Slovak skier Petra Vlhova won the World Cup slalom at Kranjska Gora in Slovenia on Sunday, after a race marked by the exit of ski queen Mikaela Shiffrin in the first run.
Vlhova, 28, dominated the slalom in the first run before resisting in the second to achieve her third success of the winter. She is ahead of the German Lena Dürr (72 hundredths), already second in the giant on Saturday, and the American AJ Hurt (87 hundredths), part number 38 and who is on a world podium for the first time.
The Olympic slalom champion also signed the great operation of the weekend: by garnering 100 points in the specialty ranking, Vlhova is only five small units behind Mikaela Shiffrin, who leaves the Slovenian stage empty-handed.
After an unusual ninth place in the giant on Saturday, her worst result since November 2022 in this discipline, the American with 93 World Cup victories rode in the first round of the slalom on Sunday, something never seen since 2017 for Shiffrin who came out very rarely traces.
Without scoring any points on Sunday, Shiffrin nevertheless remains well ahead of the general classification with 929 points, ahead of Vlhova (722 points) and the Italian Federica Brignone (697 points).
On the French side, the young Chiara Pogneaux had the best race of her career to take 6th place despite a bib 58. This is her best result in the World Cup and her first Top 10. Marie Lamure takes 15th place and Clarisse Brèche finished 25th.
The Women’s Alpine Skiing World Cup continues on Friday at Altermarkt in Austria, where two super-Gs and a downhill are on the program for the weekend.
