Norway’s Timon Haugan led after the primary leg of the boys’s World Cup slalom in Kitzbuehel on Sunday, with a raft of rivals mendacity in wait.
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In pouring rain, Haugan clocked 51.29 seconds down the Ganslern slope within the Austrian resort.
France’s Steven Amiez was second quickest down in testing circumstances in 51.36sec, whereas Lucas Pinheiro Braathen was third .
Pinheiro Braathen used to compete for Norway earlier than switching allegiance to Brazil, the nation of his mom and the place he lived for a while as a baby.
His putting left him in competition to bag a first-ever World Cup win for the South American nation.
Defending champion Linus Strasser of Germany was ninth , whereas Switzerland’s two-time winner Daniel Yuletide was at 0.65sec.
France’s 2019 winner Clement Noel sat fourth , however 2022 champion Dave Ryding of Britain has a frightening 1.50sec deficit to make up within the second leg scheduled for 1230 GMT.
“God save Dave!” bellowed the slopside commentator because the British veteran pivoted out of the beginning hut.
Different skiers to complete inside a second of Haugan included Switzerland’s Tanguy Nef, Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath, Italy’s Alex Vinatzer, France’s Paco Rassat, Croatian Filip Zubcic and the vaunted Austrian trio of Marco Schwarz, Manuel Feller and Fabio Gstrein.
There was, nonetheless, a catastrophe for former two-time winner and present slalom standings chief Henrik Kristoffersen, the Norwegian snowboarding out excessive up the course to carry his day to a untimely finish.
And Austria’s Michael Matt, who received world silver in 2019 and a bronze on the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, additionally didn’t make it down.
There’s a 100,000-euro cheque for the winner on the Ganslern slope, subsequent to the Streif, the place the downhill and super-G have been held during the last 48 hours and received by Canadian James Crawford and Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt respectively.
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