Timon Haugan wins World Cup night time slalom to offer Norwegian ski crew 2nd victory in 2 days

Haugan beat Austrians Manuel Feller and Fabio Gstrein for his second win of the season, a day after teammate Alexander Steen Olsen had triumphed in an enormous slalom on the identical hill.

“That is loopy, that is the very best one thus far. Schladming is simply completely different,” Haugan mentioned.

It was the final males’s slalom earlier than the Feb. 4-16 world championships in close by Saalbach-Hinterglemm, the place Haugan gained final March when the resort hosted the World Cup finals.

“With the final win and the win in Saalbach final yr it is laborious to not be one of many favorites,” Haugan mentioned.

Watched by 22,500 spectators, Haugan improved from second place as first-run chief Linus Strasser, who gained the annual night time race final yr, dropped to fourth.

The German carried a lead of greater than three-tenths of a second into the ultimate run, however misplaced elements of that benefit at each break up time.

Strasser has not gained since his back-to-back triumphs inside 4 days within the traditional slaloms of Kitzbuehel and Schladming final yr.

Six days earlier than the nation hosts the worlds, Feller and Gstrein earned the primary podium leads to slalom this season for the Austrian crew.

Feller gained the World Cup slalom title final yr however has struggled to copy the shape and consistency that earned him the globe.

For Gstrein, it was the primary top-three results of his World Cup profession after ending fifth a number of occasions, most lately on the traditional slalom in Adelboden a couple of weeks in the past.

Olympic champion Clement Noel, who led the self-discipline standings earlier than the race after successful 4 occasions, together with in Kitzbeuhel final Sunday, was 0.71 off the lead after the primary run earlier than snowboarding out in his second.

Since Noel failed to attain factors, Henrik Kristoffersen went prime of the slalom season standings once more, three factors away from the Frenchman. Kristoffersen completed 1.18 seconds behind his Norwegian teammate Haugan in eighth.

The lads’s World Cup has another race earlier than the worlds: a downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Sunday.

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