Camille Rast / GEPA footage
Prime 5 After First Run – Ladies’s World Cup Slalom (Kranjska Gora)
1st — 🇨🇭 Camille Rast (SUI) — 50.24
2nd — 🇺🇸 Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) — +0.10
third — 🇨🇭 Wendy Holdener (SUI) — +0.77
4th — 🇺🇸 Paula Moltzan (USA) — +0.89
fifth — 🇦🇹 Katharina Truppe (AUT) — +0.90
Rast edges Shiffrin after first run as Kranjska Gora slalom units up wide-open finale
Camille Rast delivered a composed, late-charging first run to guide the ladies’s World Cup slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, edging Mikaela Shiffrin by a tenth of a second on a fast, rhythm-driven set that rewarded timing and centered anticipation to the very backside.
Rast’s 50.24 got here from proudly owning the ultimate two sectors, the place she accelerated cleanly whereas others bled pace. Shiffrin is +0.10 again in second, with Wendy Holdener and Paula Moltzan finishing a tightly packed prime 4. 4 skiers sit inside a second of the Swiss chief, and the door is huge open for a decisive second run.
Rast strikes late; Shiffrin sits completely poised
Camille Rast (SUI) didn’t dominate early splits, however she managed the underside—first in Sectors 3 and 4—to take the lead. It was a tactically good run on a set designed to maintain the sector shut and reward endurance late.
Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) skied third and confirmed why she has owned the self-discipline. She didn’t extract most pace up prime, but ranked second by way of the ultimate three sectors to fit only a tenth again. Crucially, Shiffrin avoids the chief’s chair and sits in superb place to assault run two.
“The floor could be very supportive, so it’s a very good time to be snowboarding a course this fast,” Shiffrin stated. “It’s difficult, however for me it was fairly enjoyable to ski, and I felt like I used to be pushing as laborious as I can.”
A win would give Shiffrin her seventh consecutive World Cup slalom victory and make her good six-for-six this season. If she doesn’t win, it will mark the primary time this winter she’s been crushed in slalom—both method, the story nonetheless runs by way of her.
Wendy Holdener (SUI) was good in Sector 2 however misplaced time within the mid-course compression and holds third at +0.77. Paula Moltzan (USA) set the quickest opening break up within the area, then paid for the early aggression late, ending fourth at +0.89.
Rast’s momentum is actual. She received the enormous slalom right here Saturday and owns three profession World Cup victories—two in slalom—although neither slalom win got here with Shiffrin within the area.
DNFs thinned the contenders early. Zrinka Ljutić and Lara Colturi each went out, with Colturi—whose father set the course—crashing to her hip whereas pushing the tempo.
North American report: USA depth shines; Canada shut out
United States (Stifel U.S. Ski Crew)Shiffrin and Moltzan headline the U.S. cost, ranked second and fourth, respectively, however the depth story mattered simply as a lot.
A.J. Damage (bib 31) delivered a composed run to sit down fifteenth (+2.11), squarely within the combine for a second-run transfer.
Elisabeth Bocock (bib 36) revealed grit and pace to qualify twenty fifth (+2.92), incomes her first girls’s World Cup slalom second run—a milestone for the completed GS skier.
Nina O’Brien (bib 42) skied cleanly to twenty eighth (+3.09) and safely by way of to run two.
CanadaIt was a uncommon off day. Laurence St‑Germain DNF’d early, and Amelia Sensible slipped out of the highest 30 because the record crammed. The end result: no Canadian girls advance—an uncommon end result in slalom.
Excessive-bib affect: late starters money in as area stretches
The course and floor rewarded high quality snowboarding to the tip of the beginning record. With 5 DNFs and one DNS, plus giant gaps behind the leaders, bibs 31+ discovered actual alternative. The time unfold from Rast to thirtieth settled at 3.49 seconds.
Excessive-bib qualifiers (bib 31+)
🇸🇪 Bib 33 Estelle Alphand — 14th, +1.93 (quickest finisher amongst bibs 31+)
🇺🇸 Bib 31 A.J. Damage — fifteenth, +2.11
🇮🇹 Bib 40 Giulia Valleriani — twentieth, +2.69
🇮🇱 Bib 70 Noa Szollos — twenty second, +2.81 (highest bib to qualify)
🇦🇹 Bib 51 Leonie Raich — twenty fourth, +2.87
🇺🇸 Bib 36 Elisabeth Bocock — twenty fifth, +2.92
🇮🇹 Bib 46 Beatrice Sola — twenty seventh, +3.07
🇺🇸 Bib 42 Nina O’Brien — twenty eighth, +3.09
🇸🇪 Bib 58 Moa Landström — twenty ninth, +3.29
🇮🇹 Bib 53 Emilia Mondinelli — thirtieth, +3.49 ✅
First Run Prime 30
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