Pinturault finally gets elusive gold

Alexis Pinturault finally transferred his consistent winning form on the World Cup circuit into a gold medal at a major championship.

The French skier produced the second-fastest slalom leg in the Alpine combined at the world championships in Are, Sweden, to rise from 24th place after the downhill portion and win by 0.24 seconds. Stefan Hadalin of Slovenia was second, and Marco Schwarz of Austria took bronze, 0.46 behind Pinturault.

It was Pinturault’s first major individual gold, even though he has won the World Cup combined title on four occasions.