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NBC Sports
16-02-2025
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- NBC Sports
Meillard caps historic Alpine Champs. for Swiss
Loïc Meillard's third medal in five days, this one gold in the men's slalom, capped a historically dominant World Alpine Skiing Championships for the Swiss, who broke the men's record with nine medals overall.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
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- Yahoo
Meillard wins slalom gold at world championships after Clement slips
Swiss Loïc Meillard claimed his maiden individual gold medal at a world championships with a dramatic triumph in the slalom in Austria's Saalbach-Hinterglemm on Sunday. After a second place in the opening run, Meillard took the lead with a total time of 1 minute 54.02 seconds. Only first-run leader Clement Noel could beat him, but the Olympic champion lost balance and couldn't finish his race. Noel won slalom gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and has four slalom wins this season, but is yet to medal at a world championships. Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath was 0.26s behind to take silver and Linus Strasser completed the podium to take Germany's sole medal at this year's worlds. For both it was a first individual world title. Meillard has just one career slalom World Cup victory, in Aspen just under a year ago. But this season he has finished second twice and third twice in the discipline on the World Cup circuit. It was his third medal in Saalbach-Hinterglemm after team combined gold and giant slalom bronze. "Three medals at a world championships is simply brilliant. After Schladming (last World Cup stop before the worlds) I had a few quiet days of training, which also helped me at the world championships. It is brilliant to be part of this Swiss team, you can only enjoy it," Meillard said. With Meillard's triumph, Switzerland ended the world championships as the most successful nation with 13 medals (five gold, five silver and three bronze). The Swiss team claimed women's slalom gold thanks to Camille Rast, the other four came from the men's events. McGrath was very pleased with his silver medal, especially after he missed the 2023 world championships due to a cruciate ligament tear. "It was difficult to watch," the Norwegian said. Sunday's race was the final event of the worlds. For the men, the World Cup season resume on February 20-23 in Crans Montana, Switzerland, while the women head to Sestriere, Italy on February 21-23.
NBC Sports
16-02-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Loic Meillard wins slalom to cap dominant World Alpine Skiing Championships for Swiss men
Loïc Meillard won slalom gold, his third medal in five days, to lift the Swiss to the record for most medals in men's events in World Alpine Skiing Championships history. Meillard prevailed by 26 hundredths of a second over Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath combining times from two runs in Saalbach, Austria. German Linus Strasser earned bronze. Clément Noël, the Olympic gold medalist from France, led after the first run. He skied out in the closing gates of the second run having trailed Meillard by 16 hundredths at the last intermediate time check. The Swiss men finished worlds with four gold medals in five events and nine medals overall, breaking the record of eight medals for a men's team at worlds shared by the French men in 1966 and the Austrian men in 1962. ALPINE SKIING: Results | World Cup Broadcast Schedule Switerland's 13 total medals and five golds at these worlds in all events marked the best output for one nation since Austria had the same numbers in 1999. Swiss Meillard and Wendy Holdener won the most medals at these worlds — three each. Meillard earned team combined gold Wednesday and giant slalom bronze Friday. Worlds Championships highlights air Sunday at 4 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Nick Zaccardi,
