The Women's giant slalom competition at the
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 were held from 4 to 17 February 2019 in Åre, Sweden. The host city was selected at the FIS Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on 5 June 2014. The only other applicant was Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which ...
was held on 14 February.
[Start list]
/ref>Petra Vlhová
Petra Vlhová (born 13 June 1995) is a Slovak World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. Vlhová won the World Cup overall title in 2021 and the gold medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in the sl ...
won the gold, the first-ever for Slovakia
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at the World Championships
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. First run leader Viktoria Rebensburg took the silver, and reigning Olympic champion
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Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup ...
settled for bronze;[ defending champion Tessa Worley was sixth.
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Results
Run 1 was started at 14:15,Run 1 results
/ref> and run 2 at 18:00.[Final results]
/ref> Rain preceded the first run, with unseasonable temperatures well above freezing.[
Due to high winds,][ the start was lowered , reducing the vertical drop to .][
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References
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Women's giant slalom