Impressive Hall earns bronze


Adam Hall has taken bronze in the standing super combined at the Beijing Paralympics. PHOTO: REUTERS
Adam Hall has taken bronze in the standing super combined at the Beijing Paralympics. PHOTO: REUTERS
Otago alpine skier Adam Hall has done it again.

Hall produced a spectacular performance at his fifth Winter Paralympics to win a fourth medal in Beijing last night.

The Dunedin-born, Wanaka-based 34-year-old won bronze in the standing super combined, a repeat of his efforts in that discipline at Pyeongchang four years ago.

The bronzes complement his two gold medals in the slalom from 2010 and 2018.

Hall was just 15th after the first run in the super combined, the super G discipline, and at 4.28sec off the podium, a medal perhaps seemed unlikely.

But in the second leg, his favoured slalom, he crushed his run in 39.44sec to assume the gold medal position with about a dozen skiers to come.

One by one, the contenders either crashed or posted times slower than Hall, until firstly Santeri Kiiveri (Finland) then gold medallist Arthur Bauchet (France) went past the New Zealander.

Hall has the giant slalom on Thursday night and will start as one of the favourites in the slalom on Saturday.

Fellow New Zealand skier Aaron Ewen, at his first Winter Paralympics, was 10th in the sitting super combined after the first round but crashed on his second run.

-- HAYDEN MEIKLE

 

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