Slalom World Cup | Camille Rast victorious, Laurence St-Germain finishes 11th

(Flachau) Switzerland’s Camille Rast signed her second World Cup victory by winning the Flachau slalom ahead of her compatriot Wendy Holdener, while Quebec’s Laurence St-Germain finished in 11^e place.

This victory for Rast allows him to once again rise to the top of the general rankings and the discipline.

Rast took advantage of the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova, both injured, to win this slalom presented in the evening with a frenetic second descent, which took her from eighth to first place. Rast finished his two runs in one minute, 55.03 seconds (1:55.03), 16 hundredths better than Holdener.

The reigning Olympic giant slalom champion, Swede Sara Hector, finished third, 38 hundredths behind.

St-Germain, 10^e after the first run, slipped one place to finish in 1:56.36. Canadian Amelia Smart (1:57.15) finished 17th^e. Kiki Alexander did not complete the first round.

Rast became the first skier other than Shiffrin or Vlhova to win this annual evening classic since Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter in 2017.

Leader after the first run, local favorite Katharina Liensberger ran into trouble in her second run on the Griessenkar slope and finished just off the podium

Rast had never been on a World Cup podium before this season, when she also finished third in addition to her two victories. The Helvetian returned to first place in the slalom rankings with 405 points, 60 better than Holdener. Croatian Zrinka Ljutic, winner of the last two slaloms, did not qualify for the second round. She is third at 309 points.

St-Germain is in 12^e place, at 117 points.

In the general classification, Rast is 26 points ahead of Hector at the top, 533 to 507.