Alexis Pinturault won the world CUP-combination

It may be a bit left to the top. But the Swedish fartherrarna got plenty of motivation from the home world CHAMPIONSHIPS in Åre.

Felix Monsén was 19th in super-G, 16th in downhill and squeezed to the end with tiondeplatsen in the combination. Despite a hard taped hand due to a broken little finger on training in Kitzbühel recently.

"I took some painkillers after inåkningen, it hurts when the rods slamming against your hand," says the swede.

with its störtloppsåk, which meant that he was 21. But fartspecialistens slalomåk was the better.

" I am impad of myself, I have never had such speed in the slalom. But I have come out in an incredibly good mood this week, have been glad, measure the good and the skiing has been super, " he says.

As expected, it was otherwise mainly slalomspecialisterna which accounted for upphämtningarna after the nedkortade the downhill. Alexis Pinturault drove, for example, up from the 24:e-site and it was likely the last world CHAMPIONSHIPS-gold in the branch, which in future championships look set to be replaced by a parallelltävling.

– There is a lot of work and time behind. A long and tough day, but with a very happy ending for me, " he says. I wasn't sure until it was clear, for you never know.

stood, however, slovenen Stefan Hadalin for. He was only 30th in the downhill, but climbed surprisingly to winning the silver medal, while austrian Marco Schwarz took the bronze.

Alexander Köll fell into place in the results list in the slalomen. But the 28-year-old was jubilant over the störtloppsdelen, where he was just 74 hundredths after the Italian star Dominik Paris and drove into tiondeplatsen.

– Slalomåket war was on. The substrate was a little worse than expected, but I fought me all the way, " says Köll, who eventually became the 21st. It was important for me to take me down in target, I wanted to have with me the score from the downhill race. Plan executed and a great day.

Köll, who was 20th in the super-G:n and 46: (a) in the downhill, now back home to Innsbruck for a mr of one foot, which is still not completely good after störtloppskraschen in Kitzbühel.

talking rather skiing than the damage after the home world CUP.

" I'm incredibly happy that I got to the world CUP:et so good as it went. I am still in pain, but I didn't want to go out with it in the media, " says Köll.I don't want to talk about how much pain I have, I want to talk about the results and about skiing, that is why we are here.

Olle Sundin became the 30th and Zack Monsén 38.

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