Swedish skier Hector beats Shiffrin for 1st win in 7 years

Hector gained by .35 seconds a day after ending runner-up to Shiffrin in one other GS on the identical hill for her first podium end in a 12 months.

“It’s superb. It’s unbelievable, and I’m so stunned, too,” Hector stated. “It was such an enormous struggle and I didn’t suppose I used to be so quick. I really feel so superior. It’s loopy. I’m so proud.”

World Cup big slalom champion Marta Bassino trailed by six-tenths in third place after failing to attain factors within the first two GS races of the season. Tessa Worley of France, who was second after the opening run, dropped to fourth, adopted by defending total champion Petra Vlhova in fifth.

Shiffrin’s major challenger within the total standings, Sofia Goggia, failed to attain World Cup factors for a second straight day. The American now leads her by 115 factors.

Goggia slid off the course after she misplaced her stability in a left flip midway by means of her opening run. The Italian skied out within the second leg of Tuesday’s race.

Federica Brignone, the 2020 total champion, additionally failed to complete her second run.

Paula Moltzan of the USA completed thirteenth after gaining 15 spots with a robust second run, having solely simply made the flip in twenty eighth after the opening run.

World champion Lara Intestine-Behrami, slalom World Cup winner Katharina Liensberger, and Alice Robinson sat out the occasion following constructive COVID-19 exams.

The race changed the GS that was canceled in Killington, Vermont, in November due to sturdy winds.

The ladies’s World Cup continues with one other GS and a slalom in Lienz, Austria, subsequent week.

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