American Mikaela Shiffrin justified her role as the favorite at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina on Wednesday and easily won the Olympic gold in the slalom race, while BiH. skier Esma Alić took the 46th position.
Shiffrin was a second and a half faster than the silver medalist Camille Rast of Switzerland, while the bronze medalist Swedish skier Anna Swenn Larsson was 1.71 seconds behind.
Rast and Swenn Larsson took advantage of the fact that German Lena Duerr, the runner-up after the first run, and Sweden’s Cornelia Oehlund, the third-placed runner, failed to finish the second run.
Swiss Wendy Holdener (+1.93) was fourth, Austrian Katharina Truppe was fifth (+2.00), while BiH. skier Esma Alić took 46th place with 16.21 seconds behind the winner.
Croatian skiers Zrinka Ljutić and Leona Popović did not achieve notable results. Ljutić was 26th, Popović failed to finish the second run.
With today’s triumph, Shiffrin further enriched her treasury of Olympic medals, confirming her status as one of the best female skiers of all time.
Thus, the 30-year-old American skier now has two slalom Olympic golds (2014 and 2026), as well as gold in the giant slalom and silver in the super combination from 2018.
(Vijesti.ba / FENA)
