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Leona Popović
Leona Popović (; born 13 November 1997) is a Croatian alpine ski racer. Previously, she competed in all disciplines, but now specialises in slalom. Her best World Cup finish is sixth in slalom, achieved twice. Popović's first major competition was the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA, where she competed in all disciplines at age seventeen; her best result was 27th in slalom. By her 22nd birthday, she had incurred three surgeries on her left leg. In 2015, she broke her tibia while training slalom, and two surgeries were required in 2018 to fix torn knee ligaments ( ACL and MCL) sustained in a crash at the Olympics in the second run of the giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t .... World Cup results Season standings : Top ten finishes * 0 po ...
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Crveni Spust
Crveni spust () is a World Cup slalom ski course at Medvednica mountain near Zagreb, Croatia, first opened in 1946 by the city. This course is hosting World Cup slalom events since 2005 (women) and 2008 (men) for the Snow Queen Trophy Snow Queen ( hr, Snježna kraljica) is a World Cup alpine ski race held in the hills of Zagreb, Croatia. The men's and women's slalom races take place on the Medvednica mountaintop Sljeme, just north of Zagreb, usually in early January. The wome ... competition. It is located just north of the peak Sljeme, whose sports facility maintenance organization manages the venue. World Cup It hosted total of 15 World Cup events for women ( 37th of all-time) and 12 World Cup events for men ( 34th of all-time). Women's slalom Men's slalom Course sections *Filter, Flat, Finish Steep References External linksFIS Alpine Ski World Cup– Zagreb, CroatiaSki-db.com- Zagreb women's racesSki-db.com- Zagreb men's races {{Ski World Cup pistes Sk ...
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2022 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Slalom
The women's slalom in the 2021–22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2022 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of 9 events, including the final. 2020 discipline champion Petra Vlhová of Slovakia jumped out to the early lead in the discipline standings and was able to separate from her closest competitor, six-time champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States, when Shiffrin had to miss time at the end of December due to contracting the COVID-19 virus. Vlhová won five of the first six slaloms during the season and finished second in the other. Although Shiffrin won the next race on 11 January in Schladming and set a career record for World Cup victories in any discipline with her 47th slalom victory, Vlhová finished second and, with a 220-point lead and just two more races scheduled on the slalom calendar for 2021-22, she clinched the season crystal globe in slalom over two months before the end of the season. As noted above, the season was interrupted by the Alpine skiing at the 20 ...
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