Norwegian Maria Therese Tviberg and Germany's Alexander Schmid won thrilling parallel finals at the Alpine skiing world championships on Wednesday. Tviberg beat Switzerland's Wendy Holdener in the final of the women's race while Norwegian Thea Louise Stjernesund took the bronze medal ahead of France's Mari
Norwegian Maria Therese Tviberg and Germany's Alexander Schmid won thrilling parallel finals at the Alpine skiing world championships on Wednesday.
Schmid was fastest in the men's event, beating Austria's Dominik Raschner with Norway's Timon Haugan taking the bronze.The 28-year-old Tviberg, who has never been on a World Cup podium before, took a 0.67-second victory over Holdener. Schmid's win snapped a 34-year drought for Germany who had not had an individual world champion since 1989, when Hans-Jorg Tauscher won the men's downhill title.
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