Austrian Marcel Hirscher edged defending champion Ted Ligety of the United States to win his fourth career Alpine Ski Men's World Cup giant slalom race on Sunday. Hirscher won with a combined two-run time of 2mins 38.45 secs to edge Ligety by .16 of a second with Germany's Fritz Dopfer third with a 2:39.07 total time. Ligety had the best time in the opening run, defying light fog and falling snow in a run of 1:18.53 to lead Hirscher by 0.21. But in the second run, Hirscher topped the speed charts with a run of 1:19.71 while Ligety was only fourth-best in the final run at 1:20.08. Ligety was on pace for the victory at the first interval but a bobble near the bottom gave the triumph to the 22-year-old Austrian. Ligety, who has won three of the past four overall giant slalom World Cup season titles, won the season-opening giant slalom race at Soelden, Austria, in October and leads the giant slalom standings by 180-140 over Hirscher. Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal finished ninth to stretch his lead on Swiss Didier Cuche, who was 12th on Sunday, in the overall points chase to 294-260 with Swiss Beat Feuz in third another 14 points adrift.