Schladming, Austria  - Local fans had plenty to cheer about on Tuesday as Reinfried Herbst won a night slalom World Cup event held under floodlights in Schladming.

There was even more joy for the 50,000 crowd as Manfred Pranger took second place ahead of the overall World Cup leader Ivica Kostelic, who managed to expand his lead from Austrian Benjamin Raich.

With less than a week to go to the start of the alpine world championships in the French town of Val d'Isere, Herbst showed that he is in fine form as he picked up his second season win.

Herbst, who was leading after the first run ahead of Pranger, also managed to out-ski the opposition in the second run and won in a time of 1 minute 37.32 seconds, beating Pranger by more than a second. dpa