(Reuters) - Switzerland's Camille Rast won the women's slalom in Killington, Vermont, on Sunday for her first World Cup victory a day after pre-race favourite Mikaela Shiffrin was injured in a crash during the giant slalom.
Rast, who was third after the opening run and 0.12 seconds back of Germany's Lena Duerr, finished with a combined time of one minute 46.87 seconds to beat Sweden's Anna Swenn Larsson by 0.57 seconds. Switzerland's Wendy Holdener finished third.
The win propelled Rast, who placed third in Saturday's giant slalom, to the top of the slalom World Cup standings and overall World Cup standings.
"I don't know what to say, it's just really crazy in the moment and I am so happy about my skiing now," said Rast.
"It's just the beginning of the season and it's already going so good and I have to continue like this."
Duerr finished one spot off the podium.
This weekend was expected to be the crowing of Shiffrin's 100th World Cup victory and the American was in position to reach the milestone before a crash during which she suffered a puncture wound in her abdomen and severe muscle trauma.
Coming into the weekend, Shiffrin had won the slalom event at Killington in six of the seven years it has been held there.
The 29-year-old Shiffrin began the season needing three wins to reach the century mark on the World Cup circuit and set herself up to accomplish the feat on home snow with back-to-back slalom victories in Finland and Austria over the last two weeks.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
