He led after the first leg and easily held off Jens Byggmark, finishing with a combined time of 1 minute, 34.81 seconds. Byggmark was 0.80 seconds behind while Ted Ligety was third. Andre Myhrer finished fourth, with Bode Miller in fifth.

"Last week I wasn't feeling well and I was skiing too direct," Grange said. "This week I worked on my technique. Everything is going well at the moment."

Grange also won Friday's super-combi for only the second World Cup victory of his career, after taking the slalom event last month in Alta Badia, Italy. Before this season, Grange didn't have a top-three finish in a World Cup event, though he did win a bronze medal in the slalom at last year's world championships.

Byggmark and Ligety filled out a youthful podium.

"We're going to stay here for a couple of years," said Byggmark, the 22-year-old Swede, who put together two solid runs to finish as runner-up for the second time this season.

Ligety, like Grange, is only 23. He made a mistake early in his first leg but stormed down in the second in the fastest time of the day to climb from 17th to third.

"I've been having so much trouble finishing, it has kind of gone to my head at times," said Ligety, who has gone out in five races this season. "But I knew I have been skiing really fast and in training it's been awesome. I knew I had to throw the hammer down to move up in the second run and I'm super-psyched that I moved up to third place."

Miller also gained places with a strong second run, moving from 15th. The American first burst onto the tour as a technical specialist but has been mired in such a poor stretch of slaloms that betting companies were offering odds at around 100-1 for a Miller slalom victory on the Lauberhorn.

"It doesn't really surprise me at all," Ligety said of Miller rediscovering some of the form that led him to five World Cup slalom wins between 2002 and 2005. "Bode Miller is probably one of the most talented ski racers ever."

It was the best slalom finish for Miller since the last race of the 2004-2005 season, when he became the first American skier in over two decades to win the overall title.

The 30-year-old, who broke away from the U.S. Ski Team to compete on his own this season, also completed a slalom leg on Friday to finish third in the super-combi.