Skir racer Lena Dürr ended the season with another podium. The 33-year-old drove in second place in the last slalom of winter in Sun Valley in the last 101st World Cup victory of US star Mikaela Shiffrin. Third, the Slovenian Andreja Slokar was just one hundredth of a second behind. Dürr’s colleague Emma Aicher took 13th place. The Croatian Zrinka Ljutic, who became tenth, won the victory in the overall slalom ranking.
As in winter, there are a total of four World Cup podium positions for Dürr this season. At the World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, she had to accept several disappointments. In her parade discipline, the slalom, she had become eighth. In Sun Valley, the Munich native drove again Famos – only Shiffrin was a whopping 1.13 seconds faster.
The 30-year-old celebrated the triumphal end of an emotional season in front of a home crowd. The long-time alpine dominator had started the winter strongly, but was then heavily overthrown in Killington at the end of November and operated on in the abdomen because of a stab wound. Shiffrin returned two months later, and at the World Cup in Austria she and Breezy Johnson won gold in the team combination. Shortly afterwards, she cracked the brand of 100 World Cups that was considered unreachable as an unreachable. Now she grabbed the next success.
Linus Straßer experiences a frightened second
Linus Straßer ended up in sixth place in the men, but he had to survive a frightened second in the first run. He almost collided with a so -called slide. The slope worker had suddenly crossed the route – right in front of Straßer’s eyes. The 32-year-old visibly came out of the rhythm through the campaign. “I saw three goals beforehand that someone slipped,” said Straßer on ORF about the very delicate scene after 30 seconds of his first round when the man calmly crossed the slopes in Idaho on ski: “I noticed that it could go out that way.” Immediately after the almost crash, Straßer then made a thick mistake. Norwegian Timon Haugan secured first place with a 0.03 second lead ahead of Olympic champion Clement Noël from France. Haugan’s teammate Henrik Kristoffersen, who finished fourth, celebrated the overall success in the slalom rating for the fourth time in his career.
For the German Ski Association (DSV), the first season ended without a single World Cup podium for men for 21 years.