The Italian Sofia Goggia won the same day for the fourth time in her career in the downhill of Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy) including the American Lindsey Vonn, returning to the Alpine Ski World Cup at the age of 40 after six years of retirement, was provisionally twentieth.
Goggia outperformed the competition in ideal conditions, relegating the Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoff Lie to 42/100th and another Italian, Federica Brignone, to 55/100th.
Goggia, victim of a serious injury last winter (double tibia-malleolus fracture of the right leg), signed at 32 the 26th victory of his career, the second this winter after the super-G of Beaver Creek (United States). -United).
The Italian confirmed that the “Olimpia delle Tofane” which will host the women’s alpine skiing events of the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan Cortina in a year’s time, was her favorite track: she climbed onto the podium there for the eighth time in her career. career.
“There is nothing more beautiful for an Italian than winning in Cortina”Goggia said.
Vonn, who fell during the first training session on Thursday, also has good habits in the Dolomites resort with twelve successes, but the American multiplied the errors on Saturday, notably in the final part with a big mistake which made her lose a lot of speed.
-This twentieth place, provisional after the passage of 40 competitors, 1 sec 68/100th from Goggia, is his worst result since his return to competition, a return made possible by the installation of a titanium prosthesis on his right knee.
She finished fourteenth for the first race of her second career during the super-G in Saint-Moritz (Switzerland) at the end of December, then 6th in the downhill in Sankt Anton (Austria) and fourth the next day in super-G.
Thanks to her third place, her fifth podium of the winter, Brignone moved to the top of the general classification of the World Cup with 539 points, six points more than the Swiss Camille Rast who does not participate in the speed events on the world circuit.
Brignone also took the lead in the Downhill World Cup, ahead of Goggia.
The Cortina d’Ampezzo stage closes on Sunday with a super-G (11:00 a.m., GMT+1).
