VAL D’ISERE, France (AP) — Tina Wierather of Liechtenstein protected her lead from the first run to win a women’s World Cup giant slalom on Sunday and clinch her second victory of the season.
After winning a super-G race at St. Moritz last weekend, the 24-year-old Wierather secured her third career win and 13th podium finish with an overall time of 2 minutes, 24.10 seconds — .75 seconds clear of Swiss skier Lara Gut, who was third after the first run, and .95 ahead of Sweden’s Maria Pietilae-Holmner, who had been second.
Italian Federica Brignone was fourth, ahead of former World Cup winner Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany.
Julia Mancuso of the United States did not finish the second run.
Germany’s Veronique Hronek appeared to twist her right knee when crashing out of the first run.
