Swiss ski celebrity Lara Gut-Behrami won the last ladies’s World Cup super-G prior to the globe champions for her very first triumph of the period, while Lindsey Vonn put 13th on Sunday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Gut-Behrami understood the complicated kip down the center component of the Kandahar training course to gain job winNo 46, which placed her in signed up with 5th put on the all-time women champions checklist.
“It’s nice. I was skiing well since a while, still missing something, so it’s great to be able to win again,” the protecting general champ stated.
The globe champions happen in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria onFeb 4-16.
Gut-Behrami was 0.35 secs quicker than Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway, while Federica Brignone was three-hundredths additionally back in 3rd, a day after the Italian won the downhill on the very same hillside.
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Sofia Goggia, that was runner-up to Brignone in Saturday’s race, put 4th, in advance of colleagues Laura Pirovano and Marta Bassino, as the Italian group do with 4 racers in the leading 6.
Keely Cashman shared 6th area with Bassino for the American’s career-best outcome.
Vonn completed 1.4 secs off the rate in 13th after she had actually fallen short to complete her previous 2 races. The American standout skied out of Saturday’s downhill when she missed out on an entrance, however prevented dropping.
Vonn went back to ski auto racing in December after virtually 6 years of retired life with a brand-new titanium knee.
Last week, Vonn informed The Associated Press that she prepares to retire once again after following year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics
Last year, Gut-Behrami surpassed leader Mikaela Shiffrin in the general standings in the last 2 months of the period when the American was out taking care of a knee injury.
The Swiss skier after that had a sluggish beginning to the brand-new project after missing out on the season-opening race inOctober However, the protecting general champ after that acquired 3 2nd locations in Super- G prior to winning Sunday.
“It’s been a weird start of the season, obviously I was struggling a little bit,” Gut-Behrami stated. “I had to find the confidence back, the way to push in the skis again.”
Gut-Behrami has actually currently won at the very least one World Cup race in 11 of the previous 12 periods, with 2018-19 the only exemption.
The beginning of Sunday’s race was postponed for 15 mins as coordinators required even more time to prepare the training course after over night snowfall and rainfall in the hours leading up to the race.
Ariane Raedler had an unpleasant tumble when she came off the training course and stumbled over a spot of softer snow, however the Austrian stood up promptly and showed up to have actually prevented injury.
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