Henrik Kristoffersen captured the men’s slalom yesterday to complete a hat-trick of World Cup victories for Norway at Wengen.
After Norwegian victories Friday and Saturday in the combination and downhill, 21-year-old Kristoffersen raced to a fourth slalom win in five races after leading from the first run.
Kristoffersen attacked in the bottom half of the run to post a combined time of 1 minute 37.85 seconds, 0.30 seconds up on Italy’s Giuliano Razzoli with fellow Italian Stefano Gross third.
Defending World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher was out of the points after failing to finish the second run.
It leaves Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal top of the overall standings after his downhill victory on the Lauberhorn Saturday.
Svindal has 816 points, Hirscher is on 801, Kristoffersen on 671 and Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud - the combined winner Friday - on 533.
Between them, Svindal, Kristoffersen and Jansrud have given Norway 12 World Cup wins in 19 races this season, with victories in the last four races including Kristoffersen’s Adelboden slalom win last week.  Hirscher has five of the remaining victories.
“It is incredible. Me in Adelboden, then Kjetil, Aksel and me again today - that’s amazing,” Kristoffersen said.
“We have a lot of fun in the whole team, the mood is very good. That I am fast everywhere is really good for me. Where it’s steep I know I can be fast. When its flat I am not so sure.”
Kristoffersen has opened a clear lead in the slalom standings, advancing to 480 points, 140 ahead of Hiurscher, with Germany’s Felix Neureuther, who finished fifth, on 197 points.
But he said the season was still long and the slalom World Cup was still wide open.
“We have had only five (slalom) races so far. There are another five to come - that’s a lot of skiing,” he said.
In his third World Cup year, Kristoffersen now has eight World Cup victories, all in the slalom.
The men’s World Cup now moves to Kitzbuehel, Austria on Friday with super-g and combined events.