Kieffer Christianson takes first giant slalom title

Kieffer Christianson won his first national title Saturday at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships with a total time of 2 minutes, 16.62 seconds.

Despite posting DNFs in Thursday’s Super G and Friday’s slalom, Christianson won the first run and pushed his lead to .83 seconds in the second, besting Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Erik Read.

The competition wraps up Sunday with the women’s giant slalom.

This story was originally published March 26, 2016 at 11:27 PM with the headline "Kieffer Christianson takes first giant slalom title."