Hirscher leads Ligety after 1st run of WCup GS (The Associated Press)

Overall champion Marcel Hirscher built a 0.19-second lead over Ted Ligety in the first run of the season-opening World Cup giant slalom on Sunday. The Austrian came down the Rettenbach glacier in 1 minute, 14.52 seconds to beat Ligety, who is the Olympic and world champion in the discipline and won the race the past three years. Third-place Fritz Dopfer of Germany was 0.52 off the lead, and Austrian veteran Benjamin Raich was 0.71 behind in fourth. Alexis Pinturault of France, who was third in the overall rankings last season, trailed Hirscher by 0.88.