Hirscher turns slalom run into combined gold (Reuters)

Austria’s Marcel Hirscher turned a storming slalom run into the super combined gold medal at the alpine ski world championships on Sunday. Sitting over three seconds back of leader Kjetil Jansrud of Norway after the morning downhill, Hirscher, the three-time overall World Cup champion, erased all of the deficit with a blazing slalom leg for a combined winning total of two minutes, 36.10 seconds, according to provisional results. Jansrud, who held what appeared to be a massive 3.16 seconds advantage on Hirscher, needed all of it just to clinch his first world championship medal taking silver 0.19 back of the Austrian. American Ted Ligety, the defending combined champion, settled for bronze.