Marco Schwarz pulls off stunning combined win at Alpine skiing worlds

Austrian Marco Schwarz stunned French favorite Alexis Pinturault to win the super combined by four hundredths of a second at the world Alpine skiing championships on Monday.

Schwarz, the world’s top slalom skier, put himself within striking distance of Pinturault, the defending combined champion, by finishing .32 behind the Frenchman in the morning super-G run.

Schwarz then posted the fastest slalom run of the top skiers to overtake Pinturault, who is likely to win his first World Cup overall title this season.

Swiss Loic Meillard took bronze, 1.12 seconds behind Schwarz. Canadian James Crawford, who had the fastest super-G, dropped to fourth after the slalom. Bryce Bennett, the only American…