Shock in Slalom as Frida Hansdotter wins gold and red-hot favourite Mikaela Shiffrin finishes fourth

ByEurosport

Updated 16/02/2018 at 06:49 GMT

Friday's Women's Slalom produced a huge shock as Mikaela Shiffrin failed to make the podium, with Sweden's Frida Hansdotter taking gold.

Olympia 2018: Frida Hansdotter holt Gold im Slalom

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Shiffrin went in to the race defending her Olympic title from 2014 and on the back of winning the Giant Slalom gold on Thursday. But the American stuttered in her first run, leaving her with work to do. And an error midway through her second run saw Shiffrin fail to take the top spot that so many expected.

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The rest of the field appeared as stunned as Shiffrin herself, but the experiences Frida Hansdotter grasped the opportunity with both hands, storming down in a time of 1:38.63 to take the lead with only Wendy Holdener (the leader after the first run) to go.

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And while Holdener produced a superb run of her own, the Swiss skier missed out by 5 hundredths of a second to take silver, with Austria's Hatarina Gallhuber finishing third.

Full Standings

1. Frida Hansdotter (Sweden) 49.09 49.54 1:38.63
2. Wendy Holdener (Switzerland) 48.89 49.79 1:38.68
3. Katharina Gallhuber (Austria) 50.12 48.83 1:38.95
4. Mikaela Shiffrin (U.S.) 49.37 49.66 1:39.03
5. Anna Swenn-Larsson (Sweden) 49.29 50.32 1:39.61
6. Nina Haver-Loseth (Norway) 49.75 50.41 1:40.16
7. Bernadette Schild (Austria) 49.89 50.29 1:40.18
8. Katharina Liensberger (Austria) 50.43 50.14 1:40.57
9. Chiara Costazza (Italy) 49.83 50.77 1:40.60
10. Irene Curtoni (Italy) 51.15 49.89 1:41.04
11. Erin Mielzynski (Canada) 51.83 49.66 1:41.49
12. Emelie Wikstrom (Sweden) 49.76 51.81 1:41.57
13. Petra Vlhova (Slovakia) 51.12 50.46 1:41.58
14. Denise Feierabend (Switzerland) 51.93 49.80 1:41.73
15. Laurence St-Germain (Canada) 50.94 50.86 1:41.80
16. Michelle Gisin (Switzerland) 51.43 50.42 1:41.85
17. Veronika Velez-Zuzulova (Slovakia) 51.46 50.61 1:42.07
18. Marusa Ferk (Slovenia) 51.29 50.79 1:42.08
19. Marina Wallner (Germany) 51.12 50.98 1:42.10
20. Nastasia Noens (France) 51.84 50.44 1:42.28
21. Meta Hrovat (Slovenia) 51.93 50.57 1:42.50
22. Maren Skjold (Norway) 51.44 51.18 1:42.62
23. Manuela Molgg (Italy) 51.40 51.35 1:42.75
24. Ana Bucik (Slovenia) 52.09 50.82 1:42.91
25. Kristin Lysdahl (Norway) 52.12 50.90 1:43.02
26. Nevena Ignjatovic (Serbia) 52.10 51.38 1:43.48
27. Roni Remme (Canada) 52.43 51.18 1:43.61
28. Maria Shkanova (Belarus) 52.50 51.71 1:44.21
. Christina Geiger (Germany) 51.44 DNF DNF
. Estelle Alphand (Sweden) 51.34 DNF DNF

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