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After Kitzbühel, Linus Straßer also wins the night slalom in Schladming and celebrates his second World Cup victory in a row.
Schladming – Linus Straßer won the night slalom in Schladming and thus confirmed his strong form.
The Munich player led after the first round and didn't let the victory be taken away from him in the second round.
In the end, the 31-year-old won clearly ahead of the Norwegian Timon Haugan and the Frenchman Clement Noel.
Straßer with a historic double coup
For Straßer, it is the second World Cup victory in just a few days after Kitzbühel.
No German had ever achieved this double blow in the two classics within a few days.
Straßer didn't let the external conditions stop him in his fifth World Cup victory.
“Earlier in football, my games were the ones where things got dirty,” joked the winner on Bavarian television.
Linus Straßer won the night slalom in Schladming.
© Erwin Scheriau
Straßer wins in Schladming for the second time
He already managed an excellent first run and achieved the best time.
“At the start I was completely with myself, completely focused on the matter.
I had a plan of how I wanted to approach it and fully implemented it,” said the Munich native.
The victory three days earlier on the slope in Kitzbühel where he had once learned to ski and competed in his first children's races was a relief for Straßer.
“No one will take it from me anymore,” he said in Schladming, before adding: “But it doesn’t help me today either.”
Last year the TSV 1860 Munich athlete was eliminated in Schladming, but in 2022 he won.
With his fifth World Cup victory - before his four slaloms, Straßer had also won a parallel competition in January 2017 - the pole artist caught up with Thomas Dreßen in the German best list.
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Only three Germans with more World Cup victories
The speed specialist ended his career in Kitzbühel at the weekend.
Only Felix Neureuther (13), Markus Wasmeier (9) and Armin Bittner (7) celebrated more World Cup successes among men in this country.
Since Bittner in January 1990, no German has won two consecutive World Cup slaloms.
Sebastian Holzmann from Allgäu was the second German driver in the final and ended up in 19th place.
Anton Tremmel (41st) and World Cup debutant Nikolaus Pföderl (53rd) missed the second round.
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