Winter Olympics 2022 - Ester Ledecka tops the elimination leaderboard by two seconds as Czech progresses to next round

Ester Ledecka progressed to the next stage of the women’s parallel giant slalom, easing through the elimination run with a 1:23.63 time — over two seconds quicker than second place Ramona Hofmeister. Tsubaki Miki of Japan and Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) Sofiya Nadyrshina also qualified with the fourth and fifth best times respectively, Miki coming in at 1:27.15 and Nadyrshina marginally slower at 1:27.22.

Ad/> Coming in just behind those were Austrian duo Julia Dujmovits and Daniela Ulbing with subsequent times of 1:27.43 and 1:27.77. Beijing 2022Parrot wins controversial slopestyle gold – What happened exactly?14 HOURS AGO In the men’s elimination race, South Korea’s Sangho Lee survived and produced a table topping time of 1:20.54 to proceed to the next round It was a tight affair between second and seventh place, with all six riders in the one-minute 21-second bracket.

Andreas Prommegger representing Austria came in just under a second later than Sangho at 1:21.37, whilst Slovenia’s Tim Mastnak came third, and Oskar Kwiatkowski finished fourth with times of 1:21.43 and 1:21.52. Medal table Schedule and results Team GB Roland Fischnaller (ITA), Michael Nowaczyk (POL), and Dmitrii Loginov (ROC) closely followed.

Edwin Coratti missed out by 00.01, finishing 13th behind Italian compatriot Daniele Bagozza who scraped through by the skin of his teeth. Eurosport's live blog will take you through the rest of the action later on today with the women's quarter-final up next starting at 8:05 GMT.