With an awesome performance in the second run of the slalom for the World Cup in alpine skiing in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, the winner of the big crystal globe Petra Vlhova won her fifth victory in six starts in the discipline since the beginning of the season.
The Slovak was second after the first run, but in the second she had no difficulties and erased the delay of 0.08 against the leader Wendy Holdener (Switzerland), who again missed her first victory. However, the Swiss finished second, and the top three were filled by the Swede Anna Swenn-Larsson, who remained at 1.06 behind Petra Vlhova.
With her fifth victory, the Slovak is very close to the small globe, as her lead over the second in the standings Mikaela Shiffrin is as many as 240 points with three starts remaining until the end of the season. The American made an unusual mistake for her today and failed to finish the race, recording zero. Third, in the discipline 19 points behind Mikaela Shiffrin is Wendy Holdener.
In the overall standings for the World Cup, despite its zero today, the leader with 886 points remains Mikaela Shiffrin, second with 831 is the current winner of the big globe Petra Vlhova, and third with 657 is Sofia Goggia (Italy). As expected, the Italian specialist in the speed disciplines did not start in today’s slalom.
The Women’s World Cup program continues on Tuesday with the night slalom in Schladming, Austria, which was originally scheduled to take place in Flachau, but measures against COVID-19 in Salzburg made it impossible.
