ST MORITZ, Switzerland (Reuters) - Austria's Marcel Hirscher won giant slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after a delay caused by a Swiss air force plane slicing through an overhead television camera cable. Friday's victory ended his long wait for a first giant slalom gold after the five times overall World Cup champion took silver in 2013 and 2015. The gold was his fifth at a world championships, and third in an individual event. "The GS was the gold medal that I had yet to win so today’s race had great meaning for me." Leitinger climbed from sixth position after the first run to capture the silver medal, the first of his career.

Source: The Star February 17, 2017 14:26 UTC