Hirscher Could Secure Slalom Crystal Globe André Myhrer Schwarz, Zenhäusern and Pinturault
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PREVIEW Men’s CITY EVENT – Tuesday 19 Feb 2019 Hirscher could secure slalom crystal globe • Marcel Hirscher will secure the slalom crystal globe if he leads by at least 200 points after the race in Stockholm. • It would be Hirscher's sixth crystal globe in the slalom after winning it from 2013 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2018. • Only Ingemar Stenmark (8) and Vreni Schneider (6) have won the slalom classification at least six times. NOTE: Mikaela Shiffrin could also win a sixth slalom globe in the city event in Stockholm. • Hirscher has won 17 World Cup classifications (all disciplines), third most all-time behind Lindsey Vonn (20) and Stenmark (19). • Hirscher is the only man to have won multiple city events in the World Cup. He won in Moscow on 29 January 2013 and in Stockholm on 23 February 2016. • Hirscher (10) could win 11 World Cup races in a single season for the second time, after 13 victories in 2017/18. André Myhrer • André Myhrer has collected a record five World Cup podium finishes in men's city events. Marcel Hirscher, Alexis Pinturault and Linus Strasser follow on three podiums each. • Myhrer won the city event in Oslo on 1 January 2018. • Only Myhrer (7) and Pinturault (4) have reached the semifinals more than three times in a men's World Cup city event. • Three Swedish men have won a World Cup race in front of a home crowd in Sweden: Ingemar Stenmark (6 wins), Thomas Fogdö (1) and Markus Larsson (1). • Larsson was the last Swede to achieve this when he won the slalom in Åre on 18 March 2006. Schwarz, Zenhäusern and Pinturault • Apart from Marcel Hirscher and André Myhrer, five other active male skiers have won a city event in the World Cup: Alexis Pinturault (Moscow 2012), Felix Neureuther (Munich 2013), Linus Strasser (Stockholm 2017), Ramon Zenhäusern (Stockholm 2018) and Marco Schwarz (Oslo 2019) • Schwarz claimed his first career World Cup victory in the city event in Oslo earlier this year. Only Hirscher has won successive men's city events in the World Cup: Moscow 2013, Stockholm 2016. • Zenhäusern has finished on the podium in the last two city events held in the World Cup. He won last year in Stockholm and finished third in Oslo earlier this season. • Pinturault has won 21 World Cup races and needs one more to equal the French record held by Carole Merle (22). Information provided by Other contenders • Dave Ryding finished second in the city event in Oslo on New Year's Day this year, his second World Cup podium in any event. • Ryding also reached the small final twice in a World Cup city event, losing to Mattias Hargin in Stockholm on 31 January 2017 and to Linus Strasser in Oslo on 1 January 2018. • A skier from Great Britain, male or female, has yet to win a World Cup race in any discipline. • Henrik Kristoffersen failed to survive the first round in all five World Cup city events he participated in. • The only Norwegian man to finish on the podium of a World Cup city event was Kjetil André Aamodt with a second place in Tignes on 24 October 1997. • Michael Matt finished second in the city event in Oslo last year. His only win in the World Cup came in the slalom in Kranjska Gora on 5 March 2017. International Ski Federation www.fis-ski.com Gracenote Sports on Twitter @GracenoteGold Information provided by .