World Cup Canada: Atherthon wins - Siegenthaler misses the podium
British athlete Rachel Atherton was already well ahead in the qualifying run with a lead of over twelve seconds. In the final run, she prevailed with similar superiority. The differences in the classification happen behind her: Manon Carpenter, the world champion from 2014, is unable to build on her performance from qualifying and finishes fourth. The other podium places went to Tracey Hannah ahead of Tahnee Seagrave and Miranda Miller (CAN) in fifth place.
Emilie Siegenthaler crashed heavily a few times in training. In qualifying, she had a flat tire with the fourth-best top intermediate time. "My goal was the podium, but it's okay. I'm not far off it, so I'm satisfied. I've had a difficult week here with the crashes and the flats and now I've put in a clean run. I had to slow down a bit in a few places," summarizes the Swiss champion. In the end, Siegenthaler was only two seconds off Miller and thus off the podium. Nevertheless, the clean run seems to have paid off. With her sixth place, she remains in fifth place overall.
Carina Cappellari, the second Swiss woman in the race, finished 14th and didn't really find her way into the race, as she explained: "In training this morning it was even wetter and more slippery than in the race, so I was more cautious. Maybe that wasn't so good. I couldn't find my flow and made lots and lots of small mistakes. The longer it went on, the better it went, but still: it was never good.
Among the juniors, Ari Montanier made it into the final of the top 30 and achieved a good 17th place. Montanier is satisfied with this result, especially in view of the World Championships in Val di Sole.
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