Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami won the second super-G at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in Austria on Sunday. Already 3rd in the first super-G in the Austrian resort on Friday and 6th in the descent on Saturday, she was the fastest on Sunday and won ahead of the Austrians Cornelia Huetter (2nd at 25 hundredths) and Mirjam Puchner (26 hundredths). At 32, the Olympic super-G champion with 356 World Cup starts scored her 40th success on the world circuit (the third of the winter) and her 81st podium.
“I attacked and that’s what I wanted to do,” she reacted after her round. “It’s great to feel like you’re skiing like that.” She also achieved her 20th success in super-G and her first of the winter in her favorite discipline, having won the first two giants of the season in Sölden and Killington. “I’m very comfortable on giant skis and I was trying to reproduce that with speed skis. I think the races here on this superb track helped me a lot,” she explained. Victorious in the first super-G on Friday – added to the program after the cancellation of that of St-Moritz in December – Cornelia Huetter confirms with her 2nd place her status as leader of the general classification of the specialty.
On the French side, Laura Gauché, part number 1, had a superb run to take 7th place, her best result of the winter after her 9th place on Saturday in downhill. Romane Miradoli also enters the top 10 (9th) while Camille Cerutti takes 22nd place ahead of Karen Clement (37th). The Women’s Ski World Cup continues on Tuesday in Flachau with a night slalom.
