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Italy's Federica Brignone put in a dominant display to win gold in the women's giant slalom at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Thursday.
Austrian Raphael Haaser went from fifth place to win the World Alpine Skiing Championships giant slalom, the first top-level victory of his career. Haaser, 27, prevailed by 23 hundredths of a second over Swiss Thomas Tumler combining times from two runs in Saalbach,
Paula Moltzan kept the U.S. women’s hot streak at the world championships going. Moltzan won bronze in the giant slalom on Thursday, edging Norway's Thea Louise Stjernesund by just 0.01 seconds for the first individual worlds medal of her career.
Austrian skier Raphael Haaser ended the Swiss dominance in the men's events at the Alpine world championships by winning the giant slalom Friday. Haaser improved from fifth place in the opening run as the leading racers faltered in the second and finished ahead of three Swiss rivals.
The Laramie alpine ski team placed one athletes inside the top-12 of a giant slalom race on the final day of the Pinedale invitational on Saturday at White Pines Ski
Italy's Federica Brignone and New Zealand's Alice Robinson blew away the field Thursday, with Moltzan sneaking into the No. 3 spot.
Austrian skier Raphael Haaser ended the Swiss dominance in the men's events at the Alpine world championships by winning the giant slalom on Friday.
Laramie's alpine skiers placed two inside the top 15 of a giant slalom race to kick off the Pinedale Invite on Friday at White Pines Ski Area.
Italian Federica Brignone won a women's World Cup giant slalom on home snow in Sestriere on Friday as U.S. ski great Mikaela Shiffrin finished 25th on her return to the discipline after a crash in Vermont last November.
New world champion Federica Brignone sent the home crowd wild by winning a women's alpine skiing World Cup giant slalom in Sestriere, Italy on Friday despite not training due to illness. US great Mikaela Shiffrin was targeting a record-extending 100th World Cup win.