ARE, Sweden – Olympic champion Marcel Hirscher won the season-ending men’s World Cup giant slalom on Saturday for his 58th career victory.
The Austrian had already locked up the season title in the discipline and his seventh consecutive overall championship two weeks ago. On Saturday, he became only the third skier to win 13 races in a single World Cup season, after Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark in 1978-79 and Austria’s Hermann Maier in 2000-01.
“This is definitely something so unreal,” said Hirscher, who can set a new best mark in Sunday’s slalom.
Hirscher fractured his ankle in a training run on his first day on snow in August and missed the entire preseason preparation.