Berlin, 7 January 2024 (dpa/MIA) — Petra Vlhova claimed a third slalom victory of the season on Sunday while big rival Mikaela Shiffrin completed a weekend in Slovenia to forget by straddling a gate in the first run.

Austrian Manuel Feller meanwhile won a men's slalom at the Swiss venue of Adelboden when he rose from fifth after the first run.

Slovakia's Vlhova took the lead in the first run in Kranjska Gora and held on in the second to beat Germany's Lena Dürr, who got her third runner-up finish of the campaign .72 of a second back.

AJ Hurt salvaged United States pride after Shiffrin's mishap when she got her first career World Cup podium in third thanks to the fastest second run which helped her rise 13 places.

Vlhova and Shiffrin have won three slaloms apiece this season and share the last eight top spots in the discipline since Dürr won in the Czech Republic in late January 2023.

It was Vlhova's 22nd career slalom win and 31st overall.

Record 93-time race winner Shiffrin went out mid-way through the first run, the after having to be content with ninth place in the Kranjska Gora giant slalom.

Shiffrin remains top of the slalom standings five points ahead of Vlhova while her lead in the overall standings over Vlhova is 207 points.

In Adelboden, Feller took the lead in the second run as the fifth-last skier and then watched on as no one could better it which gave him a fourth career success and second of the season.

Norway's Altle Lie McGrath missed victory by two-hundredth of a second as he remained second, while compatriot first run leader Alexander Steen Olsen crashed out early in the final run.

Third place went to Austrian Dominik Raschner who like Hurt climbed from 16th onto the podium with the best second run.

Feller tops the slalom standings while overall leader Marco Odermatt of Switzerland doesn't compete in slalom races.