Swiss skier Camille Rast earns 1st World Cup win in slalom as Mikaela Shiffrin sits out after crash

KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Swiss skier Camille Rast earned her first career World Cup victory on Sunday in a slalom race that was wide open with Mikaela Shiffrin sitting out after a hard crash the day before in the giant slalom.

In third place after the first run, Rast powered down the tricky course to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 46.87 seconds. Anna Swenn Larsson of Sweden and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland tied for second, each 0.57 seconds back.

First-run leader Lena Duerr of Germany fell to fourth.

It was Rast’s second World Cup slalom podium in a week. She finished third in a slalom in Gurgl, Austria, last weekend. On Saturday, she earned her first World Cup giant slalom podium with a third-place finish in Killington.

“I don’t know what to say,” Rast said on the broadcast. “It’s just really crazy in the moment.”

This was the second time that Larsson and Holdener have tied in a slalom race at Killington, sharing the win in 2022.

The Killington race was missing two of slalom’s biggest stars in Petra Vlhova of Slovakia and Shiffrin. Vlhova is still recovering from a crash and knee surgery last winter, while Shiffrin remains sidelined with a puncture wound to her abdomen and severe muscle trauma from Saturday’s crash.

There is no timetable for Shiffrin’s return to racing, the U.S. Ski Team said in a statement released before the slalom.