N.Z. skiers well back
NZPA-Reuter Megeve, France Two New Zealand skiers, Christine Grant and Kate Rattray, finished sixtieth and sixty-second respectively in the last women’s World Cup downhill before the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. The event was won by Michela Figini, aged 17, of Switzerland, who clocked Imin 26.49 s to win by more than half a second from two Austrians, Elisabeth Kirchler (1:27.06) and Sylvia Eder (1:27.16). Grant was timed at 1:31.97 and Rattray at 1:33.24 over the
2110-metre course. Meanwhile, the Canadian, Steve Podborski confirmed his promise as an Olympic favourite with a sparkling win in the men’s World Ski Cup downhill race at Garmisch Partenkirchen, West Germany. Podborski clocked Imin 56.95 s over the 3320-metre course for his third successive victory on it, after wins in 1981 and 1982. There was no race last year. The Austrians, Erwin Resch and Franz Klammer, were placed second and third, with times of 1:57.20 and 1:57.44.
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