Andorran Puig Finishes 10th in Saalbach Super-G World Cup
Roger Puig earns 26 points with a solid run on iced course, maintaining 8th overall and 5th in super-G standings.
Key Points
- Puig 10th in super-G, earns 26 points; Guimond (CAN) wins, Bauchet (FRA) 2nd, Bugaev (RUS) 3rd.
- 26th career top-10 World Cup finish, matching prior downhill result.
- 8th overall (316 pts), 5th in super-G (113 pts).
- Next: 2nd super-G in Saalbach, then slaloms in Feldberg.
Andorran para-alpine skier Roger Puig finished tenth in the super-G event at the World Cup in Saalbach, Austria, earning 26 points for his efforts.
Puig delivered a solid run on a heavily iced course, despite committing a few errors. The victory went to Canadian Alexis Guimond, with France's Arthur Bauchet in second and Russia's Aleksei Bugaev rounding out the podium. This marks Puig's 26th top-10 finish in World Cup competition and repeats his strong performance from the downhill event there.
The result keeps Puig in eighth place in the overall standings across all disciplines with 316 points. In the super-G classification specifically, he sits fifth with 113 points.
Puig will compete in a second super-G in Saalbach today before heading to Feldberg, Germany, for two slaloms.
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