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Swiss skier Loic Meillard settled in the lead after the elite fifteen of the 1st round of Wednesday night’s World Cup giant slalom.
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In Schladming, Austria, he led by 64 hundredths of a second ahead of compatriot Gino Caviezel, Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen (+1.06) was third. Slovak Adam Žampa advanced to the 2nd round, when he clocked 22nd, he was 2.94s behind the leader.
Wednesday’s race was a replacement for the canceled race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Marco Odermatt, the leader of the overall order of the SP and the provisional classification of the discipline, had to wait for the start, the Swiss still did not have time to heal his knee injury from Kitzbühel.
In the finishing area, he watched the great performance of his compatriot Meillard, who succeeded in the first lap under artificial lighting. He found a great rhythm from the start, perfectly timing the turns and avoiding mistakes. Competitors were not enough for his pace, the local Manuel Feller lost 1.52 seconds from the fourth position, the fifth Slovenian Žan Kranjec by 1.65 seconds.
Adam Žampa with starting number 40, he tried to be active, he was dynamic in the corners, he gained the necessary speed at the bottom and kept it until the finish, even at the cost of turning under the gates. It was the final sector that worked best for him, he achieved the fourteenth time in it. The second round was scheduled for 20:45.
