Switzerland’s Olympic champion secured FIS globes for both the parallel giant slalom and the Alpine snowboarding overall title.

Double Olympic champion Ester Ledecká, already assured of the parallel giant slalom crystal globe, as well as the women’s Alpine snowboard tour overall crystal globe, proved winner again – although only by a margin of 0.02 seconds over Alena Zavarzina of Russia.

"I could see Alena the whole way and I knew it would be tight," said the Czech Republic athlete.

Next week Ledecká, who won both Alpine Ski and Snowboard golds in Pyeongchang, will switch back to the former discipline as she flies to Åre for the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Finals.

Galmarini’s run towards the final came to a sudden halt in the semi-finals as he came up against Poland’s Oskar Kwiatkowski, who produced the run of his life to relegate his rival to the small final.

There, the Swiss athlete beat Italy’s Aaron March to secure third place.

"To finish on the podium at my home mountain is special," said Galmarini.

"But to win my first PGS (parallel giant slalom) title and first overall title here as well, words cannot describe how happy I am." 

In the big final, however, Kwiatkowski could not overcome Tim Mastnak of Slovenia, who earned his first World Cup victory.

It was nevertheless the first World Cup podium for the young Pole.

Galmarini now has 6,250 points in the overall standings, with Italians Edwin Coratti and Roland Fischnaller second and third on 4,253 and 4,066 respectively.

Ledecká has 7,540 points, with Theresia Hofmeister of Germany on 5,130 and fellow German Selina Joerg on 5,010.

Meanwhile France’s Olympic Snowboard Cross champion Pierre Vaultier has secured the overall International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup title with second place in the penultimate race of the 12-stop series in Moscow.

Vaultier was beaten on the day by Austria’s Alessandro Hemmerle, who stands second in the overall standings.

But such was the 30-year-old Frenchman’s lead that eighth place would have sufficed for his sixth title, even if Hemmerle had won this event and the concluding race.

In women's competitions the Czech athlete Eva Samkova earned victory , with second place going to France’s Nelly Moenne Loccoz, but third place was enough to maintain the overall standings lead of Italy’s Olympic champion Michela Moioli.

In the finals, the women started three times:

The first race was stopped immediately due to the non-simultaneous opening of the gates on the grid.

The second race was won by Samkova, but the French team, three representatives of whom were in the final, filed a protest, saying that the gates had again failed to open properly.