Alpine athletes compete across two continents

Our alpine athletes were in action across two continents over the past week  - Ski Cross in Pitztal Valley (AUT) and Alpine at Levi (FIN) and Copper Mountain (USA).

Ski Cross

Sami-Kennedy Sim, Robbie Morrison, Anton Grimus, Doug Crawford and Lee Rolls represented Australia at the Austrian National Championships and Europa Cup in Pitzal.

Due to poor weather and high wind, the event format for the National Championships was adjusted so that a sprint race would be run in the valley.

The field was very strong with many international World Cup athletes using the race as a warm-up to the season proper.

Morrison and Kennedy-Sim were among the standout performers, with Morrison taking home a silver medal and Kennedy-Sim finishing in fifth place.

Grimus finished 28th, Crawford 42nd and Rolls narrowly avoided a crash to finish in 83rd position.

In the Europa Cup event Kennedy-Sim backed up her previous solid performance by taking out fifth place, while Morrison had another outstanding result claiming 12th position, with Grimus 29th, Crawford in 45th and Rolls 63rd.

Alpine Racing

Competing at his first World Cup Slalom event, Louis Muhlen-Shulte was confronted with difficult conditions including heavy fog on the course and an equipment issue. Despite walking away with a DNF, Muhlen-Shulte has obtained valuable competition experience that will serve him well as the season continues.

Henry Heaydon represented Australia at the NorAm slalom at  Copper Mountain, finishing 25th at the end of the two-day competition.