Ester Ledecka (CZE) and Alexander Payer (AUT) have come out victorious of the season's second parallel giant slalom event of the Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour which took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy on December 15.
Reigning World Champion and World Cup leader Ledecka who had already triumphed in yesterday's Carezza PGS kept the momentum from South Tyrol. With the bad weather hitting the speed programme in Val d'Isere, Ledecka has made the most of her decision to skip the alpine races and head to the Snowboard races in her goal to qualify and race in two different disciplines in Pyeongchang at the Olympics.
Storming down the Tondi Normale slope through the fog which also caused Race Organisers to several longer delays, the top qualifier celebrated a back-to-back win beating Germany's Selina Joerg in the women's final.
It was the first time in two and a half years for Joerg, the second fastest of the qualification runs, to podium since her third rank finish in Winterberg, Germany back in March 2015.
In an all Austrian battle for third it was former World Champion Claudia Riegler who crossed the finish line ahead of her younger teammate Sabine Schoeffmann.
In the men's event, Alexander Payer earned his career's first dominating the final men's run against local favourite Roland Fischnaller (ITA).
Sylvain Dufour (FRA) rounded out the podium in third position with new World Cup leader Nevin Galmarini (SUI) placing fourth.
The Alpine Snowboard World Cup tour will continue tomorrow with the season's first parallel slalom slated to take place under the lights on the Tondi Normale slope of Cortina d'Ampezzo.
The finals are scheduled for 19:20 CET with Live TV time information available here.