Shiffrin slalom reign ends

Skiing: Austria’s Katharina Liensberger has won the women’s slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships, while Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for a record fifth successive title has ended with bronze.

World Cup overall leader Petra Vlhova, of Slovakia, took the silver in the final race of the women’s programme in Cortina.

Liensberger’s gold was her second of the week, and her third medal in all, after finishing equal first in the parallel event and taking bronze in the giant slalom.

‘‘It’s amazing. I really gave it all today and I worked so hard for it,’’ said the Austrian, who led Vlhova by 0.30 seconds after the first run and extended that advantage to finish exactly a second clear.

‘‘It was so often so near and so close. I won this race and it means so much to me,’’ added the first Austrian women’s slalom world champion since Marlies Schild in 2011.