Cornella Wins FIS Slalom at La Molina Catalan Championships

Xavier Cornella won the FIS slalom at La Molina, part of the Catalan Championships, posting a winning time of 1:33.73 to earn 23.00 FIS points. The Andorran led after the first run with a half-second advantage and recorded the fourth-fastest second-run time to secure victory ahead of Spain's Tomás Barata, second at +0.08, and the Netherlands' Aleix Linse, third at +0.76.

Pirmin Estruga placed sixth overall and took the under-21 category title with his best FIS points performance of the season. Fellow Andorrans Èric Guimerà finished 15th, and Marcel Pérez was 16th. In the women's event, Anna Raméntol ended 14th.

At the British Junior Nationals giant slalom in Santa Caterina, Italy, Íria Medina secured sixth place in the women's category with a time of 2:00.06, 2.27 behind winner Katie Rowekamp of the United States (1:57.79). Medina posted the eighth-fastest first-run time (+1:34) and ninth in the second (+0:93). Max Black finished 21st in the men's event at 1:59.22, 3.74 off the pace set by Britain's Zak Carrick-Smith (1:55.48), improving from 20th after the first run (+2:15) to the 14th-best second-run split (+1:59). Jordi Rogel did not finish his first run.