{"id":171521,"date":"2025-12-07T04:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:52:07","slug":"ski-racing-alice-robinson-claims-back-to-back-giant-slalom-world-cup-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171521\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski racing: Alice Robinson claims back-to-back giant slalom World Cup wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Zealander now has six World Cup victories,<\/a> the first earned at just 17, and she was one of eight athletes announced to represent New Zealand at the Winter Olympics in Italy early next year.<\/p>\n

The win leaves Robinson on top of the discipline standings with 232 points and she will have a chance to extend her lead with a second giant slalom on the same course tomorrow morning. Austria\u2019s Julia Scheib is second on 180 points.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, US star Mikaela Shiffrin, who finished third after the opening run, eventually finished sixth, 1.65s off the pace. Shiffrin appeared to be dealing with back pain at the finish.<\/p>\n

Though undefeated in slalom this season, Shiffrin is still searching for her best giant slalom form as she continues rebuilding after an abdominal injury.<\/p>\n

Swedish Olympic champion Sara Hector meanwhile crashed out in the opening run.<\/p>\n

In the overall World Cup standings, Shiffrin remains in front, holding a 122-point lead over Albania\u2019s Lara Colturi, who placed 23rd this morning.<\/p>\n

The season\u2019s speed races have yet to begin; the first are scheduled for next week in St Moritz, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealander now has six World Cup victories, the first earned at just 17, and she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3359,25629,59740,110814,275,2562,10542,13313,2374,110815,1304,111,139,69,3512,26479,6926,8466,25290,48432,105664,213,1961,8982,6202,377,2963],"class_list":["post-171521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alice","tag-alpine","tag-backtoback","tag-bagged","tag-canada","tag-claims","tag-cup","tag-giant","tag-meeting","tag-monttremblant","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-robinson","tag-season","tag-second","tag-ski","tag-skiing","tag-slalom","tag-sports","tag-this","tag-victory","tag-wins","tag-world","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}