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Maze storms to giant slalom victory
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WORLD Cup leader Tina Maze posted a superb second run to win a giant slalom yesterday for her third victory of the season and 26th of her career.
The Olympic giant slalom champion from Slovenia was in seventh place after the first run but gained time on the bottom section of the Olympia course in Are, Sweden, to win in a combined time of 2 minutes, 23.84 seconds.
She finished .20 seconds ahead of Sara Hector of Sweden, and .28 clear of first-run leader Eva-Maria Brem of Austria.
Maze was .70 quicker than Hector, and .86 faster than Brem on her second run.
Maze, who won the overall World Cup title in 2013, was 12th on the women’s all-time list for World Cup wins.
She has shown her versatility this season, with a downhill win at Lake Louise in Canada last month, and victory in slalom at Levi in Finland.
Italian skiers Federica Brignone and Nadia Fanchini were fourth and fifth, respectively, while Austrian Anna Fenninger was sixth.
Fenninger, the Olympic giant slalom silver medalist, was looking to become the first woman since Anja Paerson in 2004 to win five GS races in a calendar year.
A men’s giant slalom under floodlights was to follow later in the day.
The women’s event was moved from Courchevel and the men’s from Val d’Isere due to a lack of snow in the French Alps.
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