Jansrud trumps Svindal to win Wengen super-combined

Kjetil Jansrud trumped compatriot Aksel Lund Svindal in dramatic fashion to win Friday's World Cup super-combined event in Wengen, taking the dominant Norwegian team to 10 victories from 17 events this season.

The 30-year-old Jansrud, reigning Olympic super-G champion and last season's World Cup downhill and super-G champion, was in third place after the morning downhill.

Despite a terrible mistake with the finish line of the afternoon slalom in sight, the Norwegian acrobatically got back on line to do enough to clock a combined time of 2min 37.61sec for his 12th career win on the World Cup circuit.

"Every win gives you a feeling of satisfaction," Jansrud said.

"I wanted to show my aggression, to attack, that was my plan."

The Norwegian team's success was "incredible", Jansrud continued.

"In Norway we always speak of a golden generation, the one before. But what we're doing this season is astonishing, we want to continue that."

Svindal had led after the downhill, by 0.90sec on Jansrud, but had to be content with second spot, just four-hundredths of a second off his compatriot.

In clear, icy cold conditions, France's Adrien Theaux rounded out the podium, at 0.13sec.

"It was a great run for us," said Svindal. "There are still some things that I can improve on, probably in the lower section."

Defending champion Carlo Janka stood in ninth place going into the slalom, but straddled a gate, while 2013 winner Alexis Pinturault of France could only finish 13th.

The Wengen weekend continues Saturday with the downhill, one of the highlights of the World Cup season, set for 1130 GMT.

"Everything's possible tomorrow," said Theaux. "There are the Norwegians, the French, but also the Swiss.

"I'm very happy (with the podium placing), Wengen is somewhere I absolutely love."

There will also be a super-combined in Kitzbuehel next week and a third at the French resport of Chamonix on February 19, with the International Ski Federation (FIS) this season awarding a crystal globe for the discipline's overall winner for the first time since 2012.

Source :AFP