Medals update: Michelle Gisin goes back-to-back for gold in the women's Alpine combined

Michelle Gisin of Switzerland found the best all-around form on the day in the women’s Alpine skiing combined event, overcoming a slow downhill finish to make up time in the slalom portion and claim her second-straight Olympic gold medal in the event.

Wendy Holdener also repeated her feat of silver from PyeongChang 2018 and Italian Federica Brignone finished up with the bronze medal.

Gisin, sitting twelfth after the downhill section, dominated the gates in the slalom portion – which was contested under slate-grey skies and falling snow. She finished with a combined time of 2:25.67.

Her Swiss teammate Holdener, who finished in second in 2:26.72, also used her prowess in the slalom portion to haul herself back from an 11th-place finish in the downhill.

Brignone, who took the bronze with a combined time of 2:27.52, had finished eighth after the earlier downhill section -- as all three of the podium placers earned their medals in the slalom section of the race.

It was a day that saw Team USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin suffer once again on the slalom course.

After finishing a respectable fifth in the downhill section of the race – riding on a pair of skis borrowed from silver medal winner in the individual downhill, Sofia Goggia of Italy – the two-time American gold medal-winner skied out after looking to have regained her rhythm in the early gates.

It was the third time at these Games that Shiffrin skied out in a slalom run – failing to finish in her favourite events (slalom and giant slalom) before taking 18th in her first-ever attempt at an Olympic downhill.

The women’s combined event closes the women’s individual Alpine skiing events here at Beijing 2022.

*Women’s Alpine combined results *

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