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Crawford’s podium finish at Olympic test event

15/2/2013

 
Snowboard halfpipe athlete Holly Crawford delivered Australia’s first podium finish at the site of next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi tonight (Russian time).

Crawford, the silver medallist at last month’s World Championships, finished second in tonight’s fourth round of this season’s World Cup tour, which was also a test event for next year’s Winter Olympic Games, but aggravated a long standing injury.

The Australian Institute of Sport / NSW Institute of Sport rider’s condition was being assessed by medical personnel tonight, however, it is believed that the injury relates to rib cage cartilage damage.

She has been dealing with the condition since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

Crawford, who is known for her courage and resilience on the tour, could not attend tonight’s medal ceremony, which would have been her 17th podium appearance in a stellar career.

The event started brilliantly for the Australian, with Crawford earning automatic inclusion in the final, bypassing the need to compete in the semi-finals, by finishing her qualification heat yesterday in third place.

Crawford arrived at tonight’s halfpipe, which is part of a $50 billion-plus greenfield development for the 2014 Sochi Games, in discomfort after the rib injury recurred in the qualification session.

Her first run down the halfpipe in tonight’s final saw the Perisher based rider deliver a solid performance, attracting 78 points from the judges, enough to earn her second place at the halfway mark of proceedings.

Approaching her second run for the night with more determination to press for the lead, Crawford fell early, in what appeared to be a minor mishap.

However, the slight fall immediately ended her hopes of improving her run one score.

Crawford finished second to America’s two-time Olympic medallist Kelly Clark, with Frenchwoman Sophie Rodriguez in third.

Current Olympic champion Torah Bright showed glimpses of her talent but had to settle for seventh, resulting from a mistake on both runs, while other Aussie results saw Stephanie Magiros in 23rd, Hannah Trigger in 27th and Alexandra Fitch in 31st position.

AIS / NSWIS rider, Nathan Johnstone, was eighth in the men’s final after replicating Crawford’s performance of gaining automatic inclusion into tonight’s final with the third best score in his qualification heat.

Johnstone, who went into the event with severe jetlag and a virus, was unable to complete a clean run tonight, but was encouraging with his level of difficulty and amplitude.

Japan’s Taku Hiraoka won, with Switzerland’s Iouri Podladtchikov second and American Scott Lago third.
Australians Scott James was 13th while AIS / NSWIS athlete Kent Callister was 58th.

Segal to miss World Championships

12/2/2013

 
Slopestyle skier Anna Segal will not defend her World Championship title in Voss, Norway, next month due to a knee injury suffered last Friday.

The Australian Institute of Sport athlete was competing in her second World Cup event of the year in Silvaplana, Switzerland, when she damaged her knee during the competition.

Despite feeling immediate pain, she competed well in the final, finishing third.

Segal will fly home to Melbourne on Thursday and is likely to have minor arthroscopic surgery next week before embarking on an eight week recovery program.

“There was one feature at the very end (of the Silvaplana course), which was not a very difficult feature but it had a flat landing,” Segal said.

“I avoided it in training but I hit it after my first qualification run.

“Because it was such a hard flat landing my knee felt like crunch, instant pain.

”It hasn’t been the best year for me. I was hoping for more. I was looking forward to upping my game in competition. I have been skiing pretty well in training but I have not put together that win-a-competition run that I know I can do.”

Segal is hoping to return to on snow training before the end of the northern hemisphere winter.

Bronze Aussie

8/2/2013

 
PictureAnna Segal on the podium IMAGE FIS
Australia’s reigning World Champion Anna Segal captured her second consecutive World Cup ski slopestyle podium finish in Silvaplana, Switzerland, today.

The 26-year-old Australian Institute of Sport / Victorian Institute of Sport athlete finished third, her second time on the podium in four World Cup starts, behind Norwegian Tiril Sjaastad Christiansen in the gold medal place, with British skier Katie Summerhayes second.

After posting the second highest score during the qualifying session to advance to the final, Segal was third on the points tally after her first run down the six feature 660 metre course, a position she was unable to improve on in her second and final run of the day.

Her result offers some consolation to the disappointment at not being able to compete in Sochi, Russia, next week.

The slopestyle World Cup circuit was scheduled to compete at the site of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games but the event was cancelled due to unseasonal warm conditions that have affected the snow cover. Other snowsport disciplines in Sochi are proceeding as scheduled.

Segal’s next event is the World Championships in Voss, Norway, where she is looming as a threat to defend the World Championship title she won in Park City, USA, in 2011.

If successful, she will become the first female Australian snowsports athlete to defend a World Championship.

Results – Women’s ski slopestyle World Cup, Silvaplana, Switzerland
1.Tiril Sjaastad Christiansen (NOR), 2. Katie Summerhayes (GBR), 3. Anna Segal (AUS), 4. Emma Dahlstrom (SWE), 5. Maiko Tsuji (JPN), 6. Nikki Blackall(CAN)


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