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Maze and Gisin share gold in first ever Olympic Alpine skiing tie

12.02.2014 [19:50]
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Baku, February 12 (AZERTAC). Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze made history in the women's downhill skiing by becoming the first athletes ever to share Winter Olympics gold.

Switzerland's Gisin made the early running, clocking one minute, 41.57 seconds, before Slovenia's Maze recorded exactly the same time in Sochi.

Another Swiss, Lara Gut, finished 0.10 seconds adrift to clinch bronze.

The last time a women's Olympic skiing medal was shared was in Albertville in 1992, when American Diann Roffe and Austria's Anita Wachter took silver in the slalom.

Hans Knauss and Didier Cuche shared silver in men's super-G at Nagano in 1998.

Gisin, 28, raced in the downhill in Vancouver but failed to finish in her only previous Olympic experience, while Maze, 30, won silver in both the super-G and giant slalom four years ago.