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On Saturday, the Slovak national team member Petra Vlhová sealed the greatest success in the history of Slovak downhill skiing and her own career. She also recorded one of the most penetrating results of the whole Slovak sport.
In the slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, she gained the necessary points to become the overall winner of the World Cup in the 2020/2021 season and win a large crystal globe. On Saturday, Vlhová was classified at the 6th place.
In the current season, Petra Vlhová has so far claimed six victories in the World Cup races, in February she won two silver medals at the World Championships. Her hottest successes so far have been winning a small globe for slalom from the 2019/2020 season and currently six medals from the World Championships (1-4-1).
After the first lap, Vlhová was the sixth place, when she made a mistake in the upper part of the track and lagged behind the best. In the second, however, she came to the finish line in 2nd place and since she needed any scoring result for the final, she could rejoice in the big globe.
Sunday’s huge slalom won’t change anything, no matter how it turns out. After Saturday, Vlhová’s lead over Swiss Lara Gutová-Behrami’s 136 points and there is only one hundred left in the game. Vlhová currently has 1392 points, Gutová-Behramiová 1256.
The winner of Saturday’s slalom was the Austrian Katharina Liensbergerová with a lead of 1.24 s over the American Mikaela Shiffrinová, in the third place they classified the Swiss Michele Gisinová with a deficit of 1.95 s for the Austrian opponent. In the end, Liensberger became the winner of the discipline evaluation, who collected 690 points this year, the second place was taken by Shiffrin with the gain of 655 points, the third position was occupied by the defending champion in the evaluation of the discipline Vlhová with the gain of 652 points.
Vlhová was also in the game for the big globe last year, but in the end she finished third in the overall ranking of the World Championships. At the end of February, she had 1,189 points on her account, the second Mikaela Shiffrin 1225 points and the first Italian Federica Brignone 1378 points. However, adverse weather conditions and the subsequent coronavirus pandemic caused the other ten SP races to be canceled, so Brignone won the globe.
In December 2012, Vlhová made her debut in the SP series in eleventh place in slalom in Semmering, Austria. She reached the top in her ninth World Cup season.
In December 2012, Vlhová made her debut in the SP series in eleventh place in slalom in Semmering, Austria. She reached the top in her ninth World Cup season.
“I am very happy that she succeeded. It is something incredible. It is the most a skier can achieve. I remember Peter as a child, now he is the best in the world. I am very proud that Slovakia has a big globe. thanks Peter, “ Veronika Velez-Zuzulová spoke in the RTVS broadcast with tears in her eyes.
Velez-Zuzulová, who will be more experienced, will never forget the aforementioned debutation of Vlhová in the World Championships, as she achieved her first triumph in the World Cup in the first races of 25-year-old Liptáček, exactly on December 29, 2012 in Semmering, Austria.
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