Olympic champion Clement Noel took the lead after the opening run in Sunday's World Cup men's slalom as the Frenchman sought his first victory in more than a year.
Noel set the fastest time on the final two sections of the Verte course, beating Norway's Timon Haugan by 0.23 seconds.
Manuel Ferrer was third, 0.40 behind. The Austrian has won three of the six slalom events so far, taking him to the top of the event standings.
Linus Strasser, who won the last two rotations of Kitzbühel and Schladming, was 17th, 1.24 points behind Noel after Sunday's second run.
“It was a solid run. When I crossed the finish line, I knew it was a good run,” said Noel, who has 10 career wins, but only one since his Beijing Olympic gold medal two years ago.
“My first part wasn't that good, but I was kind of doing it a little bit on purpose to make sure I was solid at the beginning and not doing anything crazy,” he said. “And I tried to hit rock bottom, and it worked.”
Noel also took the lead in the opening run of the night slalom at Madonna di Campiglio in Italy last December, but ultimately finished runner-up to Marco Schwartz.
The result put Schwartz at the top of the overall standings, but the Austrian suffered a season-ending knee injury on the downhill stretch the following week.
The slalom at Chamonix, the resort at the foot of Mont Blanc that hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924, was the only World Cup ski race to be held this weekend.
Two men's downhill races in Chamonix and a women's speed race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany were all canceled due to poor snow conditions.
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