Skir racer Lena Dürr ended the season with another podium. The 33-year-old drove in second place in the last slalom of winter in Sun Valley in the last 101st World Cup of US star Mikaela Shiffrin.
Third, the Slovenian Andreja Slokar was just one hundredth of a second behind. Dürr’s colleague Emma Aicher took 13th place. The Croatian Zrinka Ljutic, who became tenth, won the victory in the overall slalom ranking.
As in winter, there are a total of four World Cup podium positions for Dürr this season. At the WM Saalbach-Hinterglemm, she had to accept several disappointments. In her parade discipline, the slalom, she had become eighth. In Sun Valley, the Munich native now drove Famos – only Shiffrin was a whopping 1.13 seconds faster.
Changeable season for Shiffrin
The 30-year-old celebrated the triumphal end of an emotional season in front of a home crowd. The long-time alpine dominator had started the winter strongly, but was then heavily overthrown in Killington at the end of November and operated on in the abdomen because of a stab wound.
Shiffrin returned two months later, and at the World Cup in Austria she and Breezy Johnson won gold in the team combination. Shortly afterwards, she cracked the brand of 100 World Cup victories that was considered unreachable for a long time. Now she grabbed the next success.