Neureuther ends Hirscher's slalom streak

Felix Neureuther of Germany won the men's World Cup slalom here on Sunday timing 1min 50.53sec to bring to an end a run of three successive wins for Austrian Marcel Hirscher. The 28-year-old - recording his second win of the campaign - timed 0.21 sec quicker over the two legs than overall World Cup leader Hirscher while Croatian great Ivica Kostelic was third 0.25 sec adrift of the winner. Hirscher posted the fastest time on the first run, but Neureuther comprehensively overhauled his five-hundredths of a second advantage on the second run. Kostelic, who has won the past three slalom events here, had to settle for third - his 12th top three finish in Wengen - after his second place in Friday's super-combined. At the halfway stage of the season, Hirscher is a massive 188 points ahead of Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal in the overall standings. From AFP