Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic has won the World Cup slalom of Wengen ahead of Sweden’s André Myhrer and Germany’s Fritz Dopfer.
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The best placed Swiss skier in Sunday’s event was Markus Vogel who finished 17th.
It is the third straight World Cup slalom victory for the 32-year-old Kostelic at the Swiss alpine resort.
He also won Friday’s super combined event – a downhill and a slalom – in Wengen.
Saturday’s classic Lauberhorn downhill race saw Switzerland’s Beat Feuz clocking the top performance ahead of Hannes Reichelt of Austria. Feuz took second place in the combined event.
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Feuz races to Lauberhorn downhill victory
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Hannes Reichelt of Austria came second ahead of Italy’s Christof Innerhofer and Carlo Janka of Switzerland. Feuz’s main rivals, American Bode Miller and Swiss skier Didier Cuche finished fifth and fifteenth respectively in Saturday’s event. The 4.5km Lauberhorn race is the longest downhill event of the World Cup circuit. Feuz was runners-up in Friday’s super-combined event…
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Feuz wowed the home crowd to finish just 0.2 seconds behind Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic. Bode Miller of the United States finished third. “I knew I had to attack and that it would be difficult to do better than Kostelic,” Feuz said after the race. Kostelic has won five of his last six outings in the…
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It’s the longest downhill race on the World Cup circuit, and requires hundreds of helpers from the army and civil defence to prepare the 4.5km long track. This gallery from our archive shows images from 2011 and the preparations needed to get ready for the event. (Pictures: Sebastian Stange, swissinfo.ch)
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