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Two former ߣÏÈÉú and Snowboard Club Vail skiers led the U.S. ߣÏÈÉú Team in Friday’s giant slalom at the 2025 FIS Alpine World ߣÏÈÉú Championships in Saalbach, Austria.

River Radamus and placed 17th and 19th, respectively, as Raphael Haaser delighted the home crowd with a gold-medal performance. Radamus — who was fourth in the event at the 2022 Olympics and also placed fourth in the Alpine Combined at the 2023 world championship — finished with a two-run time of 2 minutes, 41.36 seconds, 1.65 seconds off of Haaser’s winning time. But the Edwards skier dropped six places from the first run to the second.

“I’m disappointed. I felt like I skied well today,” Radamus told NBC. “It’s a long course, but it’s pretty easy, so you have to be absolutely on the limit, you have to make no mistakes.”

Radamus struggled at the top of the 450-meter Zwolfer course, posting the 31st and 24th-best times in the first two sectors before finding some speed at the bottom.

“I felt like I made a couple too many mistakes,” he said. “And you know, I know in my mind’s eye, something more was possible today, but it just didn’t happen for me today.”

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The 27-year-old opened the championships by helping the U.S. finish fourth in the team parallel. He also finished 19th in the super-G on Feb. 7, but struggled with illness earlier this week.

“Everybody battles illness. It seems like it’s going around this time of year,” Radamus said. “You try to stay healthy when you can. It caught me a little earlier this week; it’s been tough, but everybody out here is dealing with something. You just have to step up and attack it.”

Fellow Americans Patrick Kenney finished 32nd and Isaiah Nelson did not start his second run. Marco Odermatt, the heavy favorite coming into the event, finished fourth as his Swiss teammates, Thomas Tumler and Loic Meillard, claimed the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

The 2025 FIS Alpine World ߣÏÈÉú Championships wrap up in Austria on Sunday with the slalom.