Val Garden, Boris. It's cool, this Battle, Zermatt said, lies in the overall World Cup, however, very far ahead Wilde. I'm in a great flow. Also, at the Beijing Games safe was much possible. Perhaps-Men's Speed ​​that goes back for the German to the last World Cup ailing Second Baumann.

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