World Cup finals team event: Austria heads

Austria led through the first round of the team event at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide. Only two men and two women raced one super-G each in the morning and slalom heats latter in the day at the Silvano Beltrametti course, while the top racers were on off to prepare for the season’s final two individual races scheduled for the weekend. Austria ended the heats for the super-G with seven points while second placed Canada managed eleven and Switzerland third with fourteen, in a penalty points system were the team with the lowest points total wins. Andrea Fischbacher and Mario Scheiber were fastest in the first and the fourth heats while Canada’s Francois Bourque bettered the rest in the second only to be closely followed by Christoph Gruber, Marie Marchand-Arvier of France topped in the third heat. Read: Eurosport