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February 25, 2013, Monday
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GIFTED Frenchman Alexis Pinturault confirmed his all-round skills with a first Alpine ski World Cup giant slalom victory yesterday.
Probably the most versatile skier produced by France since Jean-Claude Killy, Pinturault clocked two minutes 32.42 seconds on the Kandahar course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany to beat Austrian World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher and triple world champion Ted Ligety of the United States.
It was Pinturault's fourth World Cup victory, all in different disciplines as the 21-year-old from Courchevel has also won a slalom and a super-combined this winter and a parallel slalom last season.
"It's a very important victory because giant slalom is the discipline in which I had my first podiums," said Pinturault, who was twice junior world champion in the speciality.
Below par in the morning run and suffering from influenza, slalom world champion Hirscher fought back in the second leg to finish 0.60 seconds adrift.
The Austrian increased his overall World Cup lead, heading Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, who finished sixth in the German resort, by 209 points.
Perhaps a little tired after his three world golds in Schladming, Austria, this month, Ligety had to be content with third, 0.63 off the pace. "It's hard to be disappointed by a podium spot but I frankly didn't come to Garmisch to finish third," Ligety said.
Garmisch-born Felix Neureuther was fastest in the first leg but finished 12th.
While the men's circuit moves to Kvitfjell in Norway this weekend for a downhill and a super-G, Ligety will be travelling to Sochi, Russia, to train on the 2014 Olympic course.
Probably the most versatile skier produced by France since Jean-Claude Killy, Pinturault clocked two minutes 32.42 seconds on the Kandahar course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany to beat Austrian World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher and triple world champion Ted Ligety of the United States.
It was Pinturault's fourth World Cup victory, all in different disciplines as the 21-year-old from Courchevel has also won a slalom and a super-combined this winter and a parallel slalom last season.
"It's a very important victory because giant slalom is the discipline in which I had my first podiums," said Pinturault, who was twice junior world champion in the speciality.
Below par in the morning run and suffering from influenza, slalom world champion Hirscher fought back in the second leg to finish 0.60 seconds adrift.
The Austrian increased his overall World Cup lead, heading Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, who finished sixth in the German resort, by 209 points.
Perhaps a little tired after his three world golds in Schladming, Austria, this month, Ligety had to be content with third, 0.63 off the pace. "It's hard to be disappointed by a podium spot but I frankly didn't come to Garmisch to finish third," Ligety said.
Garmisch-born Felix Neureuther was fastest in the first leg but finished 12th.
While the men's circuit moves to Kvitfjell in Norway this weekend for a downhill and a super-G, Ligety will be travelling to Sochi, Russia, to train on the 2014 Olympic course.
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