Olympics: Who's Winning What On Day Nine

Olympics: Who's winning what on day nine

Pyeongchang, South Korea, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Feb, 2018 ) :Brief rundown of the winners on day nine of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday: Men's giant slalom Austrian Marcel Hirscher claimed his second Olympic gold of the Games, showing all his class and experience to comprehensively win the men's giant slalom.

Men's freestyle skiing slopestyle Norway's Oystein Braaten produced an untouchable opening run to take Olympic gold. The 22-year-old, whose philosophy is "ski or die", scored 95.00 on his breathtaking first descent, enough to stay top throughout all three runs of the final.

Men's 4x10km cross-country skiing relay Norway denied the Olympic Athletes from Russia their first gold medal with victory, sealing gold over the Russians by 9.

4sec with France taking bronze.

Men's freestyle skiing aerials Oleksandr Abramenko picked up Ukraine's first medal of the Olympics, winning ahead of China's Jia Zongyang, in silver, and Ilia Burov of the Olympic Athletes from Russia, who took bronze.

Men's 15km mass start biathlon Martin Fourcade wrote himself into the French history books with a second biathlon gold at Pyeongchang and fourth gold medal in all, trumping French alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy, who won three golds at the 1968 Olympics.

Women's 500m speed skating World champion Nao Kodaira shook off the pressure of the biggest race of her life to become Japan's first female Olympic speed-skating gold medallist by capturing the 500m title.