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Loïc Meillard has the chance to go one better in the night slalom in Schladming the day after his 4th place in the giant slalom. The man from Neuchâtel is in 3rd place in the first run.
Last year's German winner Linus Strasser is in the lead ahead of Norway's Timon Haugan. Meillard is 36 hundredths behind Strasser, who started the race with bib number 1, and five hundredths behind Haugan.
Meillard led the giant slalom on Tuesday after the first run and ultimately missed the podium in fourth place by one hundredth of a second. In his second attempt, he could make it onto the podium for the sixth time this season on the Planai, but big names are lurking behind him.
Manuel Feller and Atle Lie McGrath follow with small gaps. Clément Noël, the four-time winner of the season and leader in the slalom World Cup, is in 6th place, Alexander Steen Olsen is in 11th place the day after his victory in the giant slalom.
The second-best Swiss racer after half the stint is Tanguy Nef. The man from Geneva, who has recently finished in the top ten three times in a row, is just behind Steen Olsen in 12th place, three positions ahead of Daniel Yule.
The second run starts at 20:45.