American AJ Damage made her first Alpine Snowboarding World Cup podium in her 61st begin, ending third in a slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Sunday.
Damage, 23, rallied from 16th after the primary spherical to publish the quickest second spherical.
Olympic gold medalist Petra Vlhova of Slovakia gained by 72 hundredths of a second over Germany’s Lena Duerr combining the occasions from each rounds. Damage was 87 hundredths behind.
Damage, a Tahoe native who studied engineering at Dartmouth, entered this season with a high World Cup end of 18th in a large slalom. He then took ninth and 11th in a pair of GS races in December. Her greatest slalom end earlier than Sunday was 25th.
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Damage’s 2022-23 season was lower quick in December attributable to surgical procedure to restore ligaments in his left ankle.
Damage grew to become the third American to succeed in the World Cup slalom podium previously 11 years, following Mikaela Shiffrin (who has a ladies’s file 80 slalom podiums) and Paula Moltzan, who had a runner-up end final season (and ranked fifth on Sunday) .
Earlier on Sunday, Shiffrin stepped on a gate and didn’t end the primary spherical.
Racing in falling snow, Shiffrin trailed Vlhova by 47 hundredths on the first checkpoint earlier than her left ski went the mistaken facet of the gate 24 seconds into the run.
It was a uncommon prevalence for Shiffrin, who final crossed a gate in a World Cup race within the second spherical of slalom on the identical hill in Slovenia in January 2022, a month earlier than the Beijing Olympics.
Shiffrin battled a chilly this week and completed ninth in Saturday’s GS. He then skipped the necessary public bead draw for Sunday’s race.
After snowboarding, Shiffrin congratulated Vlhova with a punch as she handed the chief’s chair.
All six slaloms this season have been gained by both Shiffrin or Vlhova.
The Girls’s Alpine World Cup strikes to Zauchensee, Austria subsequent weekend for 2 super-Gs and a downhill, stay Peacock.
The Related Press contributed to this report.