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Two-time world champion Marco Schwarz is also one of the top favorites in Sunday’s slalom world championships.
The 2021 Ski World Championship in Cortina d’Ampezzo will be the last race of the World Cup on Sunday, with the men’s slalom. Will it be the golden day for Austria (Marco Schwarz, Manuel Feller, Adrian Pertl, Michael Matt) get the Swiss (Ramon Zenhäusern, Daniel Yule, Loic Meillard, Luca Aerni) the world championship title, after the race we heard the Marseillaise (Alexis Pinturault, Clement Noel), or board the Vikings (Sebastian Foss-Solevaag, Henrik Kristoffersen) the pedestal. Germany’s bearer of hope is called Linus strasser and all Italy awaits two dream races from Alex Vinatzer.
All information on Sunday’s World Cup men’s slalom can be found here
Austrian favorites
Austria has won a record 16 gold medals and a record 41 total medals in the men’s slalom. Austria’s record for the most gold medals in a country in an individual discipline is 17 in men’s relegation. Switzerland holds the record for the most medals in an individual discipline: 42 in men’s downhill.
In the last two World Championships, Austria won five of the six possible medals in the men’s slalom. Marcel Hirscher (gold) and Manuel Feller (silver) in 2017, as well as Hirscher (gold), Michael Matt (silver) and Marco Schwarz (bronze) in 2019. Austria’s medal table in 2019 was the first from a country in the category male. slalom.
Marco Schwarz won his first career world title by winning the Alpine Men’s Combine on Monday, February 15. The last man to win the world title in slalom and combined in one year was Benjamin Raich in 2005.
Raich (2005) is one of six men who won the world slalom title and combined in the same year, but the only one to do so since the early 1970s.
Schwarz has won five World Cup medals since 2019, more than any other man in the last two World Championships combined.
At the 2020/21 World Cup, Black took the podium in seven of the nine men’s slalom races. Both Schwarz (2 wins) and Manuel Feller (1) achieved their first World Cup wins in slalom this season.
In addition to his silver medal in the 2019 slalom, Michael Matt also won the Olympic bronze in this discipline in 2018.
Michael Matt can follow in the footsteps of his older brother Mario Matt, who won the men’s slalom at the 2001 and 2007 World Championships (including the 2014 Olympics).
More contenders
Mathieu Faivre won the men’s giant slalom on Friday. Nine men did double slalom and giant slalom at the same world championships. Marcel Hirscher (2017) was the only one to do it in the last 25 years.
Clément Noël and Alexis Pinturault could become the sixth Frenchman to win the men’s slalom world title and the first since Jean-Baptiste Grange in 2015.
The only Frenchman to win this discipline in the World Championship before he was 24 years old was Jean Noël Augert (20 years old) in 1970. Noël will turn 24 in May this year.
Pinturault has already won individual World Championship medals in giant slalom, super-G and in the alpine combination. Only Benjamin Raich, Kjetil André Aamodt, Lasse Kjus and Marc Girardelli have already won medals in slalom, giant slalom, Super-G and in the men’s alpine combination.
Only Émile Allais (8) has won more world medals among the French than Pinturault (6).
Henrik Kristoffersen and Sebastian Foss-Solevåg can join Stein Eriksen (1954), Kjetil André Aamodt (1993) and Tom Stiansen (1997) as the only Norwegian world champions in men’s slalom.
The last Norwegian to win a medal in this discipline at the World Championships was Lasse Kjus (silver) in 1999.
Kristoffersen won the world title in the men’s giant slalom in 2019, his only world championship medal to date. He can become the 10th man to win world titles in both slalom and giant slalom, and the third Norwegian after Aamodt and Eriksen.
Ramon Zenhäusern took Olympic silver in the 2018 men’s slalom. The last Swiss skier to win a World Championship medal in this discipline was Silvan Zurbriggen (silver) in 2003.
Swiss skiers have won the men’s slalom world championship title five times, but not since Georges Schneider in 1950.
Loïc Meillard is the first Swiss since Pirmin Zurbriggen (4) in 1987 to win three individual World Championship medals in one year.
Linus Straßer wants to be the first German skier since Frank Wörndl in 1987 (for West Germany) to win the men’s slalom at the World Cup. Since then, German skiers have collected five medals in this discipline (G0-S3-B2), the most recent a bronze medal from Felix Neureuther in 2017.
Dave Ryding could become the first Briton to reach the podium in a world championship. For women, Britain achieved 11 medals (G4-S4-B3), all in the 1930s.
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