Berlin : Henrik Kristoffersen completed a turnaround of his World Cup slalom season Sunday with his second win in two days.
The Norwegian was coming off a below-par start to his 2021-22 campaign, which included no top-10 results and two DNFs in his first four races, prompting him to replace his long-term ski technician.
Now, the Norwegian is the first skier this season with multiple slalom victories with the previous seven races featuring seven different winners.
And leading the slalom standings by 49 points with two races remaining, he is on course to win his third career season title.
Kristoffersen came from behind to earn his 21st slalom victory Sunday after the top three skiers from the first run all failed to finish.
Kristoffersen was eighth after the opening leg, but the Norwegian took the lead with the fourth-fastest time in the final run. He then watched as the next seven racers all failed to beat his time, with four of them not even making it to the finish.
The top three after the first run – Swiss skiers Loïc Meillard and Ramon Zenhäusern and Austria’s Johannes Strolz – all straddled a gate on the icy course, where the first few gates were set to create unusually sharp turns, making it hard to find rhythm from the start.
The second-run course was set by Tristan Glasse-Davies, the coach of Dave Ryding, and suited the British skier well, as he climbed from 19th to second, 0.35 behind Kristoffersen.
