Mikaela Shiffrin was denied a 70th World Cup victory as Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova won a giant slalom in Jasna, Slovakia, on Sunday.
Shiffrin, the first-run leader by .16 of a second over Vlhova, ended up third after the second run, when she was held at the start for two and a half minutes while course workers fixed a broken gate.
Vlhova prevailed by .16 over New Zealand’s Alice Robinson for an extra meaningful victory on home snow.
Vlhova, who last year supplanted Shiffrin as the world’s top slalom skier, ended a 20-race victory drought, her longest internationally since her second of now 19 World Cup wins in March 2017.