Semmering (Austria) (AFP)

End of series!

Almost four years and 28 slaloms after Sweden's Frida Hansdotter, Switzerland's Michelle Gisin put an end to Semmering (Austria) on Tuesday with the hand of the World Cup slaloms of the American Mikaela Shiffrin and the Slovakian Petra Vlhova.

Gisin beat the Austrian Katharina Liensberger (11 / 110th) and the American Mikaela Shiffrin (57 / 100th) on Tuesday.

Versatile skier, Olympic champion in the combined in 2018, Michelle Gisin put an end to many series on Tuesday ...

Her first: after nine World Cup podiums obtained in four different disciplines (slalom, super-G, downhill, combined), Michelle Gisin finally clinched her first victory on the world circuit at the age of 27.

She thus joins her older sister Dominique on the highest level (three World Cup victories, an Olympic downhill title in 2014) and validates a result that her older brother Marc, a heavy speed specialist, had failed to achieve. injured who announced his retirement last month.

By the way, Gisin allows Switzerland to win its first women's slalom for almost 19 years, with Marlies Öster in January 2002!

An eternity for this crazy alpine skiing country.

The day after the giant's cancellation due to the wind, the Graubünden champion above all ended the incredible monopoly of two skiers on the world slalom.

Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova had shared the last 28 World Cup slaloms (19 for Shiffrin, 9 for Vlhova), since the victory of the Swedish Frida Hansdotter in January 2017.

Gisin joins the Canadian Erin Mielzynski, the only other skier still in activity to have already triumphed between the tight poles (a victory in 2012).

"It's just incredible. It's my first victory eight years after my first World Cup here," responded Gisin at the microphone of the International Ski Federation (FIS). We have worked for this for so long. And I stopped the incredible series of two giants. "

- No slalom in 2020 for Shiffrin -

Behind her, the Austrian Katharina Liensberger (23 years old) confirmed to have taken a step forward by securing a 3rd podium in three slaloms this season (twice 3rd in Levi).

Little sensation, the American Mikaela Shiffrin, triple winner of the big globe (from 2017 to 2019) and 3rd Tuesday, therefore ends the year 2020 without any victory in slalom, a first in a calendar year since 2011, the year of her debut in World Cup at 16 ...

A statistic to be qualified by the few races offered in 2020 (six against ten usually) due to the new coronavirus pandemic, in addition to the death of his father in February which had caused him to miss a slalom.

Above all, Petra Vlhova had shown imperial until then with a 5 out of 5 in 2020, before missing Tuesday by setting the 6th time of the two races for a 4th place final (at 1 sec 36).

This result allows the Slovakian to finish the year at the top of the general classification, but she is only 88 points ahead of Michelle Gisin who, like her, contests all the races, and 180 over Shiffrin, who does not. is currently not aligned in speed.

Neither of the two French lined up (Nastasia Noens and Doriane Escané) managed to qualify for the second round.

The skiers follow on Sunday with a slalom in Zagreb.

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