Liensberger earns slalom win in Are

Katharina Liensberger (AUT) returned to winning ways in the Are, which gave her her first World Cup success a year ago. 
The Austrian world champion recovered from fifth place and beat the real surprise of the day, Mina Fuerst Holtmann (NOR), by 16 hundredths. The third place went to Michelle Gisin (SUI), who took three podiums in three different disciplines this year.

Lena Duerr (GER), who was in the lead after the first run, was fifth, just 34 hundredths away from her first career success in slalom.

Slalom queens Petra Vlhova (SVK) and Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) were left off the podium. Today's result ignites the fight for the overall ranking, with the Slovakian, fourth, taking 21 points from the American, only ninth today. The gap is now 56 as we enter the week of the Courchevel-Meribel finals.