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Downhill 2 medals ceremony - 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals,Sochi

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USA's Danelle Umstead, still badly bruised after crashing into the nets<br />in the first downhill event, was overjoyed to win gold the women's<br />visually impaired class in in 1:32.54, guided by her husband Rob.<br /><br /><br /><br />Russia's Alexandra Frantseva came second in 1:32.57 guided by Pavel<br />Zabotin, and Great Britain's Kelly Gallagher, guided by Charlotte<br />Evans, won bronze in 1:34.39.<br /><br /><br /><br />With her silver medal, Frantseva still holds on to the overall women's<br />title with 1,000 points. But with two races still to go, Germany's Anna<br />Schaffelhuber, is close behind with 980 points. Her teammate, standing<br />skier Andrea Rothfuss, who won gold on Saturday, is in third place<br />overall with 926 points.<br /><br /><br /><br />Rothfuss' gold medal was the first time during the last few weeks that<br />she has managed to ski faster than France's Marie Bochet. Rothfuss<br />finished in 1:29.20, whilst Bochet was less than a second behind in<br />1:30.19. The pair will battle it out agin in the super combined on<br />Sunday (10 March).<br /><br /><br /><br />In the women's sitting event, Schaffelhuber picked up her second gold<br />in 1:34.33. Austria's Claudia Loesch was second in 1:35.94 and USA's<br />Alana Nichols finished third in 1:37.90.<br /><br /><br /><br />In the men's overall rankings, standing skier Alexey Bugaev of Russia<br />leads the rankings with 840 points. He is closely followed by Austria's<br />Matthias Lanzinger with 800 points. Visually impaired skier, Jon<br />Santacana Maiztegui of Spain, who won his second gold in downhill on<br />Saturday guided by Miguel Galindo Garces, is in third place in the<br />overall men's rankings with 760 points.<br /><br /><br /><br />Santacana Maiztegui finished in 1:20.54. Italy's Alessandro Daldoss<br />guided by Davide Riva was second in 1:21.02 and USA's Mark Bathum,<br />guided by Slater Storey, finished third in 1:21.27.<br /><br /><br /><br />The men's standing event was even closer, with the top three just 0.2<br />seconds apart. France's Vincent Gauthier-Manuel won his second gold in<br />the discipline in 1:21.95.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lanzinger was second in 1:22.05 and Bugaev took bronze in 1:22.15.<br /><br /><br /><br />The men's sitting race was also a thriller with USA's Christopher<br />Devlin-Young taking his first gold of the season in 1:22.58.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Netherlands' Kees-Jan van der Klooster took silver in 1:23.38 and<br />France's Yohann Taberlet was third in 1:23.54.<br /><br /><br /><br />For full results, please visit the IPC Alpine Skiing results page:<br />http://www.paralympic.org/AlpineSkiing/Calendar<br /><br /><br /><br />The 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals Sochi is also a test event<br />for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. The event continues on<br />Sunday with the super combined.<br /><br /><br /><br />Fans can watch the races live on ParalympicSport.TV and follow the<br />results on @IPCAlpine on Twitter and Facebook.com/IPCAlpineSkiing.

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