In the second race of the season, held at the Levi track in Finland, the 19-year-old Lara Colturi, representing Albania, secured second place in the Slalom discipline. with a total time of 1:50.58, just 1.66 seconds behind the winner, American champion Mikaela Shiffrin.

She has excelled again in the Ski World Cup, climbing to the podium for the fourth time in her career.

Colturi started the race at a high pace, coming in second in the first run, 1.08 seconds behind Shiffrin. In the second run, she recorded the third-fastest time, just 0.58 seconds behind the American.

Despite Slalom not being her main specialty, Lara Colturi achieved an excellent result, placing second in the final classification.

This performance comes just three weeks after her seventh-place finish in Solden, Austria, and coincides with her 19th birthday, making this day even more special for the talented skier who continues to make her name on the world alpine skiing scene.

Lara Colturi, with this second place in the Slalom race, received 80 points, bringing her total to 116 points after the first two World Cup races, and sees herself in third place in the overall standings, behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Paula Moltzan.

The young Italian-Albanian talent had a 0.17-second lead from run 1 on Rast—not much, so nothing to rest on. Colturi gave back some time on the top section, looking less energetic than Rast, but managed to improve on the mid-section again. Where she really excelled was the flat bottom section, where the 19-year-old squeezed out a time advantage of 0.18 seconds on Rast, catapulting herself onto the podium again after claiming second last week in Levi.

Next week, Lara Colturi will be on the Gurgl track in Austria, in the Slalom discipline.

On the other hand, Alpine skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin backed up her triumph in Levi with a second consecutive slalom win in Gurgl, Austria, on Sunday to continue her strong start to the World Cup season.