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Hirscher Locks Up 3rd Giant Slalom Title

Marcel Hirscher of Austria retained his World Cup giant slalom title with a race to spare. He won Saturday’s race in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, to build an insurmountable 111-point lead in the discipline standings.

The last giant slalom is at the World Cup finals in two weeks in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

It’s the third giant slalom globe for Hirscher, who won last year and in 2012.

Hirscher held on to his first-run lead to finish 0.53 of a second ahead of Alexis Pinturault of France, who had won the past four giant slaloms. Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway was 1.