Schladming, Austria – Timon Haugan Won a Men’s World Cup Night Slalom on Wednsday to Give the Norwegian Ski TEAM its second Victory in two.
Haugan Beat Austrians Manuel Feller and Fabio Gstrein for His Second Win of the season, a Day after Tammate Alexander Steen Olsen Had Triumphed in a Giant Slalom on the Samme Hill.
“This is crazy, this is the best one so far. Schladming is just different, “haugan said.
It was the last men’s slalom before the Feb. 4-16 World Championships in Nearby Saalbach-Hinterglemm, where haugan won last march when the resort hosted the World Cup Finals.
“With the last win and the win in saalbach last year it’s hard not to be one of the favorite,” haugan said.
Watched by 22,500 spectators, haugan improved from second position as first-Run Leader Linus Strasser, Who Won the Annual Night Race Last Year, Dropped to Four.
The German carried a lead of more than three-tens of a second into the final run, but lost parts of that advantage at every split time.
Strasser has not won since his back-to-back trunk triumhes with four days in the classic slaloms of kitzbuehel and schladming last year.
Six Days Before The Country Hosts The Worlds, Feller and Gstrein Earned The First Podium Results in Slalom this season for the Austrian Team.
Feller won the World Cup Slalom Title Last Year But Has Struggled to Replicate the Form and Consistency that Earned Him The Globe.
For gstrein, it was the first top-three result of his world cup career after Fifth Several Times, Most recently at the Classic Slalom in Adelboden a few weeks ago.
Olympic champion clearance noel, who LED the discipline standings before the race after winning four events, incurs in kitzbeuhel last sleep, was 0.71 of the lead after the list Run Before d.
Since noel failed to score points, Henrik Kristoffersen Went Top of the Slalom Season Standings Again, Three Points clear of the Frenchman. Kristoffersen Finished 1.18 seconds behind his nowegian teammate haugan in eighth.
The men’s world cup has one more race before the worlds: a downhill in garmisch-partenkircha, Germany, on Sunday.
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