Alexis Pinturault was crowned world champion on Tuesday February 7, at home, during the combined event for the second time in his career, beating defending champion Marco Schwarz by a tenth.
Alexis Pinturault narrowly won the gold medal in the alpine combined at these world championships in Courchevel. With this victory, the alpine skier pockets a second gold medal in the combined after being crowned in Are in Sweden in 2019. This is his seventh medal in the world championship, his 76th podium and quite simply his 35th victoire.
The Pinturault-Schwarz duel
At home, the native of Moutiers narrowly beat the Austrians Marco Schwarz and Raphael Haaser. In the lead during the first run, the Frenchman had to manage in the second slalom run and in particular in the last part in order to grab those tenths of a precious second and necessary for this new victory in the World Cup in 1min53’21”. His dolphin, Marco Schwarz seemed fairer, but the Austrian skier failed in the last turn. In Courchevel, the snow finally smiled on Alexis Pinturault. As a reminder, in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy), the Frenchman had collected money for a few tenths behind a certain Marco Schwarz.
Alexis Pinturault has “difficulty realizing”, his reaction
The brand new world champion welcomed this conclusive day at the microphone of France TV after his coronation at home. “It’s been almost two years since I’ve had the worlds in mind. I’m having a season where I have good skiing but I was never among the best. Today, everything is coming together and I’m coming to seek the title . I was in such a bad place, I find it difficult to achieve. My goals were for the world championships “he proclaims satisfied.