Ganong aces 2nd training run on fast Birds of Prey

Give the man an early start number and let him set the pace and Travis Ganong will ski with the best of them. In fact, in the second of three training runs ahead of Friday's Birds of Prey Downhill at Beaver Creek, Ganong, the first racer out of the start house skied clean and was the fastest of the day.

There were a number of racers, including Klaus Kroell, the 2012 downhill champ, and fastest in the first training run, who skipped the run, electing for a day of rest instead to the rigors of a testing run down this difficult course. But that shouldn't underscore Ganong's showing. He said he, according to plan, took more risk than he had in the opening training Tuesday, particularly, he said, high on the course. He carried his speed all the way to the finish.

The fact the course is in near perfect shape didn't hurt that effort at all. “You can do whatever you want,” said Ganong. “You can really charge if you want or set up if you want, it's really forgiving.”

And fast. His time of 1:41.38 would rank as the fastest race time for a full length test of any in the last five years. And, Ganong said, it feels it.

“It's extremely fast this year, the fastest in my four years of coming here. Off the Redtail jump you can really feel the speed.”

Aksel Lund Svindal, the winner of the first two speed races of the season last weekend at Lake Louise finished off the pace in 17th. He wasn't that concerned, but had hoped to be a bit closer to the front of the pack. “One point seven,” he said of the time between he and Ganong, “is probably too far back.”

Italian Siegmar Klotz had the second fastest time, just under three tenths off of Ganong and Austrian Joachim Puchner had the third fastest time, eight tenths back.

Marco Sullivan, still a bit euphoric after a dazzling podium result at Lake Louise, cruised in seventh while the Canadians had to be content with Erik Guay in 14th and Ben Thomsen 15th.

Ganong had not gotten an early start number in any of the bib draws at Lake Louise, starting well back in the top 30. Here, in the second training run, he drew start one, and he took advantage.

Gepa photo

Beaver Creek (USA)
Training
Men's Downhill
Nov 28, 2012

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Total Time	FIS Points
1	1	530874	GANONG Travis	1988	USA	1:41.38
2	5	294277	KLOTZ Siegmar	1987	ITA	1:41.67
3	8	51327	PUCHNER Joachim	1987	AUT	1:42.18
4	4	192932	FAYED Guillermo	1985	FRA	1:42.41
5	20	293006	INNERHOFER Christof	1984	ITA	1:42.43
6	12	50742	REICHELT Hannes	1980	AUT	1:42.44
7	26	533131	SULLIVAN Marco	1980	USA	1:42.48
8	6	511313	JANKA Carlo	1986	SUI	1:42.54
9	28	201811	STECHERT Tobias	1985	GER	1:42.57
10	9	291459	PARIS Dominik	1989	ITA	1:42.64
11	22	560447	SPORN Andrej	1981	SLO	1:42.66
12	23	511139	KUENG Patrick	1984	SUI	1:42.81
13	11	510727	DEFAGO Didier	1977	SUI	1:42.94
14	16	102263	GUAY Erik	1981	CAN	1:43.00
15	13	103271	THOMSEN Benjamin	1987	CAN	1:43.14
15	7	421483	JANSRUD Kjetil	1985	NOR	1:43.14
17	15	421328	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	1982	NOR	1:43.16
18	19	192746	THEAUX Adrien	1984	FRA	1:43.17
19	2	292455	FILL Peter	1982	ITA	1:43.21
20	68	530939	WEIBRECHT Andrew	1986	USA	1:43.31
21	3	511529	GISIN Marc	1988	SUI	1:43.35
22	53	193034	BOUILLOT Alexandre	1985	FRA	1:43.41
23	39	561067	PERKO Rok	1985	SLO	1:43.42
24	17	191740	CLAREY Johan	1981	FRA	1:43.50
25	25	191964	POISSON David	1982	FRA	1:43.53
26	42	200379	SANDER Andreas	1989	GER	1:43.56
27	43	51332	SCHEIBER Florian	1987	AUT	1:43.63
28	77	934643	GOLDBERG Jared	1991	USA	1:43.78
29	49	293550	MARSAGLIA Matteo	1985	ITA	1:43.81
30	31	180570	ROMAR Andreas	1989	FIN	1:43.82
31	27	510890	ZURBRIGGEN Silvan	1981	SUI	1:43.92
32	56	561216	KLINE Bostjan	1991	SLO	1:44.04
33	29	191591	BERTRAND Yannick	1980	FRA	1:44.07
34	37	53981	KROELL Johannes	1991	AUT	1:44.10
35	14	51215	BAUMANN Romed	1986	AUT	1:44.14
36	59	501439	HEDIN Douglas	1990	SWE	1:44.25
37	52	194190	ROGER Brice	1990	FRA	1:44.36
38	41	202059	FERSTL Josef	1988	GER	1:44.53
39	46	533866	NYMAN Steven	1982	USA	1:44.57
39	33	380260	KOSTELIC Ivica	1979	CRO	1:44.57
41	18	102271	HUDEC Jan	1981	CAN	1:44.60
42	64	561217	KOSI Klemen	1991	SLO	1:44.63
43	63	491129	TERRA Ferran	1987	SPA	1:44.65
44	80	103512	FRISCH Jeffrey	1984	CAN	1:44.66
44	35	560332	JERMAN Andrej	1978	SLO	1:44.66
46	67	380292	ZRNCIC-DIM Natko	1986	CRO	1:44.72
46	62	531452	BIESEMEYER Thomas	1989	USA	1:44.72
48	45	6530319	COCHRAN-SIEGLE Ryan	1992	USA	1:44.75
49	60	510747	GRUENENFELDER Tobias	1977	SUI	1:44.81
50	24	201606	KEPPLER Stephan	1983	GER	1:44.84
51	48	103385	PRIDY Conrad	1988	CAN	1:44.86
52	54	930024	MAPLE Wiley	1990	USA	1:45.00
52	38	511142	LUEOEND Vitus	1984	SUI	1:45.00
54	70	220874	BALDWIN TJ	1990	GBR	1:45.06
54	65	103612	PRIDY Morgan	1990	CAN	1:45.06
54	50	511634	SPESCHA Christian	1989	SUI	1:45.06
57	69	491151	DE LA CUESTA Paul	1988	SPA	1:45.11
58	76	511352	VILETTA Sandro	1986	SUI	1:45.20
59	47	53968	BERTHOLD Frederic	1991	AUT	1:45.22
60	44	102899	OSBORNE-PARADIS Manuel	1984	CAN	1:45.59
61	61	400281	VAN HEEK Marvin	1991	NED	1:45.69
62	66	481705	GLEBOV Alexander	1983	RUS	1:45.75
63	71	421650	BJERKESTRAND Iver	1987	NOR	1:46.04
64	55	54005	STRIEDINGER Otmar	1991	AUT	1:46.05
65	74	510997	BERTHOD Marc	1983	SUI	1:46.06
66	73	934568	RUBIE Brennan	1991	USA	1:46.10
67	75	220695	CRAWFORD Douglas	1987	GBR	1:46.75
68	83	511638	TUMLER Thomas	1989	SUI	1:47.39
69	36	102873	KUCERA John	1984	CAN	1:47.71
70	82	481054	MURAVYEV Ivan	1989	RUS	1:48.19
71	85	561214	DEBELAK Tilen	1991	SLO	1:49.93
72	79	511852	CAVIEZEL Gino	1992	SUI	1:50.16

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