Latvian athlete Jennifer Germanne took tenth place in the slalom discipline at the World Cup stage in alpine skiing in France on Tuesday, showing the fifth time in the second run, tying it with the competition winner — the decorated American Mikaela Shiffrin, reports LETA.
Germanne started with number 24 among 67 participants and showed the 17th result after the first run. Only two skiers who started after her were able to surpass her.
In the second run, the Latvian started 12th and showed the best result among the already competing athletes. In the final standings based on the sum of the two runs, only nine competitors surpassed her.
The confident victory was claimed by American Shiffrin, who was the fastest in the first run and maintained her advantage in the second. The second run brought her a time of 52.73 seconds — exactly the same as Germanne.
Second place was taken by Swiss skier Camille Rast, who finished 1.55 seconds behind the winner. Third place went to German Emma Aicher, who lost to Shiffrin by 1.71 seconds and surpassed Austrian Katharina Truppe by eight hundredths of a second.
Germanne finished 3.57 seconds behind Shiffrin, and she was 0.16 seconds short of ninth place.
Shiffrin has won all four slalom stages of the current season and leads the discipline standings with 400 points. Germanne, who missed the stage in the USA, is in 15th place with 54 points. In the overall standings of all disciplines, Shiffrin is also the leader, while Germanne, competing only in slalom, shares 42nd place.
In her first competition of the season, Germanne, returning to the World Cup after nearly a year-long break, showed the fifth result in the second run in Finland and finished 21st overall. In the second stage, she finished 14th.
In the 2024/2025 season, Germanne finished eighth in slalom three times at World Cup stages — a record for independent Latvia in alpine skiing. In the season finale, she finished 14th.
At the beginning of 2024, Germanne also became the junior world champion in slalom.
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