Swiss Skier Rast Leads, Shiffrin occupies third place in the first Slalom race in Alpine World Championships

Saalbach-Hintergymm, Austria (AP)-Swiss camillera rash rash built a great advantage and Mikaela Shiffrin was coming thirdly in the opening of the Women’s Slaom in the Alpine World Championship on Saturday.

Rast finished 0.58 seconds ahead of Katharina Lienberger from Austria, who won the world title of Slalom in 2021.

Shiffrin had 0.72 to compensate in the second race later on Saturday.

“I think that was one of the best skiing I’ve done lately,” said the American star, who pursues her Record the 16th career medal in the world.

Shiffrin won the gold with his American teammate Breezy Johnson in the Combined equipment Tuesday but hindered The Giant Slalom two days later. It was not yet felt to run GS after recovering from an abdominal injury suffered in a Crash GS in Killington, Vermont In November.

“It was a great challenge to keep the pace, and for me especially at the end of the course,” said Shiffrin. “It’s like 15 seconds more than anything that has skied since before Killington. I don’t have a lot in my legs.”

Shiffrin has won a medal in Slalom, including four in gold, in the six previous world championships in which he competed since 2013.

“What I saw from Camille, she was so light … Taking all the speed of the course,” Shiffrin said. “And that was really impressive to me, because it is not easy to do it on this hill.”

RAST leads the classification of the Slalom season after obtaining the first two victories in the World Cup from his career.

“I simply did my thing and found my flow,” said Rast, who is competing in his fifth world, but has not yet won a medal, although he won gold in Slalom in the 2017 World Junior Championship.

“No one is outside the medal race yet, in Slalom everything can happen,” he added. “The sun is there, it is warming, so the course will look a bit affected (in the second race). It is still open.

Rast teammate, Wendy Holder, had eight tenths of the room in the fourth.

The American teammate in Shiffrin, Paula Moltzan, was 1.55 late in the fifth. Moltzan won his first individual career medal taking the bronze on Thursday Slalom giant.

Zrinka Ljutic was one of the favorites before the race after winning three of the last four Slaloms in the World Cup circuit, but Croatian finished 2.14 seconds behind.

Defensor Laurence St-Germain champion of Canada did not finish his career.

Slalom Petra Vlhova’s Olympic champion did not compete, since he is still recovering from knee surgery a year ago. The prominent Slovak told Austrian TV that “he had no idea” when he could return to the races.

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