Ljutic wins the slalom by a hair in front of Holdener, Lamure wins the Top 10

The Croatian nugget has struck again. Zrinka Ljutic brilliantly won the Kranjska Gora slalom, counting for the Alpine Ski World Cup, at the end of a very tough race ahead of the Swiss Wendy Holdener and the Swede Anna Swenn-Larsson, to conclude a Slovenian weekend on Sunday successful.

The 20-year-old prodigy is the first Croatian to win on the Podkoren track. And in what way! Titillated by her rival Holdener, during the first round which they both finished in the same time (50″82), she was solid from one end to the other of the second to win in 1′ 39 ″62.

After a fast start, she gained time on Holdener, sector by sector, before releasing the horses for a breathtaking finish. Convinced of having struck a major blow, she exploded with joy in the finish area, sharing a moving moment of communion with the public won over to her cause. She beat Holdener by 0.16 and Swenn-Larsson, 4th in the first round, by 1.19.

Ljutic and Holdener at the same time: relive their first round

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This is the second victory for Ljutic who has dominated the last four slalom events of this season with his success last weekend in Semmering. With 456 points, she also takes first place in the general classification of the World Cup ahead of the Swede Sara Hector (447 pts), sixth in the race, and finds herself at the top of the specialties classification (309 pts).