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Yahoo
27-03-2025
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Norway's Kristoffersen clinches slalom title, teammate Haugan closes World Cup season with win
Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen reacts after a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen skis during a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Norway's Timon Haugan skis during a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Norway's Timon Haugan skis during a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen reacts after a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen reacts after a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen reacts after a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen skis during a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Norway's Timon Haugan skis during a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Norway's Timon Haugan skis during a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen reacts after a men's slalom run at the World Cup Finals, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/John Locher) SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway clinched the season-long slalom title Thursday by taking fourth in a race won by teammate Timon Haugan to close out the World Cup finals. After finishing, Kristoffersen dropped to the snow and pounded his chest. He held off Swiss racer Loic Meillard in the standings to earn his fourth slalom crystal globe. Haugan's win propelled him into third place in the standings. Haugan, the first-run leader, found a smooth line through a deteriorating course to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 43.61 seconds. He beat Clement Noel of France by 0.03 seconds as the World Cup season came to a close. Austria's Fabio Gstrein took third. Advertisement Kristoffersen has been the model of consistency this season. He's been inside the top eight in 11 of 12 World Cup slalom races this season, including two wins. He joins Alberto Tomba with four slalom World Cup crystal globes, which trails Ingemar Stenmark (eight) and Marcel Hirscher (six). Linus Strasser of Germany had a close call in his first run when a course worker walked onto the hill and through his line while he was competing. Strasser just kept right on going. He finished the day in sixth place. American Benjamin Ritchie had a fast final run to move up to seventh place. The final overall World Cup standings on the men's side saw Marco Odermatt of Switzerland finish with 1,721 points, Kristoffersen earn 1,116 and Meillard 1,076. ___ AP skiing:
Yahoo
27-03-2025
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Norway's Haugan grabs men's slalom lead at World Cup Final
Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen competes in the first run of the men's slalom at Sun Valley (Christian Petersen) Norway's Timon Haugan took the lead after the opening run of the men's slalom on Thursday's last day of the alpine ski World Cup Final. The 28-year-old Norwegian seeks his fourth career World Cup race victory, all in slalom. He has won twice this season, in December at Alta Badia, Italy and last month in Schladming, Austria. Haugan led after the opening run with a time of 51.39 seconds with France's Clement Noel next, 0.10sec back, and season points leader Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway third in 51.53. Advertisement Kristoffersen could be overtaken by Noel and Swiss reigning world champion Loic Meillard, who stood eighth on 53.07, for the globe in the final race. There was nearly a serious incident when a skier checking the slope condition crossed in front of German racer Linus Strasser. rg/js/ea
Yahoo
26-03-2025
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Meillard beats Odermatt for second straight giant slalom win
(L-R) Norway's second placed Henrik Kristoffersen, Switzerland's winner Marco Odermatt and Switzerland's third placed Loic Meillard celebrate on the podium after the Giant Slalom ski racing discipline for the 2024/2025 FIS Alpine season. Christopher Levy/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Loic Meillard kept his strong form upstaged Marco Odermatt in a Swiss one-two in the final giant slalom of the World Cup season on Wednesday. Maillard held on to a first run lead to beat team mate Odermatt by a massive .95 of a second for a second straight giant slalom success, a third season win and a seventh overall. Odermatt rose from fifth the second and Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen completed the podium in third, 1.14 seconds off the pace. Advertisement Odermatt had already clinched the discipline title before Wednesday's finale, on the podium in all seven races he completed after going out in the first two, for three victories and runner-up spots each, and one third place. He ended the season with eight victories, and heads into the off-season with the same four titles as last year, overall, downhill, super-g and giant slalom. He has four overall and giant slalom titles in his career, three in the super-g and two in the downhill. "I am very happy with a another podium. Loic is in amazing shape, he deserves it and I am super happy, too. This is nice after a slow season start. I was able to keep my level," said Odermatt, who also won the super-g world title last month. "Every globe is super hard to win. The others are pushing me." Advertisement The alpine season concludes on Thursday with slalom races for men and women, and both titles are still up for grabs. Slalom and team combined world champion Meillard can complete a Swiss sweep of all men's titles if he makes up a 47-point deficit on Kristoffersen. "It will be a battle," he told Eurosport, while Kristoffersen said: "It will be painful for the mind."
CBC
02-03-2025
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Kristoffersen caps winning weekend taking World Cup men's slalom in comeback fashion
Social Sharing Henrik Kristoffersen came from behind to win a men's World Cup slalom on Sunday for his second victory in two days in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. The 2023 world champion from Norway stood sixth with 0.62 seconds to make up after the opening run, but his ninth-fastest time in the final run on a weakening course in the afternoon sunshine was enough for the victory in a combined time of one minute 39.26 seconds. Kristoffersen, who also won Saturday's giant slalom, led Timon Haugan by 0.17 (1:39.43) for a Norwegian 1-2 finish. "It was a good second run. I think I still messed up the top and the second part a little bit," Kristoffersen said. "Very tight today, so I'm lucky to be on the right side of the hundredths." It was the first time Kristoffersen won a GS and a slalom race in the same weekend. "This was a big goal for me, so very happy with today," he said. WATCH | Kristoffersen takes slalom by 0.17 seconds over teammate Haugan: Norway's Kristoffersen claims another victory this weekend in Kranjska Gora, this time in the slalom 20 minutes ago Duration 1:33 After a victory in Saturday's World Cup giant slalom race, Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen won Sunday's slalom competition in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Manuel Feller, the defending World Cup slalom champion, had the same time as Kristoffersen in the opening run and finished 0.23 behind in third (1:39.49). World champion Loic Meillard posted the fastest opening-run time but dropped to fourth, 1-100ths of a second behind Feller. Tough day for Canadians Meillard racked up four podium results in slalom this season. His sole career World Cup victory in the discipline came a year ago in Aspen, Colo. Jesse Kertesz-Knight of Jasper, Alta., was the lone Canadian to finish the opening run, placing last of 43 finishers. Calgary's Erik Read was among 25 athletes to not finish the first run. Victor Muffat-Jeandet, who wore bib 38 and qualified in 26th, had a blistering run as an early starter in the second leg and the Frenchman finished in sixth, four spots ahead of his teammate Clement Noel, who is the Olympic champion. WATCH | Kristofferson wins Saturday GS, his 1st of the season: Norway's Kristoffersen captures his 1st World Cup giant slalom win of the season 1 day ago Duration 2:34 With a winning time of 2:18.18 Henrik Kristoffersen won Saturday's World Cup giant slalom race in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Noel won four races this season but trails leader Kristoffersen by 77 points in the discipline standings. Kristoffersen is second in the overall standings, but still faces a big gap of 360 points to three-time defending champion Marco Odermatt. The Swiss star does not compete in slaloms. Lucas Pinheiro Braathen straddled a gate and didn't finish his first run, a day after he placed second in the GS to came close to giving Brazil its first World Cup victory in skiing.
CBC
02-03-2025
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Norway's Kristoffersen claims another victory this weekend in Kranjska Gora, this time in the slalom
After a victory in Saturday's World Cup giant slalom race, Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen won Sunday's slalom competition in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
