2024-01-16 20:58:00
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Michelle Gisin achieves a top performance in the night slalom in Flachau. Mikaela Shiffrin takes her 4th win of the season.
The podium
- 1. Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) 1:49.35 minutes
- 2. Petra Vlhova (SVK) +0.27
- 3. Sara Hector (SWE) +1,11
In Flachau, either Petra Vlhova or Mikaela Shiffrin wins – this law, which has been in force since 2018, will not change in 2024. This time the duel between the two slalom queens once more went in favor of the American. Shiffrin made up for the mini-mortgage of 7 hundredths from the first run and won by 27 hundredths ahead of her closest competitor. Sara Hector in third place lost more than a second to the winner.
After suffering one of her rare failures in Kranjska Gora 10 days ago and then skipping the speed weekend in Zauchensee due to illness, Shiffrin hit back impressively. Thanks to her fifth victory overall on the Hermann Maier World Cup course, she increased her lead in the Slalom World Cup over Vlhova from 5 to 25 points. After 7 slaloms this season, Shiffrin has 4 wins.
The Swiss in the 2nd run
- 4. Michelle Gisin +1.38
- 6. Camille Rast +1.83
- 12. Mélanie Meillard +2.99
- 23. Elena Stoffel +4.61
- 24. Nicole Good +4,76
In her 20th World Cup race this season, Michelle Gisin once once more managed to switch from the speed disciplines to the shorter slalom skis very well. On Sunday, Gisin finished 5th in the Super-G in Zauchensee. Starting the race in 6th place following the 1st run, she continued to push forward despite a mishap following the 3rd intermediate time. Gisin temporarily lost a stick, but got it back and set a new best time. She ultimately missed the podium by just 27 hundredths.
Camille Rast also confirmed her recent good form. As in Kranjska Gora (4th), she improved in the second round. Thanks to the third-best running time, she moved up from 11th position to 6th place. For the second time in a row, the Valaisian managed to make it into the top 10. In 12th place, a third Swiss woman, Mélanie Meillard, made it into the top 15. There were also points for Elena Stoffel and Nicole Good.
Colturi with exclamation mark
Alongside winner Shiffrin, Lara Colturi wrote the story of the evening. The 17-year-old Italian, who competes for Albania, achieved an excellent 9th place with start number 60. She started the first run in 26th place, in the second she was the fastest and took 23 hundredths off Shiffrin.
This is how it continues
The technicians will be challenged once more this weekend. In Jasna, Slovakia, Vlhova competes in front of a home crowd. The program includes a giant slalom on Saturday and a slalom on Sunday.
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