On a tricky second run set by Vlhova's assistant coach Matej Gemza, and with falling snow making life more difficult, Sweden’s Hanna Aronsson Elfman announced herself as a woman to watch. I could hear the crowd at the start of this run and that was amazing."Īfter Saturday's giant slalom was cancelled due to high winds, calmer conditions greeted the women for the third World Cup slalom of the season. "It means even more to do it in the second run and it's special to win these races here. A small mistake, not as big as Petra's mistake, but just starting to bring back the fight. I was quite happy with how I skied the second (run). The American said, "It was a big fight today.
She eventually fought back the tears to speak in her interview after scoring her fifth Killington slalom win from five attempts.
Shiffrin, 26, spent some of her schooldays in Vermont and the occasion - her first completed race in the United States since the passing of her father Jeff last year - was all too much for her. She managed to hold on for second place as Shiffrin equalled Ingemar Stenmark's record of 46 World Cup wins in a single discipline with the Swede achieving that feat in giant slalom.Īustria's reigning slalom series champion Katharina Liensberger was fourth with Germany's Lena Duerr continuing her fine start to the season in fifth. The Slovak star, fresh from last weekend's double in Levi, Finland, started well but then had to almost stop to make a gate and lost all her speed.
She went into the lead by 0.83s from Swiss skier Wendy Holdener with just Vlhova to go.
Mikaela Shiffrin made history on home snow with victory in the Killington World Cup slalom on Sunday (28 November).Īfter trailing Petra Vlhova by two-tenths after the first run, the double Olympic champion gave it everything on her second run accompanied by deafening roars from the Vermont crowd.
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