Shiffrin before record -breaking 101st victory - Austrians in the race!

Shiffrin before record -breaking 101st victory - Austrians in the race!

Åre, Schweden - In Åre, the American skiist Mikaela Shiffrin reaches for her 101st World Cup victory! The 30-year-old, who celebrates her birthday on Thursday, led the first slalom round with an outstanding time of 51.27 seconds. It is 0.43 seconds ahead of German Lena Dürr and 0.48 seconds ahead of Swedish Sara Hector. The top 10 also shows the best Austrian, Katharina Liensberger, who is only four hundredths behind Hector.

Austrian competitors strongly represent

with Katharina troops in a seventh place (+0.91 seconds behind Shiffrin) is also the second best Austrian at the start. However, the race is not without setbacks: Franziska Gritsch missed the second round. Her country women Katharina Huber (+2.36) and Katharina Gallhuber (+2.45) are outside the top 20, but will still start in the second round, which is transferred to ORF 1 live at 12:30 p.m.

In the exciting competition for the small crystal ball, the leadership is currently in danger: Neither the leading Zrinka Ljutic nor the pursuer Camille Rast were able to convince. Ljutic, who is only in tenth place at 1.03 seconds behind, has to dress warmly, while rest, which is 39 points behind her, has lost impressive 1.6 seconds to Shiffrin, as was lost, as both Kleinezeitung.at href = "https://www.oe24.at/sport/wintersport/ski-alpin/shiffrin-fuehr-im-re-lalom-liensberger-vierte/626267653" Target = "_ blank"> oe24.at report.