Norway's McGrath leads Madonna di Campiglio World Cup slalom

Norway's McGrath clocked 51.96 seconds in northern Italy to give himself a chance of claiming a first World Cup win in nearly three years. The slalom specialist finished 0.62sec ahead of Loic Meillard who could overtake Henrik Kristoffersen at the top of the discipline standings after the second run which starts at 2045 local time (1945 GMT). Kristoffersen is gunning for a fourth World Cup slalom crown and is 25 points ahead of Swiss Meillard but had a poor first run which left him 1.09sec off the pace.