In the women's super-G of the Sankt Moritz World Cup Cornelia Huetter invents another perfect race and confirms herself as the fittest woman of the moment by triumphing with an 18 hundredths advantage over Lara Gut and 33 over Sofia Goggia: these three girls are the same of the podium of the Beaver Creek descent with Goggia and Gut in reversed positions.
COMPLETE RESULT AND ANALYSIS OF THE RACE AND WORLD CUP RANKINGS
For the 32-year-old Austrian from Styria it is the eighth victory in the World Cup, the fifth in super-G. The number of podiums for these three champions: the total ones are 30 for Huetter, 93 for Gut and 57 for Goggia, those in super-G are 14 for Conny, 41 for Lara (as many as Renate Goetschl, second ever in this special ranking) and 16 for Sofia. For Gut today there are 200 placings in the top ten in the World Cup, 199 to be precise plus an ex-aequo ninth place in a parallel slalom: she is the third athlete to have reached this mark, she and Sofia lead the super-G ranking with 10 points on Conny.
Fantastic fourth Elena Curtoni on a track she loves, given that she won there in the downhill in 2022, but she also hurt herself last year and missed out on the rest of the season. The Italians are four in a row because behind Goggia and Curtoni there are Federica Brignone fifth and Laura Pirovano sixth, for the latter it is the best result in the Cup in the specialty.
Seventh ex-aequo for the increasingly convincing American Lauren Macuga and the Czech, underestimated by some, Ester Ledecka, ninth for the Austrian Mirjam Puchner, tenth for the Swiss Corinne Suter, who reappears among the top ten after the serious injury in Cortina d' Ampezzo. Lindsey Vonn, after almost six years of absence from racing, showed off a fabulous performance and was fourteenth.
So were the other Italians: Marta Bassino eleventh, Roberta Melesi thirteenth, Asja Zenere twenty-sixth in her first super-G in the World Cup, Sara Thaler forty-first, Nicol Delago forty-second, Vicky Bernardi out. Super G bis tomorrow, hopefully with splendid sunshine like today's. Below are the statements of the Italians taken from fisi.org.
Sofia Goggia: “This is always a Super-G to play with many bumps, blind spots, very rough terrain. We have to trust our line: for my part, I didn't ski very well today, I felt more tense than last week. It wasn't easy to understand the snow conditions: here there is always an aggressive surface and I would need more time to adapt. After Beaver Creek I actually couldn't ski anymore except in the race, apart from one lap in the open field. Today it was a very particular snow, it was tracked like a giant and staying just one meter more in the curve makes you slow down. Hütter was very fast everywhere, I was at times, in spurts: but after the injury I like to take it day by day. Three podiums in three races is absolutely not bad: clearly I know that compared to how I skied today there is a margin. But that's okay, not all donuts always come out with a hole. Lindsey Vonn called me after my descent to get some information on the track but with the 31 she found a slightly more marked track”.
Elena Curtoni: “I'm happy, the season started in a positive way, I just have to continue like this and believe in it, without being influenced by the thought of injuries, too many cents or anything similar. It was a good race, a good result which gives me confidence in view of the next stages.”
Federica Brignone: “I started with the right attitude, I had a clear idea of what to do but during the race I struggled a bit, I went under the post a couple of times to scratch and there I lost speed. It was a super-G in which you always had to stay in time, but in two places I couldn't do it. This makes me a little angry because they are errors of trust, I lack a bit of decision: on the one hand I'm convinced, on the other I can't find the right conviction. It's about putting all the pieces in place.”
Laura Pirovano: “I'm happy with today's race, I'm sixth behind a string of Italians who are all very good. Who knows if one day I'll be able to take that step forward to get on the podium, but I don't have to focus on that: today I'm satisfied with having improved compared to the first race of the season.”
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