MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) — World champion Anna Fenninger of Austria held on to her first-run lead to win a women’s World Cup giant slalom Saturday and reduce her deficit to overall leader Tina Maze of Slovenia to 84 points.
Fenninger used a strong finish to her final run to finish in a total time of 2 minutes, 24.50 seconds and edge Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany by 0.04.
In front of her home crowd, Maze fell with only two gates left in the first leg. Lindsey Vonn also failed to finish the opening run when the American crashed into the safety netting but escaped injuries.
Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein came 0.30 behind.
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin was third after the opening run but dropped to fifth, 0.54 off the lead.
