Marco Odermatt is the fastest at the end of the first run of the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora. With a time of 1'12"16 the Swiss is 28 hundredths ahead of French Alexis Pinturault and 47 ahead of Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen. Well the Azzurri with the sixth time for Filippo Della Vite, 1 "11 from Odermatt, seventh Luca De Aliprandini (1'13 "82). Among the other Italians in the race, Hannes Zingerle is 13th, Tobias Kastlunger 25th, Alex Hofer 33rd, Alex Vinatzer finished 35th.
Out Giovanni Borsotti and Simon Maurberger. The race is decisive for the Specialty Cup, because if Odermatt closes the day with more than 100 points ahead of Kristoffersen he will have won arithmetically also this crystal globe after those already on the board of the super-G and the general. Second run at the start at 12.30.