Sault Ste. Marie's Brigitte Acton placed tenth in today's ladies' combined downhill at the Torino Winter Olympics.
The Saultbie's time was 1:30.98 seconds, 1.58 seconds off the best time of 1:29.40 posted by Janica Kostelic of Croatia.
Teammate Emily Brydon from Fernie, British Columbia finished third with a time of 1:29.92. Here are the rankings from today's race:
********************** 1 KOSTELIC Janica CRO 1:29.40 2 PAERSON Anja SWE 1:29.57 0.17 3 BRYDON Emily CAN 1:29.92 0.52 4 FANCHINI Nadia ITA 1:30.04 0.64 5 BENT Nike SWE 1:30.13 0.73 6 LINDELL-VIKARBY Jessica SWE 1:30.19 0.79 7 SCHILD Marlies AUT 1:30.36 0.96 8 ZETTEL Kathrin AUT 1:30.66 1.26 9 MANCUSO Julia USA 1:30.84 1.44 10 ACTON Brigitte CAN 1:30.98 1.58 11 KIRCHGASSER Michaela AUT 1:31.02 1.62 12 ERTL-RENZ Martina GER 1:31.08 1.68 13 HOSP Nicole AUT 1:31.14 1.74 14 HARGIN Janette SWE 1:31.29 1.89 15 MARCHAND-ARVIER Marie FRA 1:31.45 2.05 16 KRISTJANSDOTTIR Dagny L. ISL 1:31.65 2.25 17 SIORPAES Wendy ITA 1:31.71 2.31 18 RICHARDSON Kaylin L USA 1:31.83 2.43 19 ROBNIK Petra SLO 1:32.02 2.62 20 STIEGLER Resi USA 1:32.35 2.95 21 ZAHROBSKA Sarka CZE 1:32.38 2.98 22 HRSTKOVA Lucie CZE 1:32.42 3.02 23 BERGMANN-SCHMUDERER Monika GER 1:32.54 3.14 24 RUIZ CASTILLO Carolina ESP 1:32.72 3.32 25 ZUZULOVA Veronika SVK 1:33.28 3.88 26 MACULOVA Sona SVK 1:34.09 4.69 27 ZAKOURILOVA Petra CZE 1:34.59 5.19 28 SIMARI BIRKNER Macarena ARG 1:35.72 6.32 29 SIMARI BIRKNER Maria Belen ARG 1:36.72 7.32 30 BARAHONA Noelle CHI 1:42.61 13.21
Did not start slalom 1st run
CASASNOVAS Andrea ESP VAZQUEZ Miriam ARG Did not finish slalom 1st run BARTHET Anne-Sophie FRA LOLOVIC Jelena SCG RUBENS Shona CAN HUCKOVA Eva SVK GANTNEROVA Jana SVK COLETTI Alexandra MON NJEIM Chirine LIB
Disqualified slalom 1st run ALCOTT Chemmy GBR
Did not finish slalom 2nd run KILDOW Lindsey C. USA RABIC Urska SLO
Disqualified slalom 2nd run MERIGHETTI Daniela ITA
Did not start downhill AUFDENBLATTEN Fraenzi SUI FLEISS Nika CRO
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