Skier Olga Charvatova of Czechoslovakia surged from...

Skier Olga Charvatova of Czechoslovakia surged from 32nd place in the morning run at Piancavallo, Italy, to claim her first World Cup victory in a slalom.

Charvatova, in her eighth year on the circuit, clocked an aggregate time of 1 minute 28.08 seconds on the 53-gate Sauc course to edge world slalom champion Perrine Pelen of France by 3/100ths of a second.

Charvatova’s best previous finish this season was a third last month at Oberstaufen, West Germany, in a giant slalom. That matched her third place in a downhill in France in 1984 and in a slalom in 1982.