Lara Gut-Behrami goes into the second run of the World Championship giant slalom in Saalbach with a chance of a medal. The skier from Ticino is in 4th place in her last World Championship race of her career.
13.02.2025, 10:40
13.02.2025, 10:50
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With a few too many drifts, Gut-Behrami did end up a long way behind the leader Federica Brignone, but other medal contenders such as Sara Hector (5th), Thea Louise Stjernesund (6th), Zrinka Ljutic (8th) and Lara Colturi (9th) fared the same. Camille Rast (13th), who finished on the giant slalom podium for the first time in the World Cup in Killington at the end of November, even lost more than three seconds.
Gut-Behrami's gap to Brignone is 1.40 seconds. However, she is only 16 hundredths of a second behind third-placed Paula Moltzan.
Brignone, the 2023 World Championship silver medallist who, like Gut-Behrami, could become the oldest female giant slalom world champion, created a comfortable cushion of 67 hundredths over New Zealand's Alice Robinson in the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin in the lead. Moltzan is already well over a second behind.
Wendy Holdener lost around three and a half seconds, Michelle Gisin another second more. Holdener is likely to be in the top 20 after the 108 racers in the first run, Gisin outside the top 30.
The second run starts at 1.15 pm.
