Top skiers in giant slalom

Press, 25 July 1986, Page 36

Top skiers in giant slalom

Alpine ski-racing will get under way for the 1986 New Zealand season with the Hertz Early Bird giant slalom event at Mount Hutt tomorrow.

Among the 47 entries received to yesterday were those of two national A team members, Graeme Goodwin and Kate Rattray, both of Canterbury. Goodwin is at present training at Coronet Peak, Queenstown.

The other top men making the trip to Mount Hutt for the race include five B team men — Nick Boyer (Queenstown), Nils Coberger, lan McLean, Robert Scelly and Stefan Crawford (all Canterbury) — who were based in Yugoslavia during the northern winter. Their

form will be watched with interest

Also contesting the giant slalom, a two-run event, on Mount Hutt’s F.I.S. “race hill," is a young American, Robb Parker, who has returned to New Zealand for the southern winter. Apart from Rattray, the women’s field Includes the crack Canterbury quartet of Juliet Johnston, Juliet Satterthwaite, Adele Coberger and Bergendy Cooke, all from the national B team, and the promising Anna Keeling. After their training and racing in North America during the northern winter it will be interesting to see how close these racers can get to Rattray, the national women’s champion.