First World Cup win for Lee as Nadyrshina delights home crowd
Dec 11, 2021·Alpine Snowboard
Korea's Sangho Lee won his first World Cup race while Russia's rising star Sofiya Nadyrshina triumphed on home snow in the first parallel giant slalom events of the season in Bannoye on Saturday.
With only three World Cup podiums to his name and none since December 2019, Lee was not among the favourites entering the event but he was the last man standing after his final three opponents all failed to finish.
In the final, the 26-year-old Lee trailed Germany's Stefan Baumeister early but came back to even the race heading towards the finish before Baumeister went out of the course with just four gates remaining.
In the small final, Russia's Andrei Sobolev defeated Italy's Mirko Felicetti to claim the final podium place after a disappointing fall just five gates into his semifinal against Baumeister.
Pre-race favourite and last season's Bannoye winner Dmitrii Loginov (RUS) registered a DNF in the 1/8th final after missing a gate on the lower part of the course while trailing Baumeister.
In the women's event, 18-year-old Nadyrshina defeated Germany's Ramona Theresia Hofmeister in a mouthwatering final featuring last season's top two PGS racers.
After a tight first half of the race, defending overall and PGS World Cup champion Hofmeister stumbled on a turn and put both hands on the snow, allowing a flawless Nadyrshina to surge ahead and claim victory by 0.9 seconds.
In the small final, Germany's Carolin Langenhorst edged Austria's Julia Dujmovits by 0.03 seconds to record her first PGS World Cup podium since January 2017.
The Bannoye alpine snowboard World Cup continues on Sunday with women's and men's parallel slalom races.
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