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Robinson has strong finish to alpine ski season

11:23 am on 20 March 2023

picture id="4MDAWFE_copyright_image_258413" crop="16x10" layout="full"]Alice Robinson

Queenstown skiier Alice Robinson has wrapped up her Northern Hemisphere competition season with a seventh-place finish at the Giant Slalom World Cup finals in Andorra.

It equals Robinson best Giant Slalom World Cup result in almost two years.

After a solid first run, she was sitting in 14th position, +1.59 seconds behind the leader, American star Mikaela Shiffrin.

Knowing she had a significant amount of time to claw back, Robinson pushed out of the start gate for her second run with her trademark aggressive skiing.

She clocked the second fastest time on the second run pulling back almost a second to finish just +0.77 behind winner Shiffrin and just +0.57 off the podium.

-RNZ