World Cup 2021 - Petra Vlhova powers to slalom win in Are to move ahead of Lara Gut-Behrami

ByEurosport

Updated 12/03/2021 at 18:01 GMT

The victory was the 20th World Cup success of Petra Vlhova’s career, and she will have high hopes of repeating the feat and doing the double on Saturday. Katharina Liensberger and Mikaela Shiffrin completed the podium places and will have work to do to deny the slalom standings leader another victory at the weekend.

Petra cemented her position at the head of the slalom tree, and usurped Lara Gut-Behrami at the top of the overall standings, with victory in Are.

Backing up her win on Sunday on home snow in the giant slalom, Vlhova produced a run of 1:45.16 to edge out Katharina Liensberger and Mikaela Shiffrin.

The victory was the 20th World Cup success of Vlhova’s career, and she will have high hopes of repeating the feat and doing the double on Saturday.

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World champion Liensberger had an excellent run of 1:45.36 and it made Vlhova work extremely hard to claim the win.

The victory enabled Vlhova to extend her lead over Shiffrin to 85 points in the race for the slalom title, while she is now 64 ahead of Gut-Behrami in the overall standings.

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Shiffrin started well but made a huge error towards the top and it cost her dear. The American powered through the remainder of the course, but the damage was too big and she had to settle for a place on the podium in third place with a time of 1:45.80.

British skier Charlie Guest had a tough second run, as a couple of errors saw her finish 23rd with a time of 1:48.80

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