A blatant outsider wins in the night spectacle

Rasmus Windingstad won the spectacular night parallel giant slalom. The Norwegian confidently prevailed in the grand final against the German Stefan Luitz and celebrated his first ever World Cup victory. So far, Windingstad's best result and only podium finish was second place in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora. Now the 2-year-old gave himself an early Christmas present in only his second parallel race on the World Cup stage.

The final between Stefan Luitz (left) and Rasmus Windingstad was hard to beat in terms of excitement. © AP / Alessandro Trovati

Third place went to the Austrian Roland Leitinger, who also gave himself a present after a long injury break. The favorites, however, had a difficult time: Henrik Kristoffersen was eliminated in the quarter-finals, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was eliminated in the round of 3 against the eventual winner Windingstad, while the Frenchman Alexis Pinturault had to raise the white flag in the round of XNUMX. Zingerle and Maurberger surprise And on the South Tyrolean side? Two young boys were convincing. Hannes Zingerle and Simon Maurberger were the only ones to survive qualifying, which in itself was a small success. But it was over in the round of 2. While Zingerle had no chance due to a serious mistake in the first run against winner Windingstad, the round of XNUMX was within reach for Maurberger. The Ahrntaler won the first run against the Austrian Dominik Raschner, but fell in the second round and thus missed out on the next round.

Nevertheless: For the two young South Tyroleans, the performance can be seen as a positive result, after all, parallel giant slaloms are new territory for both of them. Manfred Mölgg, Alex Vinatzer and Riccardo Tonetti were already eliminated in qualifying.

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A blatant outsider wins in the night spectacle

On Sunday, Henrik Kristoffersen put on a big show in the giant slalom on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia, and on Monday a teammate followed suit. But it wasn't one of the favorites who beamed from the winner's podium, but rather a blatant outsider.

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