Olympic Corner: Maze and Gisin share downhill gold

13. 02. 2014

Olympic Corner: Maze and Gisin share downhill gold


The fifth day of competition in Sochi will go down in the history books as for the first time ever at a Winter Olympics an Alpine skiing gold medal was shared by two athletes.


Slovenian Tina Maze and Swiss Dominique Gisin posted exactly the same time to jointly win the women's downhill.

 

 

Maze, last year's overall World Cup champion handed Slovenia their first ever Winter Olympic gold.

Gisin meanwhile stunned the field and probably herself as well with gold as she's never finished better than third in a world cup downhill.

 

The big guns failed to fire on the sun-softened course with American Julia Mancuso coming home eighth and German super combined gold medallist Maria Hoefl-Riesch finishing 13th.

 

Switzerland's Lara Gut claimed bronze on the day a slender 0.1 seconds off the pace.


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Olympic Corner: Maze and Gisin share downhill gold