US teenage ski star Mikaela Shiffrin won the women's night slalom in Flachau, Austria, on Tuesday in dominant fashion, beating her rivals by close to a second.
The 18-year-old, who won in Flachau for a second successive year, clocked a time of 1min 45.83sec over two runs.
Two Swedes completed the podium with Frida Hansdotter second at 0.83sec, and Maria Pietilae-Holmner third at 1.14sec.
Shiffrin, the reigning slalom world champion and winner of last year's World Cup crystal globe in the discipline, led after the first run, having put in a thundering performance to finish 0.90 sec ahead of Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch.
In the second run, she made a few mistakes but nevertheless proved unbeatable, even as the skiers faced poor visibility and rain on the course.
"There were a couple of moments where I thought I was going out ... I had to fight," she said after the race.
"Nine tenths of a second is a lot of time, it seems like, but it goes away really fast.
"It's a tough hill because it's not steep and it's not flat, sometimes you don't know how to take it."
The youngster thus confirmed her dominance in the slalom, with less than a month to go before the Olympics in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
She leads the World Cup rankings now with 402 points ahead of Hansdotter with 258 points.
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