Loïc Meillard, third on Saturday, dominated the first leg of the second slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, this Sunday morning. Starting in third position, he first pushed back the Austrian Manuel Feller and the Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen to 80 and 88 hundredths, before the triple Olympic medalist Johannes Strolz and the Swiss Ramon Zenhaeusern encrusted at 51 hundredths.
Alexis Pinturault, who started with bib 13, contained a delay at the top of the track to take 5th place, 69 hundredths, beating late on by the Spaniard Joaquim Salarich and his bib 49 (+0′ 55). The Norwegian Sebastian Foss-Solevaag is 6th at the same time as Manuel Feller (+0”80). The leader of the classification of the specialty, the Norwegian Lucas Braathen, points to 1”65 (24th).
Faulty Christmas
The Olympic champion Clément Noël left him on a fault committed after ten gates. Saturday, he had not finished the second race.
Two other Frenchmen came out: Steven Amiez, 17th on Saturday, and Theo Letitre. Paco Rassat narrowly qualified for the second round (28th at 1’77).
Round two will start at 12:30 p.m.