Alpine skiing, Aare World Cup: Vlhova triumphs, Bassino second ahead of Shiffrin

Petra Vlhova dominates the giant slalom in Aare, the penultimate round of the 2021/2022 Alpine Skiing Women’s World Cup. On the Swedish snow, the Slovakian sets an overall time of 2’32 “59, ahead of Marta Bassino by 1” 24, who confirms her second place in the first heat and conquers the third podium of the season. Third place for the leader of the general, the American Mikaela Shiffrin (+1 “70) to complete a podium of big names. Fourth the French Tessa Worley, who exploits the exit of the hostess Sara Hector and remains in the race for the cup The other Italian remaining in the race, Karoline Pichler, 26th (+5 “72), makes up four positions.

General classification

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Thanks to this success, Petra Vlhova climbs to 1139 points, just 77 points below the leader Mikaela Shiffrin (1216) when there are just 5 races left at the end of the season. Federica Brignone, despite today’s crash, remains in third place at 931. The giant’s ranking records the overtaking of Worley at the top with 522 points ahead of Hector with 517 points, Shiffrin is third with 471, Bassino fifth with 276 and Brignone sixth with 216. The latter two qualify by right for the final in Meribel, which will also be attended by Curtoni and Goggia for having conquered over 500 points in the World Cup.