Kristoffersen takes overall men's slalom lead after weekend sweep in Germany

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 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Kristoffersen was eighth after the opening leg but took the lead with the fourth-fastest time in the final run for a combined time of one minute 52.66 seconds. 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.

"That's a shame, that's never how you want to win it but, still, this is part of the game, part of the sport, so I'm super happy for another win," Kristoffersen said.

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The top three after the first run — Swiss skiers Loic Meillard and Ramon Zenhausern and Austria's Johannes Strolz — 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.

Meillard had taken a big lead of more than half a second in the opening run, mastering the icy Gudiberg course and finishing 0.51 seconds ahead of Zenhausern and Strolz, who clocked the same time.

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