Milan, 15 March (LaPresse) – Mikaela Shiffrin has won the women’s slalom in Åre, the final race before the World Cup finals in Lillehammer. The American, claiming her 109th career victory and already assured of the crystal globe in the discipline thanks to eight wins in the nine slalom races contested this year, clocked a total time of 1’43"35, finishing 94 hundredths ahead of Emma Aicher, third place went to the charging Swiss skier Wendy Holdener, 1.00 seconds behind, who snatched the podium spot from Austria’s Katharina Truppe by 9 hundredths of a second. The three Italian skiers who had made the cut in the morning improved in the second run: Lara Della Mea finished 12th, 2.37 seconds behind, having moved up three places and clocking the ninth-fastest time in the second run. Seventeenth place and a career-best finish with a +5 for Emilia Mondinelli at 2.69 seconds, whilst Giulia Valleriani finished 26th at 4.30 seconds, gaining four places. Beatrice Sola, Alice Pazzaglia and Martina Peterlini failed to qualify for the second run; the latter was suffering from pain in her patellar tendon and withdrew during the run. In the overall World Cup standings, Shiffrin extends her lead with 1,286 points to Aicher’s 1,146; Camille Rast is third with 989 points to Sofia Goggia’s 853 in fourth. In the slalom standings, Shiffrin has 880 points, followed by Rast with 518 and Holdener with 418. For the season-ending race in Hafjell, reserved for the top 25, Lara Della Mea (14th), Martina Peterlini (25th) and Anna Trocker (gold medallist at the Junior World Championships) will represent Italy.