Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the men’s World Cup slalom race here on Monday ahead of Olympic champion Giuliano Razzoli of Italy and Germany’s Felix Neureuther. Hirscher was already fastest after the first leg, 00.11 seconds ahead of Ivica Kostelic of Croatia and Razzoli, and he increased his winning margin to 00.56 seconds on the second run as the Italian took second place. It was a fifth World Cup win for the 22-year-old Austrian who also took over as overall World Cup leader with 425 points, ahead of Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway (416 points), who crashed out on the first leg.
