Shiffrin, Rast, Holdener / GEPA footage
Rast edges Shiffrin in Kranjska Gora slalom basic, completes GS–SL double
Prime 5 — Kranjska Gora girls’s World Cup slalom
1st — 🇨🇭 Camille Rast — 1:40.20
2nd — 🇺🇸 Mikaela Shiffrin — +0.14
third — 🇨🇭 Wendy Holdener — +1.83
4th — 🇺🇸 Paula Moltzan — +1.97
fifth — 🇮🇹 Lara Della Mea — +2.04
Camille Rast delivered the quickest first and second runs of the day to edge Mikaela Shiffrin by 0.14 seconds and win Sunday’s girls’s World Cup slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. The victory accomplished a uncommon big slalom–slalom double for Rast and marked the primary time she has received a slalom with Shiffrin within the subject — and the primary time Shiffrin has been crushed in slalom this season.
Because the first-run chief, Rast skied final and dealt with most stress with precision and vitality. She posted the quickest second run (49.96) to complete in 1:40.20, extending her first-run benefit simply sufficient to disclaim Shiffrin, who had delivered what she later described as one in all her most dedicated runs of the season.
“It was a battle, however I had numerous enjoyable,” Rast mentioned. “I gave every part I had this weekend. To win twice on the identical weekend is kind of superb. The slope was superb, and the floor preparation was excellent.”
In the meantime, Wendy Holdener accomplished the rostrum in third, 1.83 seconds again, after one other composed, technically sharp efficiency that once more highlighted her consistency in high-pressure slalom racing.
Shiffrin pushes to absolutely the restrict
Regardless of beginning behind Holdener, Shiffrin attacked instantly, carrying a 0.67-second first-run benefit into the decisive phases of the race. Out of the gate, she skied aggressively by way of the center and closed with authority, briefly taking a commanding lead that appeared prone to prolong her unbeaten slalom streak.
“I couldn’t ski quicker, however I attempted,” Shiffrin mentioned. “I had a really particular technical feeling I used to be looking for within the second run, and I felt it. I pushed so arduous, and I might be actually, actually pleased with that.”
Sector timing backed up her evaluation. In actual fact, she was quickest within the decrease sections of the course and misplaced time solely the place Rast was distinctive. For Shiffrin, the most important accomplishment was executing technical particulars at full pace on an exceptionally quick observe.
“I used to be not backing off,” she mentioned. “I used to be pushing so arduous that I felt like I used to be flying. That’s what I needed, it doesn’t matter what occurred.”
Even earlier than Rast skied, Shiffrin knew the margin could be tight.
“Actually, sure, I believed Camille may very well be quicker,” she mentioned. “I hoped not, after all, however her snowboarding has been constructing. To win back-to-back races in two completely different occasions is extremely arduous, and she or he did it in spectacular style.”
Holdener again on the rostrum
After a difficult stretch during which outcomes had not mirrored her degree, Holdener mentioned the rostrum carried added which means. She described the season as “not that simple till now,” however mentioned she was completely happy to be again within the prime three and to take “a giant step to compete towards these two once more.”
The Swiss veteran entered the race with 38 profession World Cup slalom podiums, but had gone 9 races and not using a top-three end — her longest such stretch in a decade. On Sunday, nonetheless, she confirmed clear progress, posting the third-fastest time in each runs, even when the race in the end turned a two-woman duel on the entrance.
She added that the consequence confirmed she is shifting in the fitting route and is “making an attempt step-by-step to catch up,” a course of she believes is lastly beginning to present.
A race determined purely by execution
Total, the second run unfolded as a tactical battle, with a number of lead adjustments and no DNFs. All 30 second-run starters completed, an uncommon end result that underscored the extent of the course and situations. It positioned the consequence squarely on execution slightly than survival.
Shiffrin mentioned that dynamic is strictly what makes slalom compelling.
“I don’t consider it’s doable to win each race with this degree of competitors,” she mentioned. “What we noticed as we speak is what our sport needs to be — difficult, intense, and determined by nice snowboarding.”
United States: 5 Stifel U.S. Ski Group qualifiers rating
5 Stifel U.S. Ski Group athletes certified for the second run in Sunday’s girls’s slalom, and all 5 completed within the factors in a race determined purely by execution, with all 30 second-run starters reaching the end.
2nd — Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)Skied at full dedication within the second run and narrowly missed a seventh straight slalom victory, pushing to the restrict on a quick, demanding Podkoren observe.
4th — Paula Moltzan (USA)Completed simply off the rostrum in what she described as a bittersweet consequence. Moltzan mentioned racing towards the very prime highlighted each the extent required and the room nonetheless left to enhance, including that seeing a number of Individuals deep within the outcomes was “fairly huge” for the group.
thirteenth — A.J. Damage (USA)Continued her return from harm along with her first World Cup slalom results of the season, saying it felt good to have her strong snowboarding again and noting she now not thinks about her hip whereas within the course.
nineteenth — Nina O’Brien (USA)Produced the one vital second-run cost, climbing 9 positions after lastly bringing the sensations she has felt in coaching right into a race atmosphere.
thirtieth — Elisabeth Bocock (USA)Earned the primary World Cup slalom factors of her profession, ending cleanly regardless of a expensive mistake in the midst of her second run.
Rast will have fun quietly—“with household, one thing good to eat, no stress,” she mentioned—however the lasting picture from Kranjska Gora was unmistakable: Shiffrin at full throttle, Rast rising to the second, and slalom racing at its easiest.
Slalom Outcomes
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