NOTES: COL PRINT LOCATION: GARMISCH / PARTENKIRCHEN TITLE: MEN'S SLALOM SERVICED DATE: 02/06/78 NO: LNC 90299 DATE SHOT: 02/05/78 LENGTH: 63 FT SECONDS: 101 SOUND: MUTE DATE OF ARRIVAL:
NOTES: COL PRINT
LOCATION: GARMISCH / PARTENKIRCHEN
TITLE: MEN'S SLALOM
SERVICED DATE: 02/06/78
NO: LNC 90299
DATE SHOT: 02/05/78
LENGTH: 63 FT
SECONDS: 101
SOUND: MUTE
DATE OF ARRIVAL:
FILM SHOWS: FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLACE TAKERS IN THE MEN'S SLALOM AT GARMISC-PARTENKIRCHEN, WEST GERMANY.
LEAD IN: SWEDEN'S INGEMAR STENMARK SNATCHED THE MEN'S WORLD SLALOM TITLE AT GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, WEST GERMANY, ON SUNDAY (5 FEBRUARY).
HIS WIN BROUGHT HIM HIS SECOND GOLD MEDAL IN FOUR DAYS AND BROUGHT THE CHAMPIONSHIPS TO A CLOSE.
ANOTHER TITLE DECIDED ON SUNDAY WAS THE COMBINATION EVENT WHICH WENT TO ANDREAS WENZEL, GIVING LICHTENSTEIN ITS FIFTH GOLD MEDAL IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
STENMARK CAME FROM BEHIND WITH A FAULTLESS SECOND RUN TO WIN THE SLALOM EVENT.
FEET R/SECS
4 6 GV SLOPE AND VIEW
25 40 MS STENMARK DOWN (4 SHOTS)
27 43 MS SCOREBOARD
40 64 MS FROMMELT DOWN (3 SHOTS)
57 91 LS GROS DOWN (3 SHOTS)
60 96 MCU STENMARK WAVES TO CROWD
61 98 GV CROWD
63 101 MS FROMMELT AND GROSS HOIST STENMARK
COMMENTARY: THE SLOPE WAS SO STEEP AND ICY THAT 56 OF THE 102 STARTERS WERE ELIMINATED. STENMARK, WHO ON THURSDAY WON THE MEN'S GIANT SLALOM BY MORE THAN TWO SECONDS HAD A HARDER JOB TO TAKE THE TITLE AWAY FROM ITALY'S PIERO GROS ON SUNDAY.
BUT ON THE SECOND FLATTER COURSE STEN MARK GLIDED THROUGH THE 62 GATES ALMOST A SECOND FASTER THAN GROS.
THE SWEDE'S TIMES WERE 51.56 AND 47.98 FOR A TOTAL OF 99.54.
STENMARK'S DOUBLE SLALOM WIN PUT HIM ALONGSIDE FORMER GREATS LIKE GUSTAVO THOENI, JEAN-CLAUDE KILLY, TONY SAILE AND STEIN ERIKSEN - THE ONLY MEN TO HAVE ACHIEVED THE FEAT. HE AND AUSTRIA'S ANNEMARIE MOSER-PROELL EMERGED AS THIS YEAR'S OUTSTANDING CONTESTANT - BOTH WITH DOUBLE WINS.
THIRD IN THE SLALOM EVENT WAS PAUL FROMMELT OF LICHTENSTEIN. HE TOOK THE BRONZE MEDAL AFTER AUSTRIAN FAVOURITE KLAUS HEIDEGGER HOOKED HIS LEFT SKI ON A GATE HALF- WAY THROUGH THE SECOND RUN.
NEVERTHELESS AUSTRIA WITH SEVEN GOLD MEDALS OVERALL AND FOUR OF THE EIGHT GOLDS AT STAKE, LEFT AS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TEAM, WHILE ITALY, FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES WENT HOME WITH JUST ONE MEDAL EACH.
ITALY'S PIERO GROSS, REVELING IN THE STEEP ICY CONDITIONS, POSTED THE FASTEST TIME IN THE FIRST HEAT OF THE SLALOM, CLOCKING 51,29 SECONDS - 27 SECONDS AHEAD OF STENMARK'S FIRST-RUN SCORE.
HIS TIME FOR THE SECOND HEAT WAS 48.91 BUT STENMARK COUNTERED WITH A SIZZLING 47.98 TO TAKE THE TITLE. GROSS PUT HIS DEFEAT DOWN TO HIS SECOND RUN. HE SAID HE HELD BACK TOO MUCH IN THE MIDDLE SECTION.
THE VICTOR STENMARK, WHO WAS ODDS-ON FAVOURITE FOR BOTH SLALOM EVENTS SAID IT HAD BEEN AS MUCH A VICTORY OVER HIS NERVES AS HIS RIVALS. HE WAS HOISTED HIGH BY THE RUNNERS UP IN RECOGNITION OF HIS ACHIEVEMENT.