Mikaela Shiffrin received a girls’s World Cup slalom Sunday after first-run chief Petra Vlhova regarded set for an additional clear victory till she straddled a gate and didn’t end her remaining run.
Vlhova, who dominated Saturday’s race on the identical hill, prolonged her large lead of 0.76 seconds over Shiffrin from the opening leg to greater than a second when the Slovakian did not clear a gate within the steep part halfway down the Levi Black course in Finland.
Shiffrin referred to as Vlhova’s mishap “actually dangerous luck for her.”
“Petra actually did a masterclass in slalom snowboarding this weekend. And she or he was by far forward. In my thoughts, she earned this victory and I am fairly fortunate to have it,” mentioned the American, who secured her record-extending 89th profession World Cup win.
“It is a little bit bittersweet. I am actually pleased with the victory, however I’ve to present her the credit score. She earned it, in all probability a second and a half by the underside, at the very least.”
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Featured VideoThe record-setting skier completed with an total time of 1:51.68 to position first within the girls’s slalom competitors on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup cease in Levi, Finland.
Shiffrin posted a two-run time of 1 minute 51.68 seconds, 0.18 forward of Leona Popovic of Croatia, who was quickest within the remaining run and earned her second profession podium outcome, and 30-100ths of a second forward of third-placed Lena Duerr of Germany (1:51.98).
It was Shiffrin’s document seventh win in Levi, the place no skier aside from her or Vlhova has received the normal season-opening slalom since 2016.
Slalom world champion Laurence St-Germain bounced again from a disappointing exhibiting Saturday, when she did not qualify for the second run. On Sunday, St-Germain completed seventh in 1:53.00, one place behind Canadian teammate Ali Nullmeyer (1:52.92).
Bone bruise in left knee from coaching crash
Shiffrin’s win adopted per week wherein the American needed to cut back her time on snow after bruising a bone in her left knee in a coaching crash.
“If something, it proves that I’ve a superb mindset to struggle, nonetheless,” Shiffrin mentioned. “After the final 10 days, it has been a little bit little bit of a battle to think about even racing, so this implies quite a bit to the entire staff.”
The outcome marked the primary top-three results of the season for Shiffrin. She received 14 races final season and her fifth total title.
Shiffrin began the brand new marketing campaign with a sixth place in a large slalom in Austria two weeks in the past and completed fourth in Saturday’s first slalom, when Vlhova posted the quickest time in each runs to win by an enormous margin of 1.41 seconds over Duerr.
“It was superb to observe her ski these two days,” Shiffrin mentioned of Vlhova.
This weekend’s outcome gave Shiffrin an early lead in each the slalom and the general World Cup standings.
The victory earned the American a seventh reindeer, a conventional prize the winner receives after the race in Finnish Lapland. The animals stay on a neighborhood farm in Finland.
Katharina Liensberger, the 2021 winner of the slalom World Cup and world title who obtained her first podium in practically two years Saturday, shared eighth with Wendy Holdener of Switzerland.
The ladies’s World Cup continues with two cross-border Zermatt-Cervinia downhills in Switzerland and Italy subsequent week. The boys’s races on the Matterhorn mountain had been canceled this weekend on account of heavy snowfall and robust winds.
