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Big lift with season end rankings

20/3/2011

 
Australia's Scott Kneller has ended this year's international ski cross season with a World Cup ranking of 12, 31 places higher than two years ago.

The 21-year-old NSW Institute of Sport and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder made the quarter finals in Myrkdalen-Voss, Norway, last night to the finish the World Cup final round in 12th place.

The result helped to secure Kneller's career best end-of-season ranking.

The race was won by Canada's Christopher Delbosco, followed by Switzerland's Conradign Netzer and Czech Tomas Kraus, while Austria's Matt Andreas was the runaway World Cup series winner, 209 points clear of Delbodsco.

Given that Kneller finished 2009 in 43rd place and 62nd last year in an injury affected season, the Thredbo athlete can head back to Australia pleased with his World Cup results and hold high expectations for further improvement in 2011/2012.

Added to his huge improvement in the rankings, Kneller scored a World Cup victory in Italy in December.

AIS ski cross program head coach Matt Lyons said that during Australia's winter Kneller will focus on further improvement with race starts and revisit some technical aspects, in readiness for next year.

The season delivered equally positive improvement with the younger members of the women's ski cross team.

Twenty-year-old Katya Crema finished with an end-of-season ranking of 18 in the world, 36 places higher than two years ago and 15 places further up the list compared with 2010.

Crema also made last night's quarter finals finishing the day in 15th overall, behind the winner Sweden's Anna Holmlund, who also secured her first World Cup series victory, while Canada's Kelsey Serwa was second and Swizterland's Katrin Mueller was third.

Australia's other women's ski cross team members Sami Kennedy and Jenny Owens did not compete in the invitation only event.

Kennedy finished the year with a ranking of 21, which is also her best ever.

Australia's best performing ski cross rider Jenny Owens, opted out of the final round and finished the season ranked 11th.

World Cup finals appearances for two Aussies

13/3/2011

 
AIS ski cross riders Scott Kneller and Katya Crema have qualified for the invitation only World Cup finals in Voss, Norway, on March 19, capping off a year of significant improvement for all team members.

It is the first time Australia has had two athletes in the ski cross World Cup finals.

Crema earned her place to ski against the best in the world with a hard fought quarter finals appearance in Branas, Sweden, last night while Kneller had guaranteed his spot earlier in the season.

Crema finished in fourth place in last night's quarter final race, which left her in 14th place for the event overall, behind Sweden's Anna Holmlund, Canadian Kelsey Serwa in second and Norway's Marte Hoeie Gjefsen in third.

Kneller also made the Branas knock out rounds and finished 15th for the day with Austrian Andreas Matt, Canadian Christopher Delbosco and Switzerland's Conradign Netzer making up the podium positions.

Team coach Matt Lyons said he was pleased with his athletes' improvement compared to previous years.

Kneller is currently ranked 14th, whereas he finished 2009 in 43rd and 62nd last year. Crema was 54th in 2009, 33rd in 2010 and is currently sitting in 18th place. Sami Kennedy was 44th in 2009, 31st in 2010 and is ranked 21st after finishing in 20th place in Branas.

Jenny Owens, who cut short her season due to fatigue, is currently 10th on the standings, which is 29 places higher than her injury affected season in 2010. She ended 2009 in 12th while her best season was 2008 when she finished the year in 7th place.

The other team member, Anton Grimus, is competing at World Cup level this year for the first time.

Race for ski cross top 10 still on

7/3/2011

 
Australia's Jenny Owens and Scott Kneller both qualified for the World Cup ski cross finals in Meiringen-Hasliberg, Switzerland, last night but were unable to progress past their first knock out round.

Owens and Kneller, both Australian Institute of Sport and New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holders, finished in 15th and 20th places respectively.

The women's event was won by Sweden's Anna Holmlund, with Swiss skier Katrin Mueller second and France's Ophelie David in third place, while Finn Jouni Pellinen was victorious in the men's final ahead of Austrian Andreas Matt and Germany's Daniel Bohnacker.

Matt's second place means that he has won this season's ski cross World Cup, now that he holds an unassailable lead of 244 points over Canada's Christopher Delbosco.

Last night's results leave the Australian women's and men's number ones in a battle for a place in the top 10 World Cup rankings.

Owens, who is currently in ninth place on the standings, having slipped one position after her performance in Meiringen-Hasliberg, appears to have secured a year end top 10 ranking with two rounds remaining before the close of the season.

However, Owens still needs to ski well in the two remaining races in Sweden and Norway to hold out Austria's Andrea Limbacher, who is currently in 10th spot, 23 points behind the Australian, and Czech skier Nikol Kucerova, just a another 12 points back.

Both Owens' top 10 rivals finished higher than the Australian in last night's results, making her task a little less cut-and-dry.

Kneller also dropped a place, going from 12th to 13th and is 24 points behind the current 10th ranked skier, Switzerland's Alex Fiva.

Both Australians finished third in their knock out finals, which is based on a system that allows only two of the four skiers from each race to advance to the next round.

Teammates Katya Crema and Sami Kennedy narrowly missed the 16-place women's finals, qualifying in 17th and 19th place, just outside the cut-off.

The team now heads to Branas in Sweden for the season's penultimate round on March 13.

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