Ted Ligety wins giant slalom title, Janka takes overall World Cup

Ligety wins GS title, Janka takes World Cup

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Ted Ligety won the World Cup giant slalom title and Carlo Janka won the overall World Cup title.

Janka, the Swiss Olympic champion, won Friday’s giant slalom race to clinch the overall title with one race remaining, going ahead of Benjamin Raich by 106 points to become the first Swiss man to win the overall title since Paul Accola in 1992.

Ligety wound up sharing third place, good enough to wrap up the title he also won in 2008.

The American led the standings and his closest rivals, Massimiliano Blardone and Marcel Hirscher, flopped in the first run. Blardone went off course and finished well behind, while Hirscher was disqualified for starting too early.

“I made some mistakes but so did many other guys, this is a new hill, totally new course,” Ligety said.

Ligety was on course for the giant slalom title with his third-place finish in the first heat and raced a risk-free, uneventful second leg to secure the title.

Davide Simoncelli was second in 2:21.18 and Ligety tied for third with Philipp Schoerghofer at 2:21.44.