Philipp Schoch (26), the Defending Olympic Champion defeated his older brother Simon (27) who got silver. Philipp became the first ever two-time gold medal winner in Olympic snowboarding. The Swiss had the top four in the World Cup rankings before the Torino Olympics — with Simon and Philipp Schoch ranked 1st and 2nd.
Austrian Siegfried Grabner took bronze.
Tyler Jewell, the only American in the event, made the finals by finishing ninth in morning qualifying, but lost to Slovenian Dejan Kosir in the first round of heat races.
Chandra Crawford - a 22 years old Canadian girl wearing tiny pigtails - pulled off an upset in the women’s 1.1km sprint Wednesday, skating through the finish for Canada’s first cross-country gold medal of these Winter Olympic Games. Even though she has only competed in six World Cup races in her life, she was able to finish in 2 minutes, 12.3 seconds, seven-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Claudia Kuenzel of Germany, while Russia’s Alena Sidko took the bronze. The favorites - Swedish and Russian skiers (including the defending Olympic champion Julija Tchepalova, who won gold in the team relay Saturday) all disappointed. Second Canadian - Beckie Scott - was fourth in the four-skier final. She was the fastest in the qualifying round.
Sweden took two medals in the men's sprint. Bjoern Lind of Sweeden finished the men’s race in 2:26.5 to beat silver medalist Roddy Darragon of France, who was six-tenths of a second back. Thobias Fredriksson, got the bronze.
Three Italians reached the semifinals in the men’s race, with "Zorro" - Cristian Zorzi advancing to the four-skier final, but he unforunately missed the podium and placed fourth. He's already gotten gold - on Sunday - being the anchor of Italy’s winning 4x10K relay team.
Anja Paerson finally won her Olympic gold medal with a pair of runs she dominated, whike her arch-rival - Janica Kostelic of Croatia - failed to win a medal for the first time in her last seven Olympic events. Kostelic was 4th; Austrians Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild were 2nd and 3rd, earning the unprecedented 100th and 101st Olympic Alpine medals for their country. American Koznick was skiing with torn ACL but only in the first race - she withdrew from the the second leg.Another great day for Canada's speedskater Cindy Klassen - another medal - gold in 1,500 M race. Silver also went to Canada - Kristina Groves. While Canadian men speedskaters disappointed, the girls have very good Olympics in Torino, espacially Klassen.
Results:
Cross-country skiing - 1.5 K sprint - Men's
Gold Bjoern Lind, Sweden
Silver Roddy Darragon, France
Bronze Thobias Fredriksson, Sweden
Cross-country skiing - 1.5K sprint - Women's
Gold Chandra Crawford, Canada
Silver Claudia Kuenzel, Germany
Bronze Alena Sidko, Russia
Snowboarding - Giant slalom - Men's
Gold Philipp Schoch, Switzerland
Silver Simon Schoch, Switzerland
Bronze Siegfried Grabner, Austria
Alpine skiing - Slalom - Women's
Gold Anja Paerson, Sweden
Silver Nicole Hosp, Austria
Bronze Marlies Schild, Austria
Speedskating - 1,500 M - Women's
Gold Cindy Klassen, Canada
Silver Kristina Groves, Canada
Bronze Ireen Wust, Netherlands
Short track - 3,000 M relay - Women's
Gold Choi Eun-kyung - Jeon Da-hye - Jin Sun-yu - Byun Chun-sa, South Korea
Silver Alanna Kraus - Anouk Leblanc-Boucher - Tania Vicent - Kalyna Roberge, Canada
Bronze Arianna Fontana - Marta Capurso - Katia Zini - Mara Zini, Italy
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