MORE BRITISH WORLD CUP BESTS FOR CHEMMY ALCOTT.

Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.              Results:   1st Downhill       2nd Downhill        Super-G 

Chemmy Alcott, 21, was not born when a British female last scored World Cup points for finishing in the Top 30 of a World Cup downhill, and Super G was
not invented, but Alcott opened another chapter of British ski racing history today in Lake Louise with a remarkable 11th place in Super G, topping off her two 22nd places in Friday and Saturday's World Cup downhills.

While Alcott's downhill finishes were good enough in themselves they were scored in flat light and poor visibility over lake Louise's Men's Olympic Downhill course.

Today the visibility cleared and Alcott skied an attacking run which saw her earn the 'Win for All' prize as the best finisher with a low start number. Racing with start bib 38 Alcott skied the top sections well but excelled on the lower half of the course where she skied a different, straighter line to record the fastest split time, and finish 1.49 seconds behind Austria's winner Renate Goetschl.

" I am so pleased. It has been a great weekend. It's a shame that it looks like that will be the last downhill for a while because I am really up for it. I have so much more confidence in my skiing now and it really showed here I think." Alcott explained, " I think I was pretty unlucky with the light in the downhills but I ski flat light well, so I was not too bothered, but today it was clear and fast. I was a little bit tentative on the top but on the bottom we had a different line, which Christian (Schwaiger, head coach of The British Land Alpine Ski Team) had told me and it worked. It was a pretty tough course and some of the girls were making a bit of a big deal about it, but I felt I skied it well."

Alcott has always measured herself against the best of the British men's skiers through her career, but she attributes the confidence which has underpinned her promising start to this season to training with the men of the British Land Alpine Ski Team this summer on the glaciers and also nine long weeks of intensive fitness training alongside some of Austria's best racers in Salzburg.

"I have always been competitive with the boys but this summer it was all I could match up to and I knew I was skiing well against them. Mentally I feel so much more up for it. Even though my coach probably tells me ten times a day that I can do it, I have never really felt totally confident.  Now I fell like I can and today really proves it to me."  

" These are great results for Chemmy and prove that she has really now laid down the technical foundations for her world cup skiing but it is just a case of taking it one step at a time. This is pretty much like it was for Alain Baxter three years ago, so she has great potential." Confirmed Christian Schwaiger, the head coach of The British Land Alpine Ski Team. Alcott returns to Europe this week.

Audi FIS Alpine World Cup, Women's Downhill, Lake Louise, Canada. Saturday:

1 C Montillet (Fra) 1:24.18,

2 M Dorfmeister (Aut) 1:24.30,

3 R Goetschl (Aut) 1:24.41,

4 E Brydon (Can) 1:24.87,

4 H Gerg (Ger) 1:25.02,

22 C Alcott (Hove/The British Land Alpine Ski Team) 1:25.65

Audi FIS Alpine World Cup, Women's Super G, Lake Louise, Canada. Sunday:

1 R Goetschl (Aut) 1:14.98,

2 M Dorfmeister (Aut) 1:15:49,

3 H Gerg (Ger) 1:15.66,

4 K Clark (USA) 1:15.85,

5 N Styger (Sui) 1:15.86,

11 C Alcott (Hove/The British Land Alpine Ski Team) 1:16.47.