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With a fourth place yesterday in the Slalom Kranjska Gora, Marcel Hirscher has put in the safe also specialty Cup, the fourth as Alberto Tomba, through the narrow poles after putting his hands on the Fourth of Giant Cup and sixth overall.
Monday 6 March 2017 3 minutes reading time
Race after race, victory after victory, Marcel Hirscher leads to ever more exclusive circles. This season he became the third man to win at least four of the Slalom World Cups and four World Cups of the Giant, a company which in the past had only been accomplished by Ingemar Stenmark, who went on the momentum up to a double 8, and Alberto Tomb.
For the second time, after 2015, the 'Austrian wins in the same season the Cup Slalom and the Giant, as happened 14 more times in the 50 year history of the signed by six other skiers in the World Cup seven times Ingemar Stenmark, Alberto Tomba three times, twice Marcel Hirscher, once and for Benjamin Raich, Marc Girardelli, Phil Mahre and Jean-Claude Killy.
The Austrian champion is the third man in the same season next to the two Cups in the technical tests specialties also puts the two medals of 'Oro, it's the Olympics or World Championships. Before he came twice with Ingemar Stenmark in 1978 in Garmisch won two world titles and granted an encore two years after the Lake Placid Olympics. Only Alberto Tomba in 1988, the 'year of Calgary, still managed nell''impresa before Marcel Hirscher this season.
All''italiano but lacks the 'final high yesterday the' Austrian reached Ingemar Stenmark in the list of those who in the same season won the overall World Cup, the Cup Slalom and Giant and the two medals ''Gold. For the Swede was the 'year of the Lord 1978 Hirscher 2017.
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