Sestriere – Mikaela Shiffrin put her setback from the two giant slalom and put it in the slalom of Sestriere for an interim time. After the first round, the American leads just before the Croatian Zrinka Ljutic (0.09 seconds), World Cup bronze medalist Katharina Liensberger is in third place (+0.34). With Katharina troop as a fifth, a second ÖSV runner is in striking distance to the leading one, and Shiffrin lost 0.47 seconds.
