Australia's highest ranked women's alpine skier, 17-year-old Greta Small, stretched her unbeaten record on home snow to seven victories when she won a hard fought International Ski Federation slalom event on day one of the national snowsport championships at Thredbo.
The win also enabled Small, the winner of the last two national open slalom championships, to secure her third consecutive Australian junior slalom title.
The plucky teenager, who is eyeing a place in Australia's Winter Olympic Games team in Sochi, Russia finished the two run event just 0.13 of a second faster than fellow Aussie Emily Bamford and 0.85 of a second quicker than Canadian Randa Teschner.
In the men's event, a strong international field of 65 athletes from 12 countries kept Australian skiers from finishing any higher than 10th.
Luc Henri Chevalier was the best performing Australian, finishing behind an American 1-2-3 clean-sweep by Will Brandenburg, David Chodounsky and Tim Kelley.
