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Austrian double as Hirscher takes third overall title

MARCEL Hirscher clinched his third straight overall World Cup title yesterday but couldn’t prevent Ted Ligety from winning his fifth season-long giant slalom trophy.

Needing 19 points to overtake Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, Austria’s Hirscher scored 50 by placing fourth in the season’s last GS race at the World Cup Finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

Ligety seized his chance to take the discipline title by winning the race by just 0.03 seconds to tie Hirscher on points.

The American got the GS title on a tiebreaker with five race wins this season against Hirscher’s two.

Ligety had a two-run combined time of 2 minutes, 15.63 seconds, edging runner-up Alexis Pinturault of France. Felix Neureuther of Germany was third.

Svindal led the overall standings going into the race but skied out in the first run. Hirscher leads Svindal by 31 points with only the slalom remaining, a race the Norwegian does not compete in.

Hirscher is the first male skier to win three straight “big globes” since American Phil Mahre in 1983.

Hirscher’s victory made it an Austrian double, with compatriot Anna Fenninger securing the women’s overall crown on Thursday.




 

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