Frida Hansdotter claims second World Cup win of her career

BySportsbeat

Updated 13/01/2015 at 22:13 GMT

Frida Hansdotter warmed up for next month's Alpine World Ski Championships in style as she claimed just the second World Cup win of her career with slalom victory in Flachau, Austria.

Frida Hansdotter

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The great and the good of alpine skiing descended on Austria for the final women's slalom race before the February World Championships in America kick off.

And Swede Hansdotter claimed a morale-boosting win as she claimed victory in a total time of 1:49.59 minutes.

Tina Maze of Slovenia was 0.61 seconds behind in second, while American Mikaela Shiffrin improved from a disappointing opening run to finish third, 0.63 behind.

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There was plenty more for Hansdotter to celebrate in Austria as the victory strengthened her position at the top of the slalom World Cup standings.

She now has 420 points, with Shiffrin in second place on 379, although it is Maze who leads the overall World Cup standings on 857.

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