Norway’s Windingstad Storms To First Win In Alta Badia
December 24, 2019
4:07 pm
Norway’s Rasmus Windingstad stormed to his first World Cup win as the favourites struggled in the parallel giant slalom night race at Alta Badia in northern Italy on Monday.
Windingstad finished 0.41sec ahead of Germany’s Stefan Luitz in the final under floodlights in the Dolomites.
The 26-year-old blitzed down the hill to deny Luitz a second World Cup win after the giant slalom in Beaver Creek last season.
Austria’s Roland Leitinger took his first podium finish in third, ahead of Norway’s Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen, in the head-to-head duel on runs that are side by side.
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