Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Abi­gail Viera closed off her de­but ap­pear­ance at the Youth Win­ter Olympic Games with a 29th place fin­ish in the Women’s Slalom at the Les Di­a­blerets Alpine Cen­tre yes­ter­day in Lau­sanne, Switzer­land, on Tues­day.

The Unit­ed States-based ski­er reg­is­tered a time of 53.73 sec­onds in the open­ing run of the com­pe­ti­tion on the Willy Favre course to be in 36th place of the 78 com­peti­tors.

Switzer­land’s Lena Volken, with a 36.08-clock­ing, topped the leader­board af­ter the first run, hold­ing a nar­row ad­van­tage of 0.03 over Swe­den’s Em­ma Sahlin at the mid­way point, while Han­na Aron­s­son Elf­man (45.49), al­so of Swe­den, round­ed off the top three.

Viera record­ed a quick­er time in the sec­ond run Tues­day, with her ef­fort of 51.88 mov­ing her up six spots and to an over­all time of 1:45.61 which saw the 17-year-old plac­ing 29th.

Mean­while at the top in the bat­tle for gold, Sahlin switched po­si­tions with Volken af­ter the Swedish ski­er fin­ished with an over­all time of 1:29.82. Vold­en was nar­row­ly beat­en in­to the sil­ver medal po­si­tion af­ter her 1:30.00-clock­ing. Lara Klein (1:30.25) rose to the bronze medal po­si­tion.

Yes­ter­day was Viera’s fi­nal event at the Youth Games af­ter plac­ing 42nd in her open­ing event, the Su­per-G, last Fri­day; 33rd in the Alpine Com­bined the fol­low­ing day and 45th in the Gi­ant Slalom event on Sun­day.