Grass ski world championship 2007

The 15th Grass Ski World Championship took place from September 6th to 9th, 2007 in Olešnice v Orlických horách in the Czech Republic . For the first time, a super combination was held and no longer calculated from the results of slalom and super G as since 1987.

Attendees

76 athletes (61 men and 15 women) from nine nations took part in the World Championship (the number of men and women in brackets):

•  Chinese Taipei (1 + 1)
•  Germany (4 + 2)
•  Iran (7 + 1)
•  Italy (10 + 2)
•  Japan (3 + 1)
•  Austria (4 + 2)
•  Switzerland (7 + 2)
•  Slovakia (2 + 1)
•  Czech Republic (23 + 3)

The most successful participant was the Swiss Nadja Vogel , who won all four competitions. In the men's category, the Italian Fausto Cerentin and the Czech Jan Němec each won two gold medals. With the slalom silver medal of the Japanese Yukiyo Shintani , a medal did not go to Europe for the first time.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Switzerland	4th	-	-	4th
2	Italy	2	3	4th	9
3	Czech Republic	2	1	2	5
4th	Austria	-	2	1	3
5	Japan	-	1	-	1
	Slovakia	-	1	-	1
7th	Germany	-	-	1	1

Results gentlemen

slalom

space	Surname	country	Time 1.	Time 2.	total
01	Jan Němec	CZE	24.86 s	26.22 s	51.08 s
02	Fausto Cerentin	ITA	25.08 s	26.38 s	51.46 s
03	Riccardo Lorenzone	ITA	25.27 s	26.27 s	51.54 s
04th	Michael Stocker	AUT	25.31 s	26.61 s	51.92 s
05	Edoardo wife	ITA	25.63 s	26.66 s	52.29 s
06th	Michal Mačát	CZE	26.04 s	27.00 s	53.04 s
07th	Stefan Portmann	SUI	25.94 s	27.37 s	53.31 s
08th	Jiří Fuchs	CZE	26.22 s	27.44 s	53.66 s
09	Florian Göldner	GER	26.04 s	27.66 s	53.70 s
10	Manuel De Zan	ITA	26.43 s	27.28 s	53.71 s
11	Václav Srb	CZE	26.43 s	27.36 s	53.79 s
12	Mirko Hüppi	SUI	26.07 s	27.84 s	53.91 s
13	Aleš Mlíčka	CZE	26.46 s	27.62 s	54.08 s
14th	Domenic Senn	SUI	26.18 s	28.13 s	54.31 s
15th	Mario Matter	SUI	26.71 s	27.71 s	54.42 s
16	Jacob rest	AUT	27.08 s	28.10 s	55.18 s
17th	Lukáš Kolouch	CZE	27.36 s	28.55 s	55.91 s
18th	Rishu Okada	JPN	27.46 s	28.55 s	56.01 s
19th	Takuya Asukai	JPN	27.28 s	28.85 s	56.13 s
20th	Daniel Dejori	ITA	27.49 s	28.77 s	56.26 s
21st	Lukáš Vecheta	CZE	28.09 s	28.99 s	57.08 s
22nd	Alidad Saveh Shemshaki	IRN	27.91 s	29.33 s	57.24 s
23	Michael Krückel	AUT	28.37 s	30.03 s	58.40 s
24	Timotej Oravec	SVK	28.51 s	30.13 s	58.64 s
25th	Andrea Notaris	ITA	32.96 s	29.62 s	1: 02.58 min
26th	Martin Máca	CZE	28.96 s	44.80 s	1: 13.76 min

Date: September 9, 2007 Start time: 10:00 am / 2:00 pm Of the 57 runners who started, 28 dropped out and three more were disqualified; 26 runners (46 percent) were included in the ranking. Eliminated in the first run (19): Jindřich Jež ( CZE ), Jan Gardavský ( CZE ), Michal Pohl ( CZE ), Peter Paukovits ( AUT ), Hossein Kalhor (1984) ( IRN ), Martin Soltík ( CZE ), Marco Manser ( SUI ), Yashima Tetsuya ( JPN ) , Franz Seiz ( GER ), David Toman ( CZE ), Michal Sklenář ( CZE ), Michael Bernshausen ( GER ), Fabrizio Rottigni ( ITA ), Martin Štěpánek ( CZE ), Lukáš Ohrádka ( SVK ), Lukáš Brýdl ( CZE ), Pietro Guerini ( ITA ), Mahmood Gholami ( IRN ), Seyed Mojtaba Seyd ( IRN ) Disqualified in the first run (2): Jiří Russwurm ( CZE ), Šimon Vojta ( CZE ) Eliminated in the second run (9): Pavel Fic ( CZE ), Hossein Kalhor (1982) ( IRN ), Rahmatollah Moghdid ( IRN ), Benjamin Bennett ( GER ), Beat Krummenacher ( SUI ), Lorenzo Gritti ( ITA ), Seyed Yasser Seyd ( IRN ), Michal Klimeš ( CZE ), Mathias Inniger ( SUI ) Disqualified in the second run (1): Jakub Nekvapil ( CZE ) Not started in the first run (3): David Myslivec ( CZE ), Stefano Sartori ( ITA ), Ching-Wen Yeh ( TPE )

Giant slalom

space	Surname	country	Time 1.	Time 2.	total
01	Fausto Cerentin	ITA	29.74 s	29.10 s	58.84 s
02	Jan Němec	CZE	30.06 s	29.25 s	59.31 s
03	Edoardo wife	ITA	30.17 s	29.36 s	59.53 s
04th	Michal Mačát	CZE	30.23 s	29.46 s	59.69 s
05	Martin Štěpánek	CZE	30.44 s	29.43 s	59.87 s
06th	Jindřich Jež	CZE	30.35 s	29.62 s	59.97 s
07th	Michael Stocker	AUT	30.62 s	29.63 s	1: 00.25 min
08th	Florian Göldner	GER	30.72 s	29.59 s	1: 00.31 min
09	Jiří Russwurm	CZE	30.50 s	29.89 s	1: 00.39 min
10	Benjamin Bennett	GER	30.85 s	29.63 s	1: 00.48 min
11	Aleš Mlíčka	CZE	30.69 s	29.98 s	1: 00.67 min
12	Jan Gardavský	CZE	30.89 s	29.82 s	1: 00.71 min
13	Mathias Inniger	SUI	30.79 s	30.07 s	1: 00.86 min
14th	Pietro Guerini	ITA	30.99 s	30.17 s	1: 01.16 min
15th	Stefan Portmann	SUI	31.00 s	30.17 s	1: 01.17 min
16	Marco Manser	SUI	31.12 s	30.42 s	1: 01.54 min
17th	Domenic Senn	SUI	31.42 s	30.16 s	1: 01.58 min
18th	Václav Srb	CZE	31.26 s	30.33 s	1: 01.59 min
19th	Riccardo Lorenzone	ITA	30.43 s	31.32 s	1: 01.75 min
20th	Lorenzo Gritti	ITA	31.56 s	30.51 s	1: 02.07 min
21st	Peter Paukovits	AUT	31.78 s	30.61 s	1: 02.39 min
22nd	Michael Bernshausen	GER	31.59 s	30.91 s	1: 02.50 min
23	Mirko Hüppi	SUI	31.74 s	30.81 s	1: 02.55 min
24	Tetsuya Yashima	JPN	31.16 s	31.57 s	1: 02.73 min
25th	Daniel Dejori	ITA	31.91 s	30.84 s	1: 02.75 min
26th	Alidad Saveh Shemshaki	IRN	31.82 s	31.10 s	1: 02.92 min
26th	Takuya Asukai	JPN	31.61 s	31.28 s	1: 02.89 min
28	Hossein Kalhor (1984)	IRN	32.01 s	30.94 s	1: 02.95 min
29	Lukáš Kolouch	CZE	32.12 s	30.99 s	1: 03.11 min
30th	Lukáš Brýdl	CZE	32.09 s	31.30 s	1: 03.39 min
31	Jacob rest	AUT	32.22 s	31.42 s	1: 03.64 min
32	Andrea Notaris	ITA	32.06 s	31.59 s	1: 03.65 min
33	Fabrizio Rottigni	ITA	32.09 s	31.65 s	1: 03.74 min
34	Beat Krummenacher	SUI	32.26 s	31.41 s	1: 03.77 min
35	Lukáš Ohrádka	SVK	32.91 s	31.10 s	1: 04.01 min
36	Jiří Fuchs	CZE	32.49 s	31.58 s	1: 04.07 min
37	Lukáš Vecheta	CZE	32.65 s	31.51 s	1: 04.16 min
38	Michal Sklenář	CZE	32.51 s	32.20 s	1: 04.71 min
39	Michal Klimeš	CZE	32.56 s	32.24 s	1: 04.80 min
40	Rishu Okada	JPN	31.37 s	33.78 s	1: 05.15 min
41	Pavel Fic	CZE	32.99 s	32.51 s	1: 05.50 min
42	Timotej Oravec	SVK	33.29 s	32.28 s	1: 05.57 min
43	Michal Pohl	CZE	33.03 s	32.74 s	1: 05.77 min
44	Seyed Mojtaba Seyd	IRN	32.89 s	33.96 s	1: 06.85 min

Date: September 8, 2007 Start time: 10:00 am / 2:00 pm Of the 61 runners who started, three dropped out and a further 13 were disqualified, one runner did not start in the second run; 44 runners (72 percent) were included in the ranking. Disqualified in the first run (4): Ching-Wen Yeh ( TPE ), Seyed Yasser Seyd ( IRN ), David Toman ( CZE ), Rahmatollah Moghdid ( IRN ) Eliminated in the second run (3): Michael Krückel ( AUT ), Franz Seiz ( GER ), Manuel De Zan ( ITA ) Disqualified in the second run (9): David Myslivec ( CZE ), Jakub Nekvapil ( CZE ), Hossein Kalhor (1982) ( IRN ), Martin Horicky ( CZE ), Stefano Sartori ( ITA ), Šimon Vojta ( CZE ), Mahmood Gholami ( IRN ), Martin Soltík ( CZE ) , Martin Máca ( CZE ) Not started in the second run (1): Mario Matter ( SUI )

Super G

space	Surname	country	time
01	Fausto Cerentin	ITA	29.27 s
02	Stefano Sartori	ITA	29.38 s
03	Jan Němec	CZE	29.57 s
04th	Riccardo Lorenzone	ITA	30.10 s
04th	Edoardo wife	ITA	30.10 s
06th	Stefan Portmann	SUI	30.46 s
07th	Jan Gardavský	CZE	30.50 s
08th	Martin Štěpánek	CZE	30.54 s
09	Jindřich Jež	CZE	30.60 s
10	Pietro Guerini	ITA	30.63 s
11	Michael Stocker	AUT	30.68 s
12	Jiří Russwurm	CZE	30.69 s
13	Benjamin Bennett	GER	30.77 s
14th	Václav Srb	CZE	30.87 s
15th	Manuel De Zan	ITA	31.04 s
16	Michal Mačát	CZE	31.14 s
17th	Mathias Inniger	SUI	31.35 s
17th	Aleš Mlíčka	CZE	31.35 s
19th	Michael Bernshausen	GER	31.46 s
20th	Florian Göldner	GER	31.49 s
21st	Domenic Senn	SUI	31.62 s
22nd	Mario Matter	SUI	31.67 s
23	Hossein Kalhor (1984)	IRN	31.78 s
24	Alidad Saveh Shemshaki	IRN	31.86 s
25th	Lorenzo Gritti	ITA	31.88 s
26th	Hossein Kalhor (1982)	IRN	31.99 s
27	Lukáš Brýdl	CZE	32.08 s
28	Peter Paukovits	AUT	32.11 s
29	Daniel Dejori	ITA	32.17 s
30th	Lukáš Kolouch	CZE	32.29 s
31	Tetsuya Yashima	JPN	32.48 s
31	Lukáš Ohrádka	SVK	32.48 s
33	Mirko Hüppi	SUI	32.56 s
34	Michael Krückel	AUT	32.59 s
35	Jacob rest	AUT	32.61 s
36	Andrea Notaris	ITA	32.62 s
37	Jakub Nekvapil	CZE	32.68 s
38	Rishu Okada	JPN	32.75 s
39	Martin Máca	CZE	32.92 s
40	Marco Manser	SUI	33.00 s
41	Seyed Yasser Seyd	IRN	33.08 s
42	Fabrizio Rottigni	ITA	33.17 s
42	Beat Krummenacher	SUI	33.17 s
44	Mahmood Gholami	IRN	33.18 s
45	Lukáš Vecheta	CZE	33.26 s
46	Rahmatollah Moghdid	IRN	33.39 s
47	Pavel Fic	CZE	33.43 s
48	Franz Seiz	GER	33.79 s
49	Takuya Asukai	JPN	33.80 s
50	Michal Klimeš	CZE	33.85 s
51	Seyed Mojtaba Seyd	IRN	34.01 s
52	Michal Pohl	CZE	34.02 s
53	Jiří Fuchs	CZE	34.13 s
54	Michal Sklenář	CZE	34.17 s
55	Timotej Oravec	SVK	34.25 s
56	Martin Soltík	CZE	34.64 s
57	David Myslivec	CZE	34.81 s
58	Šimon Vojta	CZE	35.62 s
59	Ching-Wen Yeh	TPE	40.66 s
60	David Toman	CZE	41.25 s

Date: September 7, 2007 Start time: 10:00 a.m. All 60 runners who started were included in the ranking. Not started (2): Martin Horicky ( CZE ), Philipp Gschwandtner ( AUT )

Super combination

space	Surname	country	Time SG	Time SL	total
01	Jan Němec	CZE	26.10 s	25.17 s	51.27 s
02	Fausto Cerentin	ITA	26.20 s	25.64 s	51.84 s
03	Edoardo wife	ITA	25.24 s	25.94 s	52.18 s
04th	Martin Štěpánek	CZE	26.94 s	25.59 s	52.53 s
05	Benjamin Bennett	GER	26.78 s	25.84 s	52.62 s
06th	Lorenzo Gritti	ITA	27.16 s	25.51 s	52.67 s
07th	Michael Bernshausen	GER	26.96 s	25.79 s	52.75 s
08th	Michal Mačát	CZE	27.28 s	25.54 s	52.82 s
09	Jan Gardavský	CZE	26.92 s	25.91 s	52.83 s
10	Manuel De Zan	ITA	27.10 s	25.87 s	52.97 s
11	Jiří Russwurm	CZE	26.93 s	26.14 s	53.07 s
12	Pietro Guerini	ITA	27.10 s	26.17 s	53.27 s
13	Stefan Portmann	SUI	26.83 s	26.61 s	53.44 s
14th	Michael Stocker	AUT	27.53 s	25.92 s	53.45 s
15th	Florian Göldner	GER	27.59 s	26.16 s	53.75 s
16	Tetsuya Yashima	JPN	27.75 s	26.62 s	54.37 s
17th	Peter Paukovits	AUT	27.79 s	26.60 s	54.39 s
18th	Václav Srb	CZE	27.62 s	26.86 s	54.48 s
19th	Mirko Hüppi	SUI	27.49 s	27.21 s	54.70 s
20th	Andrea Notaris	ITA	27.55 s	27.23 s	54.78 s
21st	Domenic Senn	SUI	27.67 s	27.25 s	54.92 s
22nd	Mathias Inniger	SUI	27.46 s	27.55 s	55.01 s
22nd	Hossein Kalhor (1982)	IRN	28.10 s	26.91 s	55.01 s
24	Aleš Mlíčka	CZE	28.18 s	26.84 s	55.02 s
25th	Lukáš Kolouch	CZE	28.10 s	27.00 s	55.10 s
26th	Lukáš Brýdl	CZE	27.61 s	27.59 s	55.20 s
27	Mario Matter	SUI	27.76 s	27.50 s	55.26 s
28	Marco Manser	SUI	28.22 s	27.10 s	55.32 s
29	Takuya Asukai	JPN	28.45 s	26.99 s	55.44 s
30th	Jakub Nekvapil	CZE	28.22 s	27.49 s	55.71 s
31	Daniel Dejori	ITA	27.84 s	27.95 s	55.79 s
32	Fabrizio Rottigni	ITA	28.10 s	27.71 s	55.81 s
33	Rishu Okada	JPN	28.33 s	27.62 s	55.95 s
34	Lukáš Ohrádka	SVK	27.69 s	28.28 s	55.97 s
35	Jacob rest	AUT	28.54 s	27.53 s	56.07 s
36	Mahmood Gholami	IRN	29.10 s	27.24 s	56.34 s
37	Rahmatollah Moghdid	IRN	28.21 s	28.46 s	56.67 s
38	Beat Krummenacher	SUI	28.32 s	28.50 s	56.82 s
39	Michael Krückel	AUT	28.10 s	28.80 s	56.90 s
40	Alidad Saveh Shemshaki	IRN	28.66 s	28.23 s	56.89 s
41	Michal Klimeš	CZE	29.24 s	27.68 s	56.92 s
42	Martin Máca	CZE	28.10 s	29.90 s	58.00 s
43	Lukáš Vecheta	CZE	28.93 s	28.37 s	57.30 s
44	Timotej Oravec	SVK	28.75 s	28.56 s	57.31 s
45	Pavel Fic	CZE	29.23 s	28.54 s	57.77 s
46	Seyed Mojtaba Seyd	IRN	29.21 s	28.60 s	57.81 s
47	Seyed Yasser Seyd	IRN	28.60 s	29.24 s	57.84 s
48	Michal Sklenář	CZE	28.79 s	29.70 s	58.49 s
49	Martin Soltík	CZE	29.45 s	29.29 s	58.74 s
50	Michal Pohl	CZE	29.10 s	29.90 s	59.00 s
51	Šimon Vojta	CZE	30.10 s	30.91 s	1: 01.01 min
52	David Myslivec	CZE	30.34 s	31.47 s	1: 01.81 min
53	Jiří Fuchs	CZE	36.67 s	28.10 s	1: 04.77 min
54	David Toman	CZE	33.59 s	33.69 s	1: 07.28 min
55	Ching-Wen Yeh	TPE	34.16 s	45.01 s	1: 19.17 min

Date: September 7, 2007 Start time: Super-G: 1:00 p.m., Slalom: 5:00 p.m. Of the 60 runners who started, four dropped out and another was disqualified; 55 runners (92 percent) were included in the ranking. Eliminated in the first run (1): Franz Seiz ( GER ) Disqualified in the first run (1): Riccardo Lorenzone ( ITA ) Eliminated in the second run (3): Stefano Sartori ( ITA ), Hossein Kalhor (1984) ( IRN ), Jindřich Jež ( CZE ) Not started in the first run (2): Philipp Gschwandtner ( AUT ), Martin Horicky ( CZE )

Results women

slalom

space	Surname	country	Time 1.	Time 2.	total
1	Nadja Vogel	SUI	27.73 s	29.47 s	57.20 s
2	Yukiyo Shintani	JPN	28.71 s	29.24 s	57.95 s
3	Ingrid Hirschhofer	AUT	28.38 s	29.92 s	58.30 s
4th	Ilaria Sommavilla	ITA	28.62 s	30.06 s	58.68 s
5	Petra Mlejnková	CZE	28.93 s	30.58 s	59.51 s
6th	Bianca Lenz	SUI	29.99 s	33.35 s	1: 03.34 min
7th	Jacqueline Gerlach	AUT	29.12 s	44.74 s	1: 13.86 min
8th	Fatemeh Mahdavian	IRN	55.95 s	54.09 s	1: 50.04 min

Date: September 9, 2007 Start time: 10:00 am / 2:00 pm Of the 13 runners who started, three dropped out and one more was disqualified, one runner did not start in the second run; eight runners (62 percent) were included in the ranking. Eliminated in the first run (3): Caroline Hertweck ( GER ), Anna-Lena Büdenbender ( GER ), Lucie Surovcová ( CZE ) Disqualified in the second run (1): Lenka Gábrišová ( SVK ) Not started in the first run (1): Hsin-Yi Lee ( TPE ) Not started in the second run (1): Antonella Manzoni ( ITA )

Giant slalom

space	Surname	country	Time 1.	Time 2.	total
1	Nadja Vogel	SUI	32.45 s	31.55 s	1: 04.00 min
2	Ingrid Hirschhofer	AUT	32.57 s	31.82 s	1: 04.39 min
3	Anna-Lena Büdenbender	GER	32.82 s	31.63 s	1: 04.45 min
4th	Ilaria Sommavilla	ITA	32.99 s	32.99 s	1: 05.98 min
5	Petra Mlejnková	CZE	33.94 s	33.23 s	1: 07.17 min
6th	Hsin-Yi Lee	TPE	58.92 s	1: 05.57 min	2: 04.49 min

Date: September 8, 2007 Start time: 10:00 am / 2:00 pm Of the 14 runners who started, two were canceled and six others were disqualified; six runners (43 percent) were included in the ranking. Eliminated in the first run (1): Antonella Manzoni ( ITA ) Disqualified in the first run (5): Lucie Surovcová ( CZE ), Yukiyo Shintani ( JPN ), Fatemeh Mahdavian ( IRN ), Bianca Lenz ( SUI ), Lenka Gábrišová ( SVK ) Eliminated in the second run (1): Jacqueline Gerlach ( AUT ) Disqualified in the second run (1): Caroline Hertweck ( GER )

Super G

space	Surname	country	time
01	Nadja Vogel	SUI	31.65 s
02	Ingrid Hirschhofer	AUT	31.97 s
03	Antonella Manzoni	ITA	32.23 s
04th	Lenka Gábrišová	SVK	32.48 s
05	Anna-Lena Büdenbender	GER	32.88 s
06th	Ilaria Sommavilla	ITA	32.90 s
07th	Zuzana Gardavská	CZE	32.94 s
08th	Caroline Hertweck	GER	33.09 s
09	Yukiyo Shintani	JPN	33.51 s
10	Jacqueline Gerlach	AUT	33.68 s
11	Petra Mlejnková	CZE	34.20 s
12	Lucie Surovcová	CZE	34.62 s
13	Bianca Lenz	SUI	34.86 s
14th	Fatemeh Mahdavian	IRN	40.14 s
15th	Hsin-Yi Lee	TPE	1: 23.06 min

Date: September 7, 2007 Start time: 10:00 a.m. All 15 started runners were included in the ranking.

Super combination

space	Surname	country	Time SG	Time SL	total
01	Nadja Vogel	SUI	28.46 s	28.55 s	57.01 s
02	Lenka Gábrišová	SVK	29.28 s	28.62 s	57.90 s
03	Zuzana Gardavská	CZE	29.25 s	28.88 s	58.13 s
04th	Ingrid Hirschhofer	AUT	29.00 s	29.48 s	58.48 s
05	Yukiyo Shintani	JPN	29.58 s	29.27 s	58.85 s
06th	Ilaria Sommavilla	ITA	29.73 s	29.25 s	59.98 s
07th	Caroline Hertweck	GER	29.88 s	29.29 s	59.17 s
08th	Anna-Lena Büdenbender	GER	29.80 s	29.41 s	59.21 s
08th	Antonella Manzoni	ITA	29.33 s	29.88 s	59.21 s
10	Petra Mlejnková	CZE	30.86 s	29.50 s	1: 00.36 min
11	Jacqueline Gerlach	AUT	30.47 s	30.40 s	1: 00.87 min
12	Lucie Surovcová	CZE	30.93 s	30.16 s	1: 01.09 min
13	Bianca Lenz	SUI	31.65 s	30.99 s	1: 02.64 min
14th	Fatemeh Mahdavian	IRN	36.07 s	50.27 s	1: 26.34 min

Date: September 7, 2007 Start time: Super-G: 1:00 p.m., Slalom: 5:00 p.m. Of the 15 runners who started, 14 (93 percent) were included in the evaluation, one runner was disqualified. Disqualified in the second run (1): Hsin-Yi Lee ( TPE )

Web links

• Grass Ski World Championships 2007 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)