Lara Gut-Behrami is on the verge of another podium finish in a World Cup Super-G. In Kvitfjell, the skier from Ticino is in 2nd place behind the Italian Federica Brignone.
02.03.2025, 11:33
02.03.2025, 11:43
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Lara Gut-Behrami is on the verge of another podium finish in a World Cup Super-G. In Kvitfjell, the skier from Ticino is in 2nd place behind the Italian Federica Brignone.
It was close at the top of the intermediate rankings. Gut-Behrami missed out on her second World Cup win of the season by just six hundredths. Brignone's compatriot Sofia Goggia was three hundredths slower than the Swiss skier. World champion Stephanie Venier was only 39 hundredths behind in 8th place.
Gut-Behrami showed the reaction she had hoped for after finishing 12th and 8th in the two downhill races on the previous days - and maintained her consistency in the World Cup Super-G. In addition to the victory in Garmisch, she has three second places and one fifth place on her season's record. Her worst result was 8th place at the World Championships in Saalbach of all places.
Nevertheless, Gut-Behrami was not satisfied. Once again, she was annoyed by a mistake that cost her a lot of time and meant she missed out on victory. The mistake in the middle section left her around seven tenths of a second behind.
As things stand, Federica Brignone would win her eighth World Cup victory this winter and thus reduce the gap to the leading Gut-Behrami in the Super-G standings by 20 to 55 points. There are still three Super-Gs to go this winter.
Malorie Blanc is the second-best Swiss woman in the intermediate rankings. The young skier from Valais is in 13th place, just ahead of Corinne Suter. In contrast to Gut-Behrami, Blanc from Schwyz was unable to improve on her disappointing results in the two downhill races in Kvitfjell.
