France's Clement Noel held his nerve to claim victory in Saturday's World Cup slalom in Chamonix. Third fastest in the opening leg, Noel clocked a winning aggregate of 1min 38.18sec over the two runs. It was a seventh World Cup victory for the 23-year-old French racer, all having come in the slalom. Switzerland's Ramon Zenhaeusern finished second, at 0.16sec, while Austrian Marco Schwarz, who was fastest in the first run, rounded out the podium, a further three-hundredths adrift. lp/nr