Atle Lie McGrath (NOR) claimed his second slalom World Cup victory of the season in Wengen, Switzerland, launching him to the highest of the FIS rankings with 372 factors. He dominated each runs on the long-lasting Lauberhorn slope and posted a time of 1:45.99. It was the second consecutive win on the course for McGrath, who additionally topped the rostrum in Wengen final 12 months. This 12 months’s victory marks his fifth profession World Cup win and nineteenth podium.
“I heard Lucas took the lead by so much,” McGrath stated on the end line. “I do know Lucas too properly to know that when he skis quick, I actually need to go. That was one in all my greatest second runs in my profession.”
Whereas he skis for Norway, McGrath was born in Vermont and his father Felix represented the U.S. in slalom and large slalom on the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (BRA) took silver in his second runner-up end this season, 0.47 seconds behind his former Norwegian teammate. He now sits 21 factors behind McGrath in the slalom World Cup standings and maintains an eight-point margin over reigning Olympic champion Clement Noel (FRA). Pinheiro Braathen is second solely to Marco Odermatt (SUI) in the general rankings.
Henrik Kristoffersen (NOR), the defending slalom World Cup Crystal Globe winner, rounded out the highest three. The rostrum end marked the one hundredth of his World Cup profession, cementing his standing as one in all slalom’s all-time greats.
Paco Rassat (FRA), who donned the pink bib coming into Wengen, recorded a DNF in his second run in a disappointing flip to his breakout 12 months. His two wins and three podium finishes this season stored him at fourth in the World Cup slalom standings regardless of the misstep.
American Ben Ritchie completed one spot out of the highest 30, narrowly lacking a berth to the second run. The U.S. males have largely struggled to document Cup factors in slalom this season. They’ve solely performed so twice.
| High-10 finishers in Wengen | |
| 1 | Atle Lie McGrath (NOR) |
| 2 | Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (BRA) |
| 3 | Henrik Kristoffersen (NOR) |
| 4 | Loic Meillard (SUI) |
| 5 | Timon Haugan (NOR) |
| 6 | Matthias Iten (SUI) |
| T7 | Filip Zubcic (CRO) |
| T7 | Michael Matt (AUT) |
| 9 | Clement Noel (FRA) |
| 10 | Eirik Hystad Solberg (NOR) |
The Olympic qualification interval ends tonight and Kitzbuhel, Austria is subsequent up on the World Cup circuit for the lads. With simply two slalom races left till the world’s greatest skiers tackle Olympic snow on the 2026 Milan Cortina Video games, the sphere stays fiercely aggressive.
