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Women's Combined Color Commentary by Martin Bell [click for transcript]

Germany Takes 1-2-3 in Women's Combined

Katja "3 Golds" Seizinger [click to zoom]

She's dominated the World Cup so it's really no wonder Katja Seizinger led a German sweep of the women's combined today, taking her third Alpine medal of these Games and her second in as many days.

The combined event consists of a downhill and two slalom runs.

Seizinger, 25, is only the second woman to win triple golds and now has joined Swiss Vreni Schneider in the Olympic history books.

The German bomber, who won seven World Cup downhill and Super G races this season, with a six-in-a-row streak, lay down two flawless runs today in a combined time of 2:40.74. She now adds these Olympic golds to her '94 Lillehammer downhill gold.

Wiberg Couldn't Maintain [click to zoom]

In an unfortunate turn, Sweden's Pernilla Wiberg, who won silver to Seizinger's gold in the downhill, crashed out five gates before the bottom in the first slalom run.

Seizinger's compatriot Martina Ertl earned silver with her combined time of 2:40.92 followed by Hilde Gerg at 2:41.50, giving Germany a 1-2-3 sweep. American Caroline Lalive, who finished seventh, was quoted as saying, "I looked up at the podium and thought that 2002 could be a real bright spot in the future for us."

The slalom portion of this combined was the first Alpine event to be held on time. Seizinger may add to her cache as the women move to Shiga Kogen for the slalom on Thursday and the giant slalom on Friday

Results
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1 Katja Seizinger Germany 1:28.52
2 Pernilla Wiberg Sweden 1:28.86
3 Renate Goetschl Austria 1:29.34
4 Martina Ertl Germany 1:29.76
5 Brigitte Obermoser Austria 1:29.82
6 Florence Masnada France 1:29.87
7 Hilde Gerg Germany 1:29.92
8 Michaela Dorfmeister Austria 1:30.10
8 Stefanie Schuster Austria 1:30.10
10 Bibiana Perez Italy 1:30.54

1 Stefanie Schuster Austria 36.25
2 Martina Ertl Germany 36.45
3 Hilde Gerg Germany 36.52
4 Morena Gallizio Italy 36.83
5 Katja Seizinger Germany 37.14
6 Florence Masnada France 37.21
7 Caroline Lalive United States 37.29
8 Catherine Borghi Switzerland 37.32
9 Alexandra Shaffer United States 37.33
10 Janica Kostelic Croatia 37.35

1 Martina Ertl Germany 34.71
2 Hilde Gerg Germany 35.06
3 Katja Seizinger Germany 35.08
3 Monika Bergmann Germany 35.08
5 Morena Gallizio Italy 35.09
6 Alexandra Shaffer United States 35.38
7 Florence Masnada France 35.76
8 Stefanie Schuster Austria 35.90
9 Janica Kostelic Croatia 36.17
10 Caroline Lalive United States 36.42

1 Katja Seizinger Germany 2:40.74
2 Martina Ertl Germany 2:40.92
3 Hilde Gerg Germany 2:41.50
4 Stefanie Schuster Austria 2:42.25
5 Morena Gallizio Italy 2:42.52
6 Florence Masnada France 2:42.84
7 Caroline Lalive United States 2:44.76
8 Janica Kostelic Croatia 2:45.23
9 Alexandra Shaffer United States 2:45.24
10 Catherine Borghi Switzerland 2:45.33
11 Brigitte Obermoser Austria 2:45.48
12 Monika Bergmann Germany 2:45.84
13 Ingeborg Helen Marken Norway 2:47.19
14 Jonna Mendes United States 2:48.59
15 Lucie Hrstkova Czech Republic 2:49.96
16 Junko Yamakawa Japan 2:50.36
17 Tamara Schaedler Liechtenstein 2:52.18
18 Kirsten L Clark United States 2:52.25
19 Carola Calello Argentina 2:53.77
20 Yulia Kharkivska Ukraine 2:57.11
21 Monika Kovacs Hungary 3:06.31

Kristine Kristiansen Norway DNF