Alexis Pinturault won the combined at the Alpine Skiing World Championships at home in Courchevel on Tuesday February 7, the first men’s race of the competition. The French skier obtained his sixth planetary individual medal, his second in gold in this discipline after that gleaned in Are (Sweden) in 2019. He ideally launches the world fortnight of the French team.
In difficulty for two years, the tricolor leader thwarted the predictions in front of the French supporters, by achieving the best time in the first round (super-G), before resisting the Austrian Marco Schwarz in the second (slalom) .
ten hundredths of a second
Marco Schwarz is the one who had deprived « Door » gold two years ago at the Worlds in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy) for only four hundredths. This time there was ten hundredth but in favor of the Frenchman. Behind this duo, another Austrian, Raphael Haaser, took the bronze medal, 44 hundredths behind Alexis Pinturault.
The victory is all the more beautiful for the 31-year-old French skier as it comes in a difficult season, during which he only climbed on a World Cup podium once.
Once again, Alexis Pinturault was able to perform well in a major event. He embellishes his prize list, already the most impressive in French skiing, with 34 World Cup victories, three Olympic medals and, now, six individual world medals.