Wednesday March 2nd 2011

From february 28th to march 5th the 13th FAI World Para-Ski Championships were held in the upper austrian ski ressort Gosoau am Dachstein. Together with Skydive HFSC-Freistadt and the community of Gosau the Austrian Aeroclub (national airsport commission) organizes this World Airsport Event.

Monday 28.2.2011 Arrival and Training Day: 74 athletes, male and female competitors, as well as well as 30 coaches and officials from 21 nations were registered and dressed. From 10:30 a.m. all teams had the possibility to do some training jumps at the competition area. Eight nations used this opportunity to gain some experience on the landing area at Hornspitz Lift.

Tuesday 1.3.2011 Giant Slalom Qualification and Accuracy: Magdalene Schwertl and Markus Seifert, both from Austria, were dominating the giant slalom. Team Slowenia Elan won the skiing qualification, second place team Austria Red. After the team leader meeting at 11:30 the competition continued with Accuracy. During the first round accuracy technical problems occured on the measurement system. Just before the round could be continued, the pilot reported a technical problem with the helicopter. The meet director ended the first competition day at 15:00 o’clock.

Wednesday 2.3.2011 2 runs Giant Slalom and 3 rounds Accuracy: The day started with two rounds giant slalom. Schwertl Magdalena from Austria won the giant slalom in front of Erica Franz from Switzerland and Irena Avbelj from Slovenia. Valente Marco from Italy won before Anton Gruber of Austria and Reinhold Haibel from Germany. After the giant slalom accuracy startet at 12:30. The difficult wind conditions improves. Till 17:00 three rounds accuracy had been completed. After 2 runs giant slalom and 3 rounds accuracy the Para-Ski combined score for the leaders:

Man: 1. Aleksey Burenin RUS, 2. Uros Ule SLO, 3. Matej Becan SLO
Women: 1. Irene Avbelj SLO, 2. Erica Franz SUI, 3. Christina Franz SUI
Juniors: 1. Michael Grossegger AUT, 2. Viacheslav Pachkolin RUS, 3. Marko Premuzic CRO
Masters: 1. Erica Franz SUI, 2. Heinz Empl AUT, 3. Timothy Mace RSA
Team: 1. Slovenia ELAN, 2. Russia 1, 3. Austria White
The austrian competitors have good a chances to win medals on thursday. All results are online on www.paraski2011.at .

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