Swiss win inaugural team gold, Norway set medals record | Bangkok Post: news - News Summed Up

Swiss win inaugural team gold, Norway set medals record | Bangkok Post: news


PYEONGCHANG (SOUTH KOREA) - Wendy Holdener led a strong Switzerland team to alpine team skiing gold on Saturday, as Norway took bronze to set a new record of 38 medals at a Winter Olympics. Norway's bronze set a new record of 38 medals at a single Winter Olympics. Austria, boasting individual slalom bronze medallists Michael Matt and Katharina Gallhuber, Katharina Liensberger and Manuel Feller overcame South Korea, Sweden and Norway before the match-up with the Swiss. Norway won bronze, Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen beating France's Clement Noel in the fourth and final run to win by a tie-breaking 0.12sec after two victories to each team. It was a record 38th Winter Olympics medal for Norway, beating the record set by the United States in 2010.


Source: Bangkok Post February 24, 2018 06:45 UTC



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