Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) had the fastest second run Sunday and moved up to 12th place in a World Cup slalom with Tom Rothrock (Cashmere, WA) 18th. Austrian Manfred Pranger won the race, his career first, while World Cup leader Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) hooked a tip in the first run and did not make the top-30 cut from a second run.

Pranger led the first run and finished in 1:31.51 with teammate Mario Matt second (1:31.63). Ligety, who tied Benjamin Raich of Austria for the fastest second time, had a two-run time of 1:32.80 while Rothrock finished in 1:33.14.

With temperatures in the mid-20s, it was the first day of racing on the 65th Hahnenkamm Weekend after snow and rain forced cancellation of Friday's super G and a downhill Saturday. Miller survived the hooked tip but his time put him in 35th place. Chip Knight (Stowe, VT) was 31st in the first frun, missing the cut by .02. "After 5 o'clock [Saturday], I thought this would be the worst conditions for slalom, but it dropped down to about 11 below during the night," Head Coach Phil McNichol said, "and it set up beautifully, and Kitz did a great job preparing things.

"It certainly wasn't our best day in slalom," he said, "but that's slalom...and we did have a couple of shining moments, especially Ted's second run, which was pretty cool. He was blazing. And Tom's first run was good, but he never found the rhythm of the second run and dropped back."

Raich, his nearest challenger, shaved 32 points off Miller's lead by finishing eighth; with a super G Monday in Kitzbuehel and a slalom Tuesday night in Schladming before the World Championships begin Saturday in Bormio, Italy, Miller has 1,048 points to 882 for Raich.

MEN'S ALPINE WORLD CUP
65th Hahnenkamm Weekend
Kitzbuehel, AUT - Jan. 23, 2005
Men's Slalom

1. Manfred Pranger, Austria, 1:31.51
2. Mario Matt, Austria, 1:31.63
3. Ivica Kostelic, Croatia, 1:31.75
4. Rainer Schoenfelder, Austria, 1:31.84
5. Thomas Grandi, Canada, 1:32.16

12. Ted Ligety, Park City, Utah, 1:32.80
18. Tom Rothrock, Cashmere, Wash., 1:33.14

Did not qualify for 2nd run:
Bode Miller, Franconia, N.H.; Chip Knight, Stowe, Vt.; Jesse Marshall, Pittsfield, Vt.

DNF-1:
Erik Schlopy, Park City, Utah; Jimmy Cochran, Keene, N.H.; Paul MacDonald, Bellevue, Wash.

— Courtesy of US Ski Team