Mikaela Shiffrin leads the World Cup slalom in Flachau after 30 racers. Camille Rast and Wendy Holdener lose around eight tenths of a second to the American in intermediate positions 4 and 5.
13.01.2026, 18:43
13.01.2026, 18:44
SDA
Five-time season winner Shiffrin is well on her way to her sixth triumph in the night slalom in Flachau. The 30-year-old is 19 hundredths ahead of her compatriot Paula Moltzan and 35 hundredths ahead of local Katharina Truppe in Salzburgerland.
The best Swiss women follow directly behind, but with a slight time gap. Last year's winner Camille Rast, who won the last slalom in Kranjska Gora and thus ended Shiffrin's winning streak, lost 78 hundredths to the leader after a few small mistakes. Wendy Holdener, who finished second behind Rast a year ago, lost two hundredths more than her team-mate and still has a chance of her 40th World Cup podium finish in her showpiece discipline.
Eliane Christen had a good first run. Although the athlete from Uri lost almost two seconds, she is in an excellent 9th intermediate place due to the large gaps. Mélanie Meillard is far from her form of last season. The skier from western Switzerland is likely to miss the second run, which starts at 20:45, with a deficit of 4.24 seconds. Last winter, she finished in the top ten in eight out of ten slaloms.
