Lara Gut-Behrami again surpassed the field at the World Cup Super-G on Monday and won the last race before the World Championships.
Repeated Saturday races on the same course in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Swiss skiers showed a clean run in challenging Kandahar, widening their lead every split time and then winning four straight wins in the field. Achieved.
Her 16th career win at Super-G put Gut-Behrami in third place with Germany’s Katja Seizinger. Only the great American Lindsey Vonn (28) and the Austrian skier Renate Gotchl (17) won more Super-G.
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Lara Gut-Behrami claimed to have won the third World Cup Alpine Super-G of the season at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Monday, crossing the line with a time of 1: 17.37. 2:05
World Cup leader Petra Vlhovre was the only racer to finish within seven-tenths of Gut Behrami’s time and was 0.28 seconds behind her first career podium at Super-G. ..
Austria’s Tamara Tippler was 0.74 behind in 3rd place, followed by Kaisa Wichoff Lee in 4th place. The Norwegian won her first podium when she finished second in the race on Saturday.
Switzerland’s Corinne Suter continued to take advantage of her slight chance of holding the title of the Super-G season, which she won last year, in fifth place.
Suter is 195 points below leader Gut Behrami, leaving only two events behind the world. Winning a race is worth 100 points.
The day after the team lost Sophia Gogja in the home world championship, defending overall champion Federica Brignone finished in 7th place, leading the Italian trio in the top 10.
Super-G World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin has raced in speed races in Germany to train for the world.
Schifflin hasn’t raced in speed races for over a year. She took a 10-month break from the race in 2020 and only resumed training at Super-G last week.
The race was postponed from Sunday due to fog.
Lara Gut-Behrami dominates the road to four consecutive victories