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  • Highlights from New Zealand Alpine Skiing and Performance

    Highlights from New Zealand Alpine Skiing and Performance

    New Zealand Alpine

    At Coronet Peak today, Jack Adams and Eliza Grigg were crowned the Alpine National Overall Combined Disciplines Champions.

    Today marked the third and final day of the National Alpine Championships, National Para Alpine Championships and the National Alpine Junior Championships, with athletes competing in Slalom to close out the event.

    Eliza Grigg, a Team Hutt athlete, has had a stellar National Championships campaign, earning a medal of each colour across the weekend. She finished first in Super-G on Friday, second in Giant Slalom on Saturday and third in Slalom today. Her performances over the three days resulted in her being crowned the women’s Overall Combined Disciplines Champion.

    “This is my first time winning the overall which I am super excited about, it’s been a lot of work,” Grigg said.

    Jack Adams, representing Coberger Academy, won today’s Slalom race and finished second in both Giant Slalom yesterday and Super-G on Friday. Off the back of his strong results across all disciplines, Adams was awarded the men’s Overall Combined Disciplines Championship trophy for the first time.

    “It is nice to get the overall, it’s a beautiful trophy,” Adams said. Reflecting on the Slalom race, he added, “It’s been a good competition with Willis this weekend and I prefer slalom, I know he prefers Giant Slalom, so I was hoping for a good race between us but unfortunately he straddled on the first run.”

    Willis Feasey, the 2018 Winter Olympian, won both the Super-G and Giant Slalom over the weekend but recorded a DNF in Slalom, placing him second overall.

    In the junior categories, Olivia Flight and Harrison Messenger were crowned the Junior Alpine National Overall Combined Disciplines Champions. Olivia, a Coberger Academy athlete, finished second in both Super-G and Giant Slalom and third in Slalom. Harrison, from the Wanaka Ski Team, enjoyed a dominant weekend, winning all three races to take out the men’s Junior Overall title.

    World Cup Slalom athlete Piera Hudson delivered a standout performance in the women’s National Slalom Championships, winning by more than four seconds.

    “First run, there was a little bit of a whoopsie, but I managed to recover and get back in there and then just had to go full charge to make up for it,” Hudson said.

    Jack Adams

    Paralympians and World Cup Para athletes Adam Hall and Corey Peters continued their strong form. Hall claimed his third gold medal of the weekend by winning the men’s standing National Para Slalom, while Peters secured his third victory in the men’s sitting category. Kirstie Fairhurst was crowned the women’s sitting National Para Slalom Champion after completing two successful runs.

    Today’s racing also doubled as a National Points race for under-14 and under-16 athletes. Their national champions will be crowned later this month at the Snowvision National Youth Championships, held at Cardrona from 25 September.

    Read more about this on Snowsports.co.nz

  • SapphireOne Alpine Ski Team Begins Phase Two Training at Coronet Peak

    SapphireOne Alpine Ski Team Begins Phase Two Training at Coronet Peak

    After two weeks skills and gate training at Round Hill Lake Tekapo and Mt Dobson the SapphireOne Alpine Ski Team split up as they leave the McKenzie country in South Canterbury. The team had a fantastic time in the region, even having time to go trout fishing, Warwick Crawford was pleased to catch some of New Zealand’s finest trout.

    Hugh McAdam and Warwick Crawford now head back to Australia to finish their year 12 studies, Hugh at The Scots College in NSW where he is the current captain of snow sports at the senior school, and Warwick at Mansfield Secondary College in Victoria.

    SapphireOne Alpine Ski Team split up as they leave the McKenzie country in South Canterbury

    Meanwhile Jack Adams heads down to Central Otago to join team member Theo Coates at the home of New Zealand Olympian Adam Barword in magnificent Queenstown.

    Jack has one week before heading home to Sydney, back to University of NWS (UNSW) for a week, then heads back to join the team in Queenstown. Theo will stay with Adam for two weeks before joining Jack and the rest of the team.

    Coronet Peak Queenstown offers a world class training facility unique in the Southern Hemisphere.  Ski legends such as Ted Leggity and Michaela Shiffrin regularly train here.

    SapphireOne Alpine Team for the upcoming New Zealand Championships

    Coronet Peak is the training base and mountain for New Zealand Olympians Adam Barwood, Willis Feasey, Alice Robinson and their coach Nils Coberger, and also past Olympian and former alpine skier  Annelise Coberger (skiing, 1992, ’94). Born in Christchurch, Annelise became the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to win a medal at the Winter Olympics when she won silver in the slalom at Albertville in France in 1992.

    The New Zealand Alpine team will all be training at Coronet Peak Queenstown over the coming weeks alongside our SapphireOne Alpine Team for the upcoming New Zealand Championships, to be held on the 12 to 15 August 2018. The New Zealand Alpine Ski Races are always well supported by a large range of international teams from some of the ski nations powerhouses such as the Austria Ski Team and the USA Ski Team.

    Ski legends such as Ted Leggity and Michaela Shiffrin regularly train here

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