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Marco Odermatt lost the duel to Alexis Pinturault for the big and small crystal ball in Lenzerheide. The Frenchman won the day, while the Swiss did not reach his usual level.
Alexis Pinturault gives himself rich gifts on his 30th birthday. The Frenchman wins the giant slalom in the Lenzerheide final and therefore also the discipline and the general classification.
In the giant slalom classification, Pinturault overtook Marco Odermatt, who started the last race as the leader with a 25-point lead. At Lenzerheide, the Nidwaldner, who finished eleventh, did not fit too much. In the general classification, Pinturault is unrivaled ahead of Sunday’s slalom with 107 points.
First race to set the course: the best Swiss from Caviezel
At Lenzerheide, Pinturault had already laid the foundations for victory with a top best time in the first race. After half the workload, he had led the classification by eight tenths of a second ahead of Austrian Stefan Brennsteiner and left all other competitors behind by more than a second.
Pinturault, who achieved his fourth giant slalom victory this winter, achieved two tenths of this great reserve in the final scores. Second was Croatian Filip Zubcic, third was world champion and fellow countryman of Pinturault Matthieu Faivre.
The best Swiss in the last giant slalom of the winter was Gino Caviezel. With seventh place, the Bündner secured a conciliatory end to a World Cup season, which had started off excellently with third place and the podium debut in Sölden, but which then did not turn out as desired.
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