Slalom Levi, Mikaela Shiffrin blows away competition
Mikaela Shiffrin dominates Levi slalom
As predicted, the first special slalom of the 2024/2025 Alpine Skiing World Cup goes to Mikaela Shiffrin: the American athlete won with relative ease on the snow of Black Levi, one of the slopes in the ski resort of Levi, Finland. Already dominating the first run, Shiffrin controlled easily in the second run, even allowing herself the sixth fastest time of the split.
That's 79 hundredths ahead, at the finish, of the runner-up, Katharina Liensberger of Austria. Third, at 83 hundredths, German Lena Duerr. All the others finished at least more than a second behind, starting with Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson, fourth at 1.28.
Rounding out the day's top 10 are Switzerland's Camille Rast, Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic, the other Swiss Melanie Meillard, the U.S. Paula Moltzan, Germany's Emma Aicher (who set the best time in the second run, which enabled her to climb from 22nd to 9th place) and Canada's Laurence St-Germain.
Only one Italian skier was able to qualify for the second leg: she was Martina Peterlini, who in the morning set the 16th time, 2.03 behind Shiffrin, while in the second run she made a couple of mistakes and dropped one position, finishing 17th (tied with Sweden’s Cornelia Oehlund), 2.78 behind the winner.
Out after the first run Marta Rossetti (thirty-seventh), Beatrice Sola, (forty-fourth), guinta ahead of two other Azzurre, Giorgia Collomb and Lucrezia Lorenzi, Vera Tschurtschenthaler (fifty-second). Retired Lara Della Mea.
