“It was good at the top and good at the bottom,” explained Kriechmayr in an ORF interview. “The middle section didn’t go as I’d intended. It bugs me that I didn’t ski the middle section so well. But today you had to take risks, visibility wasn’t good.” However, his delight at winning his first medal at a major event was undimmed. “When I saw the sun coming out I was still sweating buckets,” he said. “I’m absolutely overjoyed.”
Fischer racer Steven Nyman also achieved a very respectable result: placing eighth, the American made it into the top ten, while his fellow countryman and brand colleague Bryce Bennett finished 23rd.
