Olympic champion Carlo Janka of Switzerland won a men’s World Cup giant slalom race yesterday, 10 days after having surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat.
The defending overall champion was second after the opening leg and finished in a combined time of 2 minutes, 27.05 seconds for his first victory of the season.
French teenager Alexis Penturault had a blistering second run to jump from 16th to second, trailing Janka by 0.02 seconds, while world giant slalom champion Ted Ligety of the US was 0.12 seconds back in third.
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Philipp Schoerghofer of Austria, who held a commanding lead after the first run, skied out.
WOMEN’S DOWNHILL
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Lindsey Vonn of the US clinched her fourth consecutive downhill crystal globe yesterday by finishing second to Anja Paerson, who posted her first victory of a frustrating season.
Paerson clocked 1 minute, 26.91 seconds down the Prampero course to record a commanding win in a season hampered by knee problems.
It was the 42nd World Cup victory of the Swede’s career, improving her fourth-place position on the all-time list and moving her two in front of Vonn.
Vonn finished 0.73 seconds behind and now holds an insurmountable 143-point lead in the downhill standings over German rival Maria Riesch, who finished sixth but remains the World Cup overall leader.
Riesch is now just 136 points ahead in the overall rankings, with Vonn favored to make up more ground in today’s super-G.
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