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Overall World Cup leader Schwarz suffers season-ending knee injury. Sarrazin wins Stelvio downhill
Read full article: Overall World Cup leader Schwarz suffers season-ending knee injury. Sarrazin wins Stelvio downhillOverall World Cup leader Marco Schwarz has suffered a season-ending knee injury at an eventful downhill on the Stelvio.
Swiss skier Odermatt wins GS, sets World Cup points record
Read full article: Swiss skier Odermatt wins GS, sets World Cup points recordSwiss skier Marco Odermatt broke the 23-year-old men’s record for most World Cup points in a single season after dominating the giant slalom at the World Cup Finals.
Manuel Feller wins season-ending World Cup slalom race
Read full article: Manuel Feller wins season-ending World Cup slalom raceLENZERHEIDE – Rising from sixth place after the first run in a World Cup slalom, Manuel Feller won the season-ending race on Sunday. First-run leader Marco Schwarz, who already took the season-long slalom title, lost speed in a difficult section of gates and dropped to sixth place. Alexis Pinturault placed third, 0.11 behind Feller, to end his season in style one day after winning a giant slalom to secure his first overall World Cup title. Pinturault was the first Frenchman to win the overall title for 24 years and an emotional weekend for the team saw Jean-Baptiste Grange race for the last time in the World Cup. The 36-year-old Grange retires with slalom gold medals from the 2011 and 2015 world championships.
The Latest: Schwarz inspired by Kriechmayr at skiing worlds
Read full article: The Latest: Schwarz inspired by Kriechmayr at skiing worldsCombined champion Marco Schwarz says he was inspired by the two gold medals Austrian teammate Vincent Kriechmayr has won at this year's skiing world championships. ___3:50 p.m.Marco Schwarz won the men’s combined to give Austria its third gold medal at the skiing world championships. Brignone beat Elena Curtoni by 0.01 as Italy went 1-2 in the super-G portion with Shiffrin looming in third. Brignone will open the decisive slalom portion at 2:10 p.m.Home nation Italy has not won a medal in the first four events of the worlds. Two-time combined world champion Wendy Holdener of Switzerland finished 0.97 behind.
Austria's Schwarz wins World Cup slalom to lead standings
Read full article: Austria's Schwarz wins World Cup slalom to lead standingsADELBODEN – Marco Schwarz salvaged Austria’s tough weekend in Switzerland by winning a World Cup slalom on Sunday to lead the season-long standings. Dave Ryding was third, trailing Schwarz by 0.15, to give the British racer his third career podium and best result in traditional slalom for four years. Schwarz had been third in the previous slalom, on Wednesday at Zagreb, Croatia, when Strasser got his first World Cup win in the discipline. This was a third World Cup win for Schwarz, who took a bronze medal in slalom at the 2019 world championships. He took a small lead in the slalom standings from teammate Manuel Feller, who did not complete his first run.