Finlay Mickel and Chemmy Alcott stayed for the overall titles in the last two days as both won GS titles to add to the Super G of yesterday. In training, both also set the best times for tomorrow's downhill.

"I felt my second run was much better than my first.² said a delighted Mickel afterwards, ³ The first run I was still a bit heavy footed and tired after the efforts in Wengen at the World Cup there, and it does take a run to get your timing back and the faster movements Giant Slalom requires, but I know I¹m strong in it and it would be a good race."

The Women¹s title went to Chemmy Alcott, who held off the challenge from British Slalom No. 1 Emma Carrick-Anderson. Carrick-Anderson skied to within four hundredths of a second of Alcott on the second run but could not make an impressionon the young all-rounder¹s first run margin of 47 hundredths of a second.

Friday¹s Slalom championship is shaping up to be an exciting contest as current champion Alain Baxter goes head to head against his brother Noel, eight years his junior who has struck a great run of form and skied to within a second of Alain when he made his World Cup debut in Wengen last weekend.

RESULTS

The British Land National Ski Championships
Saalbach-Hinterglemm

British Championship GS: Men

1 Mickel (The British Land National Ski Team/Edinburgh)
2 J Barcock (The British Land National Ski Team/Bath) 5
3 R Baggett (Chingford)
4 C Mitchell (Scottish Alpine Ski Team/Inverness)
5 S Clough (Chelmsford)

British Championship GS: Women

1 Alcott (The British Land National Ski Team/Twickenham)
2 Carrick-Anderson (The British Land National Ski Team/Edinburgh)
3 D Bosher (Teddington)
4 J Greig (The British Land National Ski Team/East Molesey)
5 K Head (The British Youth Team/Oxford)

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