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Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel produced a storming second run to win the women's giant slalom at the FIS Junior World Championships in Roccaraso, Italy on Saturday (3rd March).

Mowinckel, who was seventh after the first run, clocked one minute 18.59 seconds for a combined winning time of two minutes 40.02.

Sweden's Sara Hector took the silver, 0.26 of a second off the pace, while Adeline Baud of France completed the podium.

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The stars of tomorrow were put thorugh their paces in the second and final run of the women's giant slalom at the Junior World Championships in Roccaraso, Italy on Saturday.

Adeline Baud of France took full advantage of the near-perfect conditions, clocking one minute 19.36 seconds.

Her combined time of 2:40.80 was good enough to grab the provisional lead from Austria's Lisa-Maria Zeller.

Few expected Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel to feature on the podium after she clocked the seventh quickest time in Friday's first run.

But the 19-year-old put herself in medal contention with blistering run which slicied 0.78 of a second off Baud's time.

It proved to be good enough to capture gold.

Defending champion Sara Hector couldn't match the form which saw her top the timesheet on Friday.

The Swede had to settle for silver after a second run which left her 0.26 of a second behind Mowinckel.

There is more action from Italy on Sunday with the men's super-G