Austrian Capitalizes On Mistake

Austria’s Elfi Eder, urged on by a boisterous home crowd and capitalizing on a mistake by Slovenia’s Urska Hrovat, earned her third World Cup slalom victory of the season in Semmering, Austria, with a time of 1 minute, 40.70 seconds.

Eder, the overall slalom leader, was assured the victory when Hrovat, the leader after the first run, missed a gate near the top of the course in the second run and was disqualified. Marianne Kjoerstad of Norway was second.

Norwegian skier Oivind Berg jumped 120 meters - the longest leap of the day - in the final round to overtake first-round leader Lucas Chevalier of France and win a Continental Cup ski jumping meet in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Mika Laitinen of Finland won a World Cup ski jumping event in Oberstdorf, Germany, beating three-time Olympic champion Jens Weissflog of Germany.

Laitinen, the World Cup leader, posted his fifth victory in nine events this season, scoring 247.9 points with jumps of 121.5 and 119 meters.