Petra Vlhova wins overall World Cup title, Katharina Liensberger seals slalom World Cup

Katharina Liensberger took top spot in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on Saturday with a time of 1:49.77. Mikaela Shiffrin finished second (+1.24) on the podium with Switzerland's Michelle Gisin grabbing third (+1.95). She sealed the slalom World Cup title as Petra Vlhova celebrates winning the overall World Cup.

Petra Vlhova became Slovakia's first overall Alpine skiing World Cup champion on Saturday after finishing sixth in the final women's slalom of the season.

With only a giant slalom still to come in the Swiss resort of Lenzerheide on Sunday, Vlhova has her hands on the big crystal globe with an unbeatable 136-point lead over Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami.

Austria's Katharina Liensberger won the race and took the slalom World Cup title, 35 points clear of American runner-up Mikaela Shiffrin.

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The slalom title caps a remarkable year for Liensberger, who took slalom and parallel gold medals at the world championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in February.

‘What a way to close out the season!’ – Liensberger seals slalom World Cup

The last Austrian to win the women's slalom World Cup was Marlies Schild in 2012.

Six times slalom World Cup winner Shiffrin gave herself the best shot at the title by going top after her second run down the Silvano Beltrametti piste. But Liensberger, the last runner, descended 1.24 seconds faster to secure both win and title.

Gut-Behrami, also a double gold medallist at the world championships, did not race the slalom but her hopes of overhauling Vlhova had already all but disappeared when the downhill and super-G races were cancelled due to bad weather.

Vlhova had needed to finish only 15th to secure her first overall title.

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