The Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami won the super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy) on Sunday, where Romane Miradoli took 3rd place to offer her first podium of the winter to the French women’s alpine ski team. Gut-Behrami, 2022 Olympic champion in the specialty and winner of the 2015-16 World Cup, won her 41st World Cup victory, ahead of Austrian Stephanie Venier, 2nd at 21/100th, and Miradoli, 3rd at 41 /100th.
The skier from Flaine (Haute-Savoie) climbed onto the podium of a world circuit event for the fourth time in her career. Victim of a ruptured cruciate ligament in his left knee last March, Miradoli, 29, made his return to competition in December and had finished 10th the day before in the second descent of Cortina, in which his teammate Laura Gauché had placed. 4th.
The Italian Sofia Goggia, already victorious three times in Cortina, had to settle for 5th place, 58/100th behind Gut-Behrami. The Swiss, impeccable in the long curves of the “Olympia delle Tofane”, signed her fourth victory of the winter, the 21st of her career in a World Cup super-G. With this victory, after her 2nd and 5th places in the descents on Friday and Saturday, Gut-Behrami, 32, is the big winner of the Cortina stage which allowed her to take 2nd place in the general classification of the World Cup and come back to 195 points from Mikaela Shiffrin.
The American did not score any points in the Dolomites after her fall in the first descent on Friday where she suffered a minor injury to her left knee, which will also deprive her of the giant slalom at Kronplatz (Italy) Tuesday. The Cortina stage was marked by several serious injuries, synonymous with the end of the season, notably for the Swiss Corinne Sutter and Joana Hählen (torn anterior cruciate ligament).
On Sunday, Canadian Valérie Grenier and Swiss Stéphanie Jenal suffered heavy falls after making mistakes in the final section of the super-G.