One of the contenders for victory had already retired during timed training. It was defending champion Rachel Atherthon, of all people, who broke her collarbone after missing two races of the World Cup due to injury. The race for the world title was therefore to be held between Tracey Hannah, Tahnee Seagrave and Myriam Nicole. But things were to turn out differently once again.

Disappointed faces in the Swiss women's camp. Both Emilie Siegenthaler and Carina Cappellari crashed and lost the opportunity to finish at the front. Carina Cappellari crashes in a hanging cross passage, which shouldn't actually be a problem. But the Swiss skier slips and goes down. She sees the first split time a good 15 seconds behind, and that's the same at the finish. Further up she also makes a small mistake in the stone field, but is able to save herself "halfway". After the fall, she lacks speed and has to pedal all the double jumps. "That took a lot of energy, but I tried my best." In the end, she came ninth in the results, but much more would have been possible.

Milie Siegenthaler made one mistake after another. A fall after the Rock Garden is the most serious. "I wasn't where I was supposed to be in the first bend. The whole flow was gone. I thought I had to step on the gas and then missed every corner," she shakes her head at herself.
"I knew it wasn't my thing here, but when you come fourth in the time trial, you're already thinking about a medal and that's what counts at a World Championships." So at the end of her most successful season to date, she only finished 17th.

The fact that the conditions with the deep dust are difficult is also evident among the favorites. Australian Tracey Hannah, who lives not far from the course and knows the terrain like no other, overturns and almost seems to give up. Nevertheless, she takes bronze, just 1.985 seconds behind surprise world champion Miranda Miller from Canada, who apparently made the fewest mistakes. Myriam Nicole from France subsequently wins silver, as an error apparently crept into the timing. Only a check of the backup timing clarifies the correct classification, much to the disappointment of Eleonora Farina, who loses the bronze award as a result.

Walker takes gold in the juniors

Pascal Reusser finishes 19th in the juniors, 15.720 seconds slower than the new world champion Matt Walker. Reusser allowed himself "two or three mistakes" in the upper section, but made it through the middle section, "very well" in his opinion. "I tried to push quite hard and pedaled hard," Reusser reports. At the bottom, he made another mistake in a root passage, but overall he was satisfied with his run. "I'm certainly not the most athletic guy, but I've trained a lot for it," says the 17-year-old about the long pedal passage in the final section.

Loris Michellod took home a rather disappointing result in 34th place (+24.535). "I made a big mistake in the first rock garden. I drifted a bit and didn't hit the line," he reports. He lost a lot of speed as a result. "I then tried to pick up speed again, but in the end I was physically dead," says Michellod. Maybe that's why he had to take his foot off the pedal again just as he was going into a step-up.

World champion is surprisingly Matt Walker, after defending champion Finnley Iles from Canada makes a big mistake at the top. The season's dominator tried to fix this by taking even more risks. With the result that he makes even more mistakes. So he only comes tenth.

Silver went to Welshman Joe Breeden, a second Briton who was 3.448 seconds slower than Walker. Bronze surprisingly went to Germany's Max Hartenstern, with a difference of 3.978 seconds.

France's Melanie Chappaz won the junior women's event, 2.701 seconds ahead of Shania Rawson from New Zealand and 6.935 seconds ahead of the second Frenchwoman Flora Lesoin.

Results DH juniors
Results DH juniors