Henrik Kristoffersen led the moments after the guys’s World Cup gigantic slalom very first perform at Kranjska Gora in Slovenia on Saturday.
Off the rear of an unsatisfactory World Championships where he set up a weak support of his slalom title the Norwegian clocked 1min 10.73 sec.
Swiss Marco Odermatt, that won the super-G crown finally month’s champions in Saalbach, is existing 2nd, simply 0.15 s adrift.
Third- positioned Joan Verdu heads a team of 8 skiers divided by just half a 2nd in the shuffle for a platform area.
Austria’s Raphael Haaser, that upstaged safeguarding champ Odermatt and the magnificent Swiss guys’s group to insurance claim globe gigantic slalom gold on home snow in Saalbach, remains in 8th, 1.03 behind Kristoffersen.
The 2nd leg schedules off at at 1130GMT.
Odermatt, that complied with up his globe title with success in last weekend break’s World Cup super-G at Crans-Montana, heads the super-G standings, gets on target for the general title and additionally leads the race for the gigantic slalom crystal world.
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