Gisin ends Shiffrin-Vlhova slalom stranglehold

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(Reuters) – Michelle Gisin on Tuesday turned the primary Swiss girl in almost 19 years to win a World Cup Alpine snowboarding slalom when she completed first beneath the floodlights in Semmering, Austria.

The victory within the final ladies’s race of the yr additionally ended a dominant run by American Mikaela Shiffrin and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova, who between them had received each World Cup slalom since January 2017 — a sequence of 28 races.

“It’s loopy. I broke the unimaginable run of two giants,” mentioned Gisin.

Shiffrin had led after the primary leg by 0.02 however Gisin, the 2018 Olympic mixed gold medallist, went sooner over the second run.

“I used to be actually pushing on the second run and I didn’t deal with that very effectively. I made some errors, however then once more, I may have been out of the course,” mentioned Shiffrin, who completes a calendar yr and not using a slalom win for the primary time since 2012.

Austria’s Katharina Liensberger completed second, 0.11 slower, with Shiffrin third for her forty third podium within the final 46 slaloms.

The final Swiss girl to win a World Cup slalom was Marlies Oester in Berchtesgaden in January 2002.