Alpine skiing Nef and Yule in the top 7 - Norwegian Haugan in the lead

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26.1.2025 - 11:09

Tanguy Nef defies the icy slope and the increasing rain in Kitzbühel
Tanguy Nef defies the icy slope and the increasing rain in Kitzbühel
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Tanguy Nef and Daniel Yule start the second run of the slalom in Kitzbühel from a favorable position. The two Swiss skiers are in 5th and 7th place, while Loïc Meillard has to tremble.

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Nef came within half a second of the best time set by Norway's Timon Haugan, the winner of Alta Badia and runner-up in Wengen, in increasingly heavy rain in race number 16. The man from Geneva was 24 hundredths off the podium for the first time in his career.

Frenchman Steven Amiez and Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, competing for Brazil, took second and third place, followed by three-time winner of the season Clément Noël. Henrik Kristoffersen, the leader in the slalom World Cup ahead of Loïc Meillard, retired on the heavily iced slope with a single thread.

Meillard will need to improve on his recent 5th place in Wengen in the afternoon if he is to finish in the top 30 again. The man from Neuchâtel, who has finished on the podium in four of the seven slaloms so far this winter, lost almost two seconds to Haugan due to a mistake after a fast start, around three tenths more than Ramon Zenhäusern.

The second run starts at 1.30 pm.