American Mikaela Shiffrin kept her cool in the slalom to claim gold in the alpine combined at the world championships on Monday, her second medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo, her sixth gold and an US record ninth medal overall. Shiffrin, who won bronze in last week's super-G proper, had sat in prime position to challenge for the podium after finishing third in the combined's opening super-G. The 25-year-old then gave a masterclass in slalom skiing to post a combined time of 2min 07.22sec over the two runs down the Olympia delle Tofane course. Slovakia's World Cup overall leader Petra Vlhova took silver, at 0.86sec, with the Swiss team nabbing a sixth medal of these champs as Michelle Gisin took bronze, a further three-hundredths adrift. lp/gj