Lara Gut-Behrami’s season is well and truly underway. 3rd in the downhill on Saturday, the 33-year-old Ticino confirmed her rise in power by taking 2nd place in the super-G – the first of the winter – at Beaver Creek this Sunday. His 92nd top 3 in the World Cup.
Holder of the big crystal globe and the small one of the specialty, she set off with bib 9 and delivered an impeccable round of mastery, allowing her to settle for a time in the chair of the provisional leader.
If she breathed a sigh of relief after the next three rounds, during which Federica Brignone, Cornelia Hütter and Marta Bassino narrowly missed taking first place from her, she had to bow to Sofia Goggia, who beat her of 48 hundredths. Back on the white circus this weekend, ten months after her serious injury to her right leg, the Italian made a very strong impression.
The podium is completed by the surprising Austrian Ariane Raedler (+00”55). The latter, aged 29, climbs onto the box for the second time in her career in the World Cup, almost three years after her 3rd place acquired in super-G at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. Her compatriot Hütter, victorious the day before, found herself ejected into 4th position (+00”60).
Michelle Gisin (31), for her part, continues her momentum. 8th in Saturday’s event, the Grisonne finished again in the top 10 (tied for 9th with the Italian Elena Curtoni at 1”14).
As for the other Swiss, the Schwyz native Corinne Suter (30 years old) took 19th place (+1”63), not far ahead of the Bernese Joana Hählen (32 years old), 22nd (+1”95) and her sister cadet Jasmina Suter (29 years old), 25th (+2”17). Followed by the Nidwalden Delia Durrer (22 years old), 34th (+3”04), the Graubünden Stephanie Jenal (26 years old), 39th (+3”39), and the Obwaldenian Priska Ming-Nufer (32 years old), 41st (+3”79).
