Zrinka Ljutic scares away Mikaela Shiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin makes 95

The slalom in Jasna è belongs to Mikaela Shiffrin. On the Slovakian slope, the American takes success number 95 in her career in the World Cup and confirms herself as the absolute leader of world skiing, confirming the first place of the first run but with only 14 hundredths of a margin over Croatian 19-year-old Zrinka Ljutic, who thus returns to the podium after a year since the only previous one. Third place then went to Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson (+0″81) who left behind a Swiss trio composed in the order of Camille Rast, Melanie Meillard and Michelle Gisin.

Good twelfth place for Martina Peterlini who improves by one place what she achieved during the week in Flachau by entering the points zone for the fourth time this season. The detachment of the policewoman from Trentino è of 2″93 while Marta Rossetti, the only other Italian to hit the qualification, did not reach the finish line.

Not qualified in the first run instead were Lucrezia Lorenzi, Vera Tschurtschenthaler and Beatrice Sola while Lara Della Mea and Emilia Mondinelli exited. Mikaela Shiffrin remains firmly in command of both the overall (1209) and slalom (630) rankings: The women’s World Cup now moves to Cortina d’Ampezzo to take on the Tofane Olympia, which will set the stage between Friday, Jan. 26 and Sunday, Jan. 28, for two downhill runs followed by a super-giant.