St-Germain became the first Canadian to win a women’s slalom since Anne Heggtveit struck gold at the 1960 Winter Olympics
in Squaw Valley, Calif., which also counted as the world championship. She also became the first Canadian woman to claim a world title in any Alpine discipline since 2003, when Melanie Turgeon won the downhill in St. Moritz.
She also had a connection to Turgeon because she trained on the same hill as Turgeon at Mont-Sainte-Anne resort.After her first run over Meribel’s Roc-de-Fer course, St-Germain was third behind Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener and the front-runner, Shiffrin. There was a 0.61-second difference between the Canadian and American.
Duerr kept an eye on the massive video screen as Shiffrin made her down the hill with her second run. The German noticed the American lost time at the top. When Shiffrin crossed .59 seconds behind to finish second behind St-Germain, the Duerr had the answer.St-Germain’s previous career best results were a sixth-place showing in the slalom at the 2019 worlds and sixth at the 2020 World Cup slalom in Levi, Finland.
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