Austrian Schild’s hat-trick in slalom World Cup race

Austrian skier Marlies Schild made it three wins from the three World Cup slalom races this season on Tuesday.The 30-year-old — already a winner in Aspen and Courchevel — recorded her 30th win in the discipline and 32nd overall World Cup success beating German ace Maria Hofl-Riesch by 46hundreths of a second while Slovenia’s Tina Maze was third, 82hundreths adrift.Schild set up her victory with a brilliant first leg where she established a sizeable advantage over Maze with Hofl-Riesch third fastest.Her victory places her eighth in the table of overall World Cup wins, someway behind all-time leader fellow Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proll, who recorded 62 career wins.