Shifrin had built up a good lead after the first race, leading her closest pursuer, Olympic champion Sarah Hector, by six tenths of a second. Not Hektor, who cannot come close to 2021/22. performance of the season, nor the Norwegian for the third time Olympic vice-champion Ragnhild Muwinkel from Norway did not have a good second race, then the current Olympic and world vice-champion Brignone, fifth on the first course, but with an excellent second race, he completely lost a 1.63 second deficit and ultimately conceded a third of a second to the American. 17th time for Shifrin (+1.25 sec.) only on the second track.
If Hektor had remained at least in the top three, where she was last in March this year, current world championship bronze medalist Muwinkel would have slipped to 13th place. For the third time this season, Canadian Valeria Grenier, winner of the PK stage in Kranska Gora and participant in the FIS race organized by the Latvian Ski Federation in Poca di Fassa, entered the top six and achieved the best result of the season.
For the second time in the season and in her career, Austrian Yuliya Scheiba entered the top ten and achieved her best result, moving up nine positions in the second race. Petra Vlhova from Slovakia made an even bigger leap – 11th position. Meanwhile, Lara Guta Behrami, who won the season-opening race in Zelden and also the second giant slalom in Killington, did not show her usual performance today and remained sixth, for the second time out of five this season not she reached the top three in this discipline.
The Croatian Zrinka Ljutica, born in 2004, entered the top ten of the jubilee in the PK stages, with 10th place. Meanwhile, Lara Kulturi, an Italian born in 2006, who represents Albania, has entered the top 30 for the tenth time. Together with these and many other young alpine skiers who have repeatedly exceeded the age of thirty, tomorrow there is our twenty-year-old Jennifer German, who participates in the Lienz slalom.
Alpine Skiing World Cup stage, women’s giant slalom, Lienz (Austria), 63 participants
V. AthleteCountryResult 1. Mikaela ShiffrinUSA2:05.982. Federica BrignoneItaly+0.383. Sara HektorSweden+0.454. Valéria GrenierCanada+0.635. Julia ScheibaAustria+0.806. Lara Gutta-BehramiSwitzerland+1.21
Women’s World Cup standings,
V.SportivaPuntiNazionali1.Mikaela ShifrinUSA8002.Federika BrignoneItaly6373.Petra VlhovaSlovakia527
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