KITZBÜHEL, Austria — Jens Byggmark won his second World Cup slalom in as many days Sunday. The 21-year-old Swede, racing in his first full World Cup season, went down the Ganslern course in a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 44.20 seconds. He was fifth after the opening run.
    Mario Matt of Austria was second to Byggmark for the second straight day, crossing in 1:44.23. Manfred Moelgg of Italy, the first-run leader, took third in 1:44.25 in a return to form after tearing knee ligaments last season.
    Until this weekend, Byggmark's previous best World Cup result was a fifth-place finish in a slalom at Beaver Creek, Colorado, in December. He has been in the top 10 of every slalom this season.
    ''This is just too much for me to understand. It's just too crazy,'' Byggmark said. "Winning a second race is much harder to believe, that I did twice. Today I was very motivated to do well again but I never dreamed I would win again.''

KITZBÜHEL, Austria — Jens Byggmark won his second World Cup slalom in as many days Sunday. The 21-year-old Swede, racing in his first full World Cup season, went down the Ganslern course in a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 44.20 seconds. He was fifth after the opening run.
    Mario Matt of Austria was second to Byggmark for the second straight day, crossing in 1:44.23. Manfred Moelgg of Italy, the first-run leader, took third in 1:44.25 in a return to form after tearing knee ligaments last season.
    Until this weekend, Byggmark's previous best World Cup result was a fifth-place finish in a slalom at Beaver Creek, Colorado, in December. He has been in the top 10 of every slalom this season.
    ''This is just too much for me to understand. It's just too crazy,'' Byggmark said. "Winning a second race is much harder to believe, that I did twice. Today I was very motivated to do well again but I never dreamed I would win again.''
    Bode Miller went out just five gates from the finish in his second run, but U.S. skier Ted Ligety, 27th after the first leg, had a blistering second run to finish seventh in 1:44.78.
    "It's nice to finally lay down a good run. I wasn't finding my edge early, but a couple of days ago I found a pair of skis that were just what I wanted," said Ligety. "It's a big advantage when you ski early in the second run. I got a good course and I looked at a lot of guys losing tons of time on the bottom as things changed in the sun. I've been unlucky in other races in the second run, so this is nice. It's always good to lay down a run like you know you can."
    Miller , the 2004 overall champion, finished the first leg in 17th place after getting thrown off-balance near the bottom of the course. The American, who had 1.35 to make up in his second run, was just .40 off at the final interval when he tripped up.
    "Three out of four guys in a row went out where Bode went out at the bottom," said coach Mike Morin. "The light went flat, there was a roll and when the sun went down, it was tricky. Bode and the guy after Bode on that second run went out there. So, people got on the radio, called back a course report for the rest of the skiers and that was it for that spot. Bode had a good run under way, and it could have been a nice confidence boost, but … "
    Miller hasn't completed a slalom in more than a year. He has failed to complete 18 of his last 21 World Cup slalom races. The last World Cup slalom Miller completed was here in Kitzbühel on Jan. 22, 2006, when he finished 18th.
    On Saturday, Miller straddled a gate in the first run, hiked back up two sets of gates to rerun it, then lost his right ski moments later.
    Miller has five career World Cup slalom victories, but the last one dates back to Dec. 13, 2004.
    Coach Morin said, "Slalom's been a struggle for us. The guys are working hard, skiing so well in training, so we're not going to change because we feel it's the right approach … but we need to get back some confidence. They need to bring it into the races. Ted was firing, as usual, though, and one in the top 10 is a start back for us."
    Aksel Lund Svindal placed 16th but retained his lead in the overall standings with 760 points. Didier Cuche of Switzerland, who doesn't race the slalom, is second with 677, while Miller stayed third with 640. Reigning overall champion Benjamin Raich of Austria finished sixth in Sunday's race and is fourth in the overall with 605.
    Byggmark, who had replaced teammate Markus Larsson at the top of the discipline standings with his win the previous day, now has 343 points after six slaloms. Raich is second with 265 and Matt third with 260. Larsson, who crossed 11th on Sunday, dropped to fourth on 249.    
    “I didn’t sleep so well last night because I had a hard time realizing what was happening to me so I felt a little tired this morning,” Byggmark said. “Yet I found back all my energy for the race and felt relaxed before the second run. I told myself that I was having a great time here and that I have to attack again because I had nothing to lose.”
    “I’m very proud now that a gondola of the Hahnenkamm lift is now going to have my name on the front side. It’s a big honor. I saw the ‘Stenmark’ gondola yesterday and I thought it would be cool to have one for me sometime in the future. It happened much faster than I thought.”
    Byggmark, who scored his first World Cup points at Levi, in November when he was sixth,has finished in the top 10 of every slalom race this season, extended his lead in the specialty standings, where he has 343 points to Austrian Benjamin Raich's 265.
    Matt was pleased by his fourth consecutive podium finish this year but also a little sorry to have missed another win at Kitzbühel by such a small margin. “I skied really well this afternoon but I made a few little mistakes this morning,” the 2001 slalom world champion said. “You need some luck to win by three-hundredths but Byggmark certainly fought hard too. At least I know I can ski for victory in slalom and I’ll do my best Tuesday at Schladming. I’m in great shape and this is the most important.”

— Patrick Lang, The Associated Press and USSA contributed to this report

THE SCOOP
By Hank McKee

Equipment
Men's slalom, Kitzbühel, Austria, Jan. 28, 2007
Skier, skis/boots/binding
1 Byggmark, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
2 Matt, Fischer/Nordica/Fischer
3 Moelgg, Fischer/Fischer/Fischer
4 Berthod, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
5 Neureuther, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
6 Raich, Atomic/Atomic/Atomic
7 Ligety, Rossignol/Rossignol/Rossignol
8 Pranger, Volkl/Lange/Marker
9 Palander, Fischer/Fischer/Fischer
10 Gini, Volkl/Tecnica/Marker

Men's slalom, Kitzbühel, Austria, Jan. 28, 2007 — It is the 23rd race of the men's 38-event World Cup schedule. … The sixth of 10 scheduled slaloms. … The second of three slaloms scheduled this week and the second of two races at Kitzbühel. … It is the only race originally scheduled at Kitzbühel's 67th annual Hahnenkamm to be held.
    It is the second career win for Jens Byggmark. … His second in slalom… His second of the season. … His second at Kitzbühel. … His second in two days. … He has just seven scoring results to his career, all from this season. … Six of the seven are top-10 slalom results, the other a 15th from combined at Beaver Creek. … He and Ingemar Stenmark are the only Swedes to ever win races at Kitzbühel.
    It is the 19th career World Cup podium for Mario Matt. … 18th in slalom. … It is the third time he has finished second in the Kitzbühel slalom, second time in two days. … He was also second in 2005, and he won the race Jan. 23, 2000. … He is also the 2001 world champion in slalom.
    It is the second career podium for Manfred Moelgg. … He was also second in the Schladming night slalom Jan. 27, 2004. … He matches defending World Cup slalom champion Giorgio Rocca for the best Italian slalom result of the season scored in the opener at Levi in November.
    It is the 14th career top-seven placing for Ted Ligety. … He was sixth at Kitzbühel in slalom last season. … It is his third slalom result of the season in six races and has also placed second (Alta Badia Dec. 18), and 15th (Kitzbühel Jan. 27).
    Aksel Lund Svindal (16th in race) maintains the lead of the World Cup overall standings 760-677 over Didier Cuche (did not race). … Bode Miller (second-run DNF) is third at 640 and Benjamin Raich (sixth in race) closes to 605 in fourth. … Byggmark extends his lead in the slalom rankings to 343-265 over Raich. … Matt is third at 260. … Michael Janyk (second-run DNF) is the top North American on the slalom list in seventh at 174. … Ted Ligety is the top U.S. American on the slalom list in 10th at 132. … Winning margin is .03 of a second. … Top three skiers are within the same tenth of a second. … Top 13 within a second. … Top 19 within two seconds.

Kitzbühel men's World Cup slalom results

Did not finish 1st run:
VON HOHENLOHE Hubertus (MEX), SECK Leyti (SEN), TODOROV Dean (BUL), SAMSAL Dalibor (CRO), VAN DEN BOGAERT Jeroen (BEL), STEHLE Dominik (GER), JITLOFF Tim (USA), BJOERGVINSSON Bjoergvin (ISL), BARRETT Scott (CAN), SKUBE Matic (SLO), NILSEN Andreas (NOR), MYHRE Lars Elton (NOR), BURAAS Hans-Petter (NOR), TIEZZA Luca (ITA), BROWN Roger G P (USA), KARLSEN Truls Ove (NOR), KAUKONIEMI Tuukka (FIN), BAXTER Noel (GBR), NORDH Fredrik (SWE), STUTZ Paul (CAN), ANDERSSON Oscar (SWE), BERGAMELLI Giancarlo (ITA), ROCCA Giorgio (ITA)

Did not finish 2nd run:
DRAGSIC Mitja (SLO), MILLER Bode (USA), VOGL Alois (GER), KOSTELIC Ivica (CRO), SCHOENFELDER Rainer (AUT), JANYK Michael (CAN), MYHRER Andre (SWE)

Disqualified 1st run:
LLORACH Gaetan (FRA)

Did not qualify 1st run:
ROMAR Andreas (FIN), HOROSHILOV Alexandr (RUS), QUARTEL DE Alwin (NED), SIMARI BIRKNER Cristian Javier (ARG), KRYZL Krystof (CZE), PICHOT Sebastien (FRA), RAINER Niklas (SWE), DIMITRIADIS Vassilis (GRE), GORZA Ales (SLO), VILETTA Sandro (SUI), SPORN Andrej (SLO), ROY Jean-Philippe (CAN), MORETTI Luca (ITA), IMBODEN Urs (MDA), TREJBAL Filip (CZE), ALBRECHT Kilian (BUL), RAZZOLI Giuliano (ITA), ROTHROCK Tom (USA), MISSILLIER Steve (FRA), BAUMANN Romed (AUT), BIGGS Patrick (CAN), BANK Ondrej (CZE), YUASA Naoki (JPN), LAHDENPERAE Anton (SWE), VALENCIC Mitja (SLO), DREIER Christoph (AUT), HARGIN Mattias (SWE), VAJDIC Bernard (SLO), COCHRAN Jimmy (USA), THALER Patrick (ITA), ALBRECHT Daniel (SUI), SASAKI Akira (JPN)

World Cup slalom standings (after 6 of 10 races)
1. Jens Byggmark, Sweden, 343 points.
2. Benjamin Raich, Austria, 265.
3. Mario Matt, Austria, 260.
4. Markus Larsson, Sweden, 249.
5. Felix Neureuther, Germany, 184.
6. Kalle Palander, Finland, 183.
7. Michael Janyk, Canada, 174.
8. Giorgio Rocca, Italy, 168.
9. Marc Berthod, Switzerland, 150.
10. Ted Ligety, United States, 132.
11. Manfred Moelgg, Italy, 129.
12. Andre Myhrer, Sweden, 126.
13. Silvan Zurbriggen, Switzerland, 125.
14. Manfred Pranger, Austria, 97.
15. Ivica Kostelic, Croatia, 96.

World Cup overall standings (after 23 of 38 races)
1. Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway, 760 points.
2. Didier Cuche, Switzerland, 677.
3. Bode Miller, United States, 640.
4. Benjamin Raich, Austria, 605.
5. Peter Fill, Italy, 570.
6. Kalle Palander, Finland, 429.
7. Marco Buechel, Liechtenstein, 407.
8. Mario Matt, Austria, 380.
9. Mario Scheiber, Austria, 377.
10. Michael Walchhofer, Austria, 374.
11. Ted Ligety, United States, 370.
12. Jens Byggmark, Sweden, 359.
13. Marc Berthod, Switzerland, 345.
(tie) Didier Defago, Switzerland, 345.
15. Hermann Maier, Austria, 331.