Pinturault hot, Hirscher takes discipline title
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ALEXIS Pinturault of France won a World Cup giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, yesterday, while Marcel Hirscher of Austria came second to take the season’s discipline title with a race to spare.
Pinturault extended his first-run lead to finish in a total time of 2 minutes, 19.78 seconds, 0.68 ahead of Hirscher. A week ahead of his 24th birthday, it was his ninth career win but first in GS since February 2013.
Pinturault’s compatriot Thomas Fanara came 0.94 back in third, while fourth-place Ted Ligety of the United States trailed by 1.88.
With only next week’s season-ending race in Meribel left, Hirscher holds an insurmountable 185-point lead over Pinturault in the GS rankings.
Hirscher, who is targeting a fourth straight overall World Cup title, also tops the overall standings.
In Are, Sweden, Olympic and two-time world champion Mikaela Shiffrin stormed to a comprehensive victory in a World Cup slalom yesterday.
American Shiffrin finished a massive 1.41 seconds faster than Slovakian Veronika Velez Zuzulova, with Sarka Strachova of the Czech Republic completing the podium, at 2.15.
The 20-year-old Shiffrin, whose gold at the Sochi Olympics was sandwiched by victories at both the 2013 and 2015 world championships, consolidated her place atop the discipline standings ahead of the decisive season-ending finale in Meribel.
She now has 579 points, 90 ahead of Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter, who could only finish sixth on home snow.
In the overall table, Slovenia’s Tina Maze accrued 15 points for her 16th place to leave her on 1,311 points, cutting the gap on leader Anna Fenninger of Austria (1,341) to just 30 points.
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