Slalom heren Kitzbuhel

Sweden's Jens Byggmark completed a shock double on Sunday, winning his second career World Cup race just 24 hours after celebrating his first. The 21-year-old Swede, competing in his first full World Cup season, was lying in fifth place following the opening leg of Sunday's slalom but seized victory with a storming performance in the second run. Byggmark's combined time of one minute 44.20 seconds put him just 0.03 seconds ahead of Austria's Mario Matt, who was also runner-up to the Swede in Saturday's slalom.

Italy's Manfred Moelgg had led at the halfway stage but fell back to third place, a further 0.02 seconds back. Byggmark, who has finished in the top 10 of every slalom race this season, extended his lead in the discipline standings, where he has 343 points to Austrian Benjamin Raich's 265. Raich, the defending overall World Cup champion, took sixth place to climb up to fourth in the race for this year's overall title.

Overall leader Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway finished 16th to inch a little further ahead of nearest rivals Didier Cuche of Switzerland and Bode Miller. Miller, the 2005 overall champion, was unable to end his long-running jinx in the slalom discipline, failing to finish for the ninth consecutive time. The American, whose dismal run covers eight World Cup races and the 2006 Olympic slalom in Turin, was just five gates from the finish line on Sunday when a tight turn caused him to flip wide. Slalom World Cup champion Giorgio Rocca of Italy also had a bad day, crashing out at the third gate of the opening run.

Bron : eurosport.com