American skier Mikaela Shiffrin picked up a record-extending 103rd World Cup victory when she posted the quickest time in each runs of the ladies’s slalom at Gurgl on Sunday.
The 30-year-old flew down the piste, with its vertical drop of 210m from an altitude of 2265m, to lead Albanian teenager Lara Colturi by 0.31sec after the primary run.
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She then prolonged that lead to 1.23sec by means of the 63 gates of the second descent as Colturi held second and Swiss ace Camille Rast rounded out the rostrum.
“That wasn’t easy, I really had to push it so it was a great run,” mentioned Shiffrin after wrapping the win.
“It was really nice with the sun on the second run. From last year, I remember it was so dark, so this was a really nice surprise.”
After opening the season with a fourth-placed end within the large slalom at Soelden, Shiffrin gained her first slalom of the brand new season final weekend in Levi, Finland.
This slalom win was a 66th for Shiffrin who leads each the self-discipline and general standings after three occasions, exhibiting that with the Olympics on the horizon at the beginning of subsequent yr, she is over final season’s horrific belly puncture damage.
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Colturi, who additionally completed second behind Shiffrin in Levi final week, confirmed her glorious begin to the season at simply 19 years of age whereas Rast, the world champion lastly returned to the rostrum after months of fighting hip issues.
Shiffrin could make it a hat-trick of slalom wins in subsequent weekend’s motion on dwelling snow at Copper Mountain, the place she can also be due to race in a large slalom.
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