World Cup slalom win for Hirscher

Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the men's World Cup slalom race here on Monday ahead of Olympic champion Giuliano Razzoli of Italy and Germany's Felix Neureuther. Hirscher was already fastest after the first leg, 00.11 seconds ahead of Ivica Kostelic of Croatia and Razzoli, and he increased his winning margin to 00.56 seconds on the second run as the Italian took second place. It was a fifth World Cup win for the 22-year-old Austrian who also took over as overall World Cup leader with 425 points, ahead of Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway (416 points), who crashed out on the first leg. He previously won this season in a giant slalom at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Razzoli apart, three other Italians managed to place in the top eight skiing on home snow with Kostelic slipping back to fifth behind the podium placers and Andre Myhrer of Sweden who moved up from seventh to fourth. The slalomers are back in action on Wednesday at Flachauin Austria.