Henrik Kristoffersen came from behind to win his second men’s World Cup slalom in two days Sunday after the top three skiers from the first run failed to finish.
Kristoffersen became the first skier this season with multiple slalom victories after the previous seven races had seven different winners.
Kristoffersen was eighth after the opening leg, but the Norwegian took the lead with the fourth-fastest time in the final run for a combined time of one minute 52.66 seconds in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Kristoffersen then watched as the next seven racers all failed to beat his time, with four of them not even making it to the finish.
“That’s a shame, that’s never how you want to win it but, still, this is part of the game, part of the sport, so I’m super happy for another win,” Kristoffersen said.
WATCH | Kristoffersen 1st man with multiple slalom wins this season:
Norwegian skier Henrik Kristoffersen topped the world cup slalom podium in Germany on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. 2:05
The top three after the first run — Swiss skiers Loic Meillard and Ramon Zenhausern and Austria’s Johannes Strolz — straddled a gate on the icy course, where the first few gates were set to create unusually sharp turns, making it hard to find rhythm from the start.
It was a course for real men in the second run.— Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen on racing in icy conditions in Germany
World champion Sebastian Foss-Solevag also straddled and failed to score World Cup points.
The course was set by Tristan Glasse-Davies, the coach of Dave Ryding, and suited the British skier well, as he climbed from 19th to second, 0.35 behind Kristoffersen in 1:53.01.
5th career podium
Ryding’s fifth career podium came five weeks after he became the first British winner in the World Cup at the prestigious slalom in Kitzbuhel.
“It was a course for real men in the second run,” Kristoffersen said. “This is not for the boys, this is for the men, for sure.”
Germany’s Linus Strasser (1:53.13) was 0.47 behind in third, and Lucas Braathen improved from 24th to fourth.
Calgary’s Erik Read was 16th of 21 finishers in 1:54.30.
Braathen lost his lead in the slalom standings to teammate Kristoffersen, who has 356 points. Braathen is second on 307, Strasser third on 278.
The season calendar includes two more slaloms: a night race in Flachau on March 9 and the season closer at the World Cup Finals in Meribel starting on March 14.
Olympic champion Clement Noel skied out for the second straight day and is out of the race for the season slalom title.
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