Another golden double makes it 4 from 4 for France at Narvik 2026

France continued their gold rush as they added two more crowns to their opening-day double at the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Narvik, Norway.

Victor Haghighat (FRA) kickstarted the action with victory in the Super G in 40.36secs.

The 18-year-old passed the baton on to teammate Nash Huot-Marchand for the Slalom section of the Team Combined.

Despite falling 0.03secs off the pace, Huot-Marchand recaptured the time on the lower section to post 36.90secs for a combined 1:17.26 for victory by 0.17secs ahead of USA 3 with Norway 1 a further 0.04 behind in bronze.

Monday’s double means France has won all four golds on offer after two days of action at Narvik 2026.

On Sunday, Emy Charbonnier won the Super G before clinching the Team Combined with Ilona Charbotel.

Echoing ‘Team Charbo’s’ claim to being a dream team, Haghighat said: “We are in a room together, we make plans together, we are going to make a ski team together. So yes, it’s great.”

Huot-Marchand added: “He believes in me and I did that for us and for France.”

Haghighat was ninth to go in the Super G where he balanced aggressive racing with clean technique to head the field, 0.03secs ahead of Sandro Manser (SUI) with Jake Kerlesz-Knight (CAN) third, 0.21secs behind the Frenchman.

Narvik 2026 marks Haghighat’s FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships debut and he put victory down to his willingness to take chances.

“I think the key today was to take risks,” he said. “I took risks and I think it went well. Some little errors but maybe speed errors. Errors because I was going fast.”

Manser clinched silver for the second straight edition after he was 0.05secs shy of gold at Tarvisio 2025 behind Benno Brandis (GER) who DNF in Narvik.

The Swiss athlete has missed gold by a total of 0.08secs over two championships but he insisted he wouldn’t have changed a single thing in Narvik.

“I’m happy with my run today,” he said. “It was like I wanted it to go and I wouldn’t do something else. I’m happy with how it is.

As first to go, Kerlesz-Knight was in the dark about the course conditions.

He put his fine run down to “confidence, trusting your inspection, knowing where you’re going and just trusting that you know you can do it.”

The Team Combined got underway and a sizzling 34.78 Slalom run by Aleix Aubert Serracanta (ESP) elevated Spain1 to top spot, a giant leap after Roger Barcelo Castellet went 42.73secs for 38th in Super G.

They remained there until they were overhauled by the USA 3 duo of Aksel Lindenmeyr and Jevin Palmquist before Huot-Marchand’s intervention and eventually finished in a tie for fourth with Switzerland 1.

Lindenmeyr said: “I am really excited to do it with Jevin. I’m glad I could put down a good Super G run for him to be in position to get a medal.”

Rasmus Bakkevig guided Norway 1 to bronze after Sebastian Epsen Bengston’s went 40.97secs for sixth in the Super G.

Bakkevig said: “I saw Seb’s Super G run and I saw it was crazy fast. Then there are some mistakes and I thought this guy gave me some extra motivation there.”

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