2024-01-16 18:07:51
The women’s World Cup night slalom in Flachau once again boils down to a duel between Petra Vlhova and Mikaela Shiffrin. Defending champion Vlhova leads record winner Shiffrin by seven hundredths of a second after the first round of the highlight in Salzburg. Third-placed Swede Anna Swenn Larsson was already 0.52 seconds behind. As the best Austrian, Katharina Liensberger finished fifth in one of her favorite races (+1.05).
Katharina Gallhuber and Katharina Huber, who also competed in front of their home crowd with high expectations, were eliminated after driving errors in the first run. Gallhuber threaded in the middle section, Huber missed a goal because he was off balance. The second best Austrian was Katharina Troupe, who entered the decision (8:45 p.m./live ORF 1) from outside the top 12, 1.90 seconds behind Vlhova.
Vlhova and Shiffrin have won all six slaloms of the season so far – three by the Slovakian, three by the American. However, Shiffrin’s preparation for the most valuable women’s race in the World Cup, which she has won four times so far, was turbulent. The 28-year-old traveled to the hospital in Bern on Saturday to see her friend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who was injured in the Wengen downhill run, and only returned to Austria on Sunday evening. She skipped the speed races at the weekend in Zauchensee due to a minor illness.
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