Gut-Behrami Wins Downhill To Extend Lead Over Shiffrin In World Cup Overall Standings – News18

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland: Fresh from overtaking the absent Mikaela Shiffrin within the girls’s World Cup total standings, Lara Gut-Behrami received a shortened downhill on Friday to shut in on the injured Sofia Goggia within the self-discipline standings.

Gut-Behrami, who’s on a 4-race successful streak, was 0.21 seconds quicker than Swiss teammate Jasmine Flury on the Mont Lachaux course — a lot to the delight of the house followers — for her first downhill victory in additional than two years.

Austrian skier Cornelia Huetter was additionally second, with the identical time as Flury.

“I think today the difference was about the attitude,” Gut-Behrami stated. “I made a few mistakes, sometimes my ski wasn’t catching. So I would say it was a fight to stay on my skis and try to be fast.”

It was the primary downhill race since self-discipline specialist Goggia had her season ended prematurely after breaking two bones in her proper leg in a coaching crash.

Gut-Behrami moved 41 factors behind Goggia, who has topped the World Cup downhill standings in every of the previous three seasons.

There are three extra downhill races this season, together with one in Crans-Montana on Saturday. A race win is price 100 factors. There can also be a Super-G in Crans-Montana on Sunday.

The 32-yr-outdated Gut-Behrami overtook Shiffrin on high of the general standings with an enormous slalom victory final weekend. She prolonged her result in 105 factors on Friday, with Shiffrin nonetheless out nursing a left knee harm.

Gut-Behrami additionally leads the standings in Super-G and large slalom, placing her on the right track to match Shiffrin’s spectacular feat of claiming 4 crystal globes in 2019.

Many high skiers have been concerned in severe crashes these days and suffered season-ending accidents, together with Petra Vlhova, Valerie Grenier and Corinne Suter, and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Alexis Pinturault and Marco Schwarz on the boys’s circuit.

Gut-Behrami is after her second total title, eight years after she received her first. That would tie a document with Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who received her first in 1971 and her sixth in 1979 and is the one different girls’s skier to win eight years aside.

Shiffrin can win her sixth.

Lightning fast on the high, Gut-Behrami misplaced a variety of time on the flatter, center part of the course however a surprising end gave her a primary downhill victory since Jan. 15, 2022, in Austria.

Because of the nice and cozy temperatures and the smooth snow situations on the arrival, the race was shortened and the end line moved up 5 gates. The resort and slope is south-going through so soaks up the solar.

“It was not an easy run,” Gut-Behrami stated. “The snow it is pretty soft so everything gets more challenging. I have to say I didn’t have a great feeling, I just tried to push hard.”

After crossing the raised arrival line, nevertheless, skiers continued right down to the unique end arch in entrance of the followers. That was the identical Crans-Montana end line the place the timing on the snow malfunctioned 5 years in the past and the consequence was amended days later, with Gut-Behrami promoted onto the rostrum.

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