Two days, two wins, 0.34 seconds in total. Camille Rast won the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora on Saturday by 0.20 from Julia Scheib, and the slalom on Sunday by 0.14 from Mikaela Shiffrin. The Saturday race was her first World Cup giant slalom win. The Sunday race was the first slalom Shiffrin had lost all season, at the sixth attempt.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap — giant slalom, 3 Jan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camille RastSUI | SUI | 2:00.09 |
| 2 | Julia ScheibAUT | AUT | +0.20 |
| 3 | Paula MoltzanUSA | USA | n/a |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap — slalom, 4 Jan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camille RastSUI | SUI | 1:40.20 |
| 2 | Mikaela ShiffrinUSA | USA | +0.14 |
| 3 | Wendy HoldenerSUI | SUI | n/a |
| 4 | Paula MoltzanUSA | USA | n/a |
| 6 | Lara Della MeaITA | ITA | n/a |
| 7 | Dzenifera GermaneLAT | LAT | n/a |
The slalom: 0.10 to 0.14
Rast led the first run by 0.10. She finished 0.14 ahead. Against a skier who had won the previous five slaloms — four of them by more than a second after leading the first run — gaining four hundredths in a second run is the whole story. Shiffrin had been going for her 70th World Cup slalom win and a seventh in a row counting back to the previous season’s finals.
Behind them the gap opened out. Wendy Holdener took third, close to two seconds back: her 39th World Cup slalom podium and her first in ten races. Moltzan was fourth, 0.14 behind Holdener. Della Mea and Germane set career-best World Cup results in sixth and seventh, and Noa Szollos’s 28th place was Israel’s first World Cup points in any alpine discipline. Zrinka Ljutić and Lara Colturi both went out in the first run.
The giant slalom: two wins become four
Rast arrived with two career wins, both slaloms, from 2024/25. The Saturday giant slalom made it three and the Sunday slalom four. She wore a black armband on both days for the victims of a fire at a bar in her home town of Crans-Montana in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Shiffrin’s assessment of the weekend was that she was in awe of Rast’s skiing and that winning back-to-back is very hard to do. Rast said it had really not been easy and she had given everything she had.
Numbers
- 5: consecutive slaloms Shiffrin had won before Sunday, from Levi, Gurgl, Copper Mountain, Courchevel and Semmering.
- 4: Rast’s career World Cup wins after this weekend, from ten podiums.
- 2: her wins in two days, in two disciplines.
- 8: her podiums in 2025/26. She finished third overall and second in both the giant slalom and the slalom standings.
Shiffrin won the next four slaloms she started and took the globe with nine wins from ten races. Rast’s weekend remains the only dent in it.