Russia dominates in Speed

Carlos Granja from Ecuador and Daria Kan from Russia, who won after a false start, are the new Junior Speed World Champions. Beside the false start, there were a total of two falls and one big error during the semifinal making it not so exciting to watch. Complete results What about adding like two seconds or so for a false start, like in Paralell slalom after a fall, in order to avoid anti-klimax? Claire Buhrfeind, who won the Boulder event was #4, meaning that sheis the best Combined climber overall after two disciplines. In practice, this also make her a contender for a medal in Tokyo 2020. Her best time was 9.17 meaning she could make finals also in Speed World Cups and she is well ahead of other top Combined climbers. Stefani Jacopo from Italy and Polina Kulagina from Russia won among the Youth B, where all Top-4 girls were from Russia. In total, Russia got eight of the twelve awarded medals today.