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Raphael Haaser stuns to win Alpine worlds giant slalom, ends Swiss men's bid for gold sweep
Raphael Haaser stuns to win Alpine worlds giant slalom, ends Swiss men's bid for gold sweep

NBC Sports

time14-02-2025

  • Sport
  • NBC Sports

Raphael Haaser stuns to win Alpine worlds giant slalom, ends Swiss men's bid for gold sweep

Austrian Raphael Haaser went from fifth place to win the World Alpine Skiing Championships giant slalom, the first top-level victory of his career. Haaser, 27, prevailed by 23 hundredths of a second over Swiss Thomas Tumler combining times from two runs in Saalbach, Austria, on Friday. The Swiss finished second, third (Loic Meillard) and fourth (defending world champion Marco Odermatt). Haaser ended the Swiss bid to sweep the men's golds at worlds after they won the first three events. There is still a slalom on Sunday. ALPINE SKIING WORLDS: Results | Broadcast Schedule Haaser was fifth place after the first run, 62 hundredths behind leader Timon Haugan of Norway. Haaser had the fourth-fastest second run, while none of the top four men from the first run finished in the 19 of the second run. Haaser, who has yet to win on the World Cup circuit, now has a world championships medal of every color (super-G silver last Friday, plus a combined bronze in 2023). River Radamus was the top American on Friday in 17th. Worlds continue Saturday with the women's slalom featuring Mikaela Shiffrin, live at 3:45 and 7:15 a.m. ET on Peacock. Nick Zaccardi,

Austria's Haaser storms to giant slalom gold
Austria's Haaser storms to giant slalom gold

Reuters

time14-02-2025

  • Sport
  • Reuters

Austria's Haaser storms to giant slalom gold

SAALBACH, Austria, Feb 14 - Austria's Raphael Haaser won the gold medal in the men's giant slalom at the Alpine Skiing World Championships after a storming second run on Friday. Outsider Haaser, fifth after the first run, took the title by 0.23 seconds from Swiss Thomas Tumler with another Swiss skier, Loic Meillard, in third place. It was Austria's second gold medal of the championships on home snow and first in the men's events.

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