Sentences with phrase «first giant slalom»

But he hit an instant spotlight when he won the first giant slalom of the year in Val d'Is √ ® re in December.

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After weather - related delays postponed her first scheduled event, she collected her first gold medal of 2018 in giant slalom.

SKIING — BILLY KIDD of Stowe, Vt. scored the first U.S. win in a major Alpine race in Europe in two years, winning one of two giant slalom events in Meg √ ® ve, France.

Two years later, at the 1958 FIS world championships in Bad Gastein, she took both the women's downhill and giant slalom and was hailed as the new ruler of the skiing world, the first girl since the great Andrea Mead Lawrence to win two gold medals in world competition.

SKIING — It was a case of peaking too late: American BARBARA COCHRAN won it all at the World Cup races in Heavenly Valley, Calif. — first the slalom, then the giant slalom — to shut out the tough touring European stars.

Strung out along the steep headwall near the top of KT - 22, spectators and competitors watch a racer dart through a gate on the first pitch of the men's giant slalom course, considered one of the world's finest racing trails

In Scene One on Friday, Killy crashed into a gate during his very first heat of the giant slalom and was out of the race.

Then came the first round of the giant slalom.

In the first race, the ladies» giant slalom, Joan Hannah of the U.S. finished third, behind Fr √ § uleins Jahn and Erika Netzer of Austria, Barbara Ferries and Jean Saubert, two other American girls, coming in fifth and sixth.

SKIING — The U.S. girls fared well in the first post-Olympic meet as KIKI CUTTER of Bend, Ore. won the slalom in Oslo and came in third in the giant slalom, followed by three other Americans — Judy Nagel, Wendy Allen and Suzy Chaffee — who placed fourth, seventh and eighth.

The French, however, dominated the giant slalom, taking five of the first eight places, Francoise Macchi winning in 1:36.41.

Russel (pronounced Roo - sell) stood No. 1 in overall World Cup standings with 140 points after finishing first in last week's giant slalom in Meg √ ® ve.

Any of them could take first place in slalom, giant slalom or downhill.

Countrywomen MARIA WALLISER and VRENI SCHNEIDER tied for first in the women's giant slalom to share honors in those final standings.

Betsy Snite has a good chance of winning the slalom, and she can finish among the first three in the downhill and giant slalom.

After winning just one medal in the first five events of the Games (Julia Mancuso's unexpected bronze in the super combined, boosting her U.S. women's record medal total to four), the U.S. won four medals in the final five events, beginning with a silver and a bronze by Andrew Weibrecht and Bode Miller, respectively, in the Super-G, followed by Ted Ligety's dominant gold as the heavy favorite in the giant slalom and, finally, Shiffrin's gold.

1 Women who have won a World Cup skiing race in each of the six disciplines (giant slalom, downhill, slalom, Super G, combined and super-combi): Janica Kostelic of Croatia, who won her first Super G on Sunday.

U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her second career gold medal and her first of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women's giant slalom at the Yongpyong Alpine Center in South Korea.

Slippers prepare the ski course before the first run of the women's giant slalom.

She went on to win gold in parallel giant slalom snowboarding as well, making her the first woman to win two gold medals in different sports at the same Olympic Games.