Velez-Zuzulová triumphed in Flachau

SLOVAK alpine ski racer Veronika Velez-Zuzulová overcame snowfall and a softened course to end a three-year wait for her third World Cup win on January 12.

(Source: TASR)

In difficult conditions due to snowfall, Velez-Zuzulová finished in an aggregate time of 1 minute, 46.58 seconds on the floodlit Hermann Maier World Cup Course to beat Šárka Strachová of the Czech Republic by 0.31.

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Frida Hansdotter finished 1.05 behind in third and retained her lead in the discipline standings, the Associated Press reported.

“Of course it was not easy,” Velez-Zuzulová said, as quoted by the SITA newswire. “I tried to stay concentrated, and I succeeded. The track in the second round was more difficult, but I did not have any other possibility then to ski aggressively. I apparently always win when there are many people.”

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It was Velez-Zuzulová’s third career win and her first in three years, when she won back-to-back races in Semmering, Austria, and Munich three days later.

Another Slovak Petra Vlhová finished sixth.

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