When she saw light up in the target, the green “1”, Christina Geiger of your joy. With the victory, the skier from Oberstdorf in the flood of light had to do Slalom in the Austrian Flachau at the end, as expected, nothing to – four weeks before the world Cup in the Swedish city of Are, the 28-Year-old showed in dense driving snow as the Sixth but again a strong performance. “I was so surprised at the finish, I had but one or the other error. When I saw that I am to 1.15 seconds in front, I have not understood the world – I’m super happy that I could still improve,” said Geiger after their courageous second run.
After the first run, she had still occupies the ninth place. Lena Dürr (Germering) reached rank 15. In the sixth Slalom of the world Cup winter, the winner was in the end surprisingly Mikaela Shiffrin. The Slalom Queen had after five Season in their own special discipline 13.400 spectators, this time in second place 0.15 seconds behind Petra Vlhova (Slovakia), the was managed a strong second run. Third on the Hermann Maier world Cup track Katharina Liensberger (Austria), after Anna If Larsson (Sweden) was subsequently disqualified. Geiger had to Vlhova 2.68 seconds behind, also in third place, 1.51 seconds were still missing, she drove well but in the third race in a row in the Top Ten: Three days earlier, she had become convinced in Zagreb, Croatia as the Fifth, Seventh, and she was in the Parallel Slalom on new year’s day in Oslo.
