Youth World Championship in St. Anton had a fantastic start for the Slovenians. Rok Ažnoh became the world junior champion in downhill.
He defeated all competitors convincingly, the Frenchman Alban Elezi Cannaferina was exactly half a second behind, the Swiss Livio Hiltbrand in third place, 82 hundredths of a second.
The second Slovenian representative Nejc Zidarn took 40th place, three seconds and three tenths behind.
Ažnoh is the third Slovenian skier to win the title of world champion, previously Rok Perk in 2005 and Boštjan Klinet in 2011.
In the girls’ category, where Ilka Štuhec was the champion in 2008, the gold medal was won by a Swiss woman Stefanie Globthree hundredths behind the Italian woman in second place Vicky Bernardibronze was won by a Norwegian woman Pernille Dyrstad Lydersen.
There were no Slovenian women at the start.
Source: Rtvslo
