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The startlist of the second test on the Austrian snows (Wednesday, 10 and 13 the two heats): without Shiffrin, all open behind the specialty leader, Michelle Gisin will open the contest. No Italians in the thirties with Peterlini's injury: Federica Brignone will be the first to start with the 31st.
Tuesday 28 December 2021 6 minutes reading time
A great favorite above all, and a total battle for the podium in the last race of this 2021 for the Women's World Cup, the slalom on the Schlossberg that will close the two days in Lienz.
After today's giant won by Tessa Worley, on Wednesday we are back on track (the 1st heat at 10.00, the 2nd at 13.00, both live on TV on Eurosport 1 and Rai Sport) one month after the last specialty race held in Killington, when Mikaela Shiffrin won the duel, after having lost both of them in Levi, with Petra Vlhova.
Unfortunately, tomorrow we will not have the "never ending story" between the American leader of CdM and the Slovakian, who will have a huge opportunity to escape in the disciplinary ranking and above all get closer (winning Petra would go to -135 pt) in the general. Vlhova will come out of the gate with bib n ° 4 in the 1st heat with Swiss marking and it will be a Swiss, Michelle Gisin, to inaugurate the challenge between the narrow posts, followed with n ° 2 by Katharina Liensberger, clearly not at the top of the condition after the quarantine and among other things never on the podium in the season in the discipline of which she is the reigning world champion, and Lena Duerr who will start with 3 to look for the ... third top 3 after the two podiums of Levi.
Anna Swenn-Larsson will fight to get back up there, starting fifth, and Martina Dubovska (comb 6) will have a great chance, in the first sub-group thanks to the absence of Shiffrin, with Wendy Holdener (7) who certainly starts with many ambitions after messing in the giant today.
The startlist continues with Moltzan, Bucik, Truppe and a Hector (n ° 11 in slalom) in celestial form, then Austria which will also focus on Mair and Huber, while Andreja Slokar, a little in the shade in the last two competitions, will have a good opportunity to return to altitude in his favorite discipline.
Without Martina Peterlini (and neither are Midali and Viviani, but recovering from their respective injuries), who ended her season with the dramatic injury in Valle Aurina, Italy will not present any athlete among the top thirty. We will have to wait until Federica Brignone's bib 31, who among other things here in Lienz has her second best result in slalom with 13th place in 2019 and certainly regained confidence with fourth place in the giant, to see the first blue. at the gate. Lara Della Mea, who has seen herself at good levels in the European Cup, will look for her first post-injury qualification with the number 34, the same goal as Marta Rossetti (36).
Sophie Mathiou (n ° 58), who returns to the cup after missing Killington, will need a feat, Vera Tschurtschenthaler, who has not competed in the maximum circuit since February 2020 when she made her debut in Kranjska Gora, and Anita Gulli entered with bib 63 on the 68 athletes at the start.
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FEMALE SLALOM - LIENZ
Startlist 1st heat: 1 Gisin, 2 Liensberger, 3 Duerr, 4 Vlhova, 5 Swenn-Larsson, 6 Dubovska, 7 Holdener, 8 Moltzan, 9 Bucik, 10 Troops, 11 Hector, 12 Mair, 13 Huber, 14 Slokar, 15 St-Germain, 31 Brignone, 34 Della Mea, 36 Rossetti, 58 Mathiou, 59 Tschurtschenthaler, 63 Gulli.
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