Italian skier Federica Brignone wins Val d’Isere super-G race in World Cup season.

Italian skier Federica Brignone triumphed in Sunday’s super-G in Val d’Isere, celebrating her third victory of the ongoing World Cup season.

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In the French resort, she won with a lead of 44 hundredths ahead of the Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoffová Lie, another Italian downhiller Sofia Goggiová (+0.59) finished in third place.

Brignone coped best with the pitfalls of the challenging track. From the start, she went aggressively, choosing a bold line even in the technical corners, while constantly accelerating. She also slipped in the lower part and at the finish line she was 87 hundredths ahead of the previous leader, the Austrian Cornelia Hütterová. Finally, Goggiová and Lie got caught between them. Brignone achieved the 24th championship in her career in the SP, the ninth in the super giant slalom.

“It was almost a perfect ride. I really enjoy skiing at the moment, it’s my passion, I feel I still have something to show.” said the 33-year-old Italian woman, who already won two giant slaloms in Canada’s Mont Tremblant this winter, according to the APA agency.

Several favorites hesitated, the Swiss Lara Gutová-Behramiová and the New Zealander Alice Robinsonová dropped out after promising intermediate times in a difficult technical passage, the Italian Marta Bassinová and the SP leader Mikaela Shiffrinová did not finish the race either, as she missed one of the goals in the lower part.

The American leads the overall standings with only a 63-point advantage over Brignone. Jasmine Fluryová, the winner of Saturday’s race, also had big problems, the Swiss took eighth place.

Slovakia was not represented in the competition. Petra Vlhová missed the speed disciplines in St. Moritz and in Val d’Isere and will not return to the SP carousel until Thursday, when the evening slalom will be held in Courchevel, France.

results of the women’s super-G SP in Val d’Isere: 1. Federica Brignone (Italy) 1:21.58 min.
2. Kajsa Vickhoffová Lieová (Nor.) +0.44 s
3. Sofia Goggiová (Italy) +0.59
4. Cornelia Hütterová (Austria) +0.87
5. Michelle Gisinová (Switzerland) +1.32
6. Joana Hählenová (Switzerland) +1.71
7. Laura Pirovanová (Italy) +1.80
8. Jasmine Flury (Switzerland) +1.82
9. Kira Weidle +1.86
10. Emma Aicherová (both German) +1.91

overall order of the WC (after 11 out of 42 competitions): 1. Mikaela Shiffrinová (USA) 620 b.
2. Brignoneová 557
3. Lara Gutová-Behramiová (Switzerland) 429
4. Goggiová 396
5. Petra VLHOVÁ (SR) 391
6. Sara Hector (Sweden) 296

ranking in super-G (2 out of 10): 1. Goggiová 160
2. Brignoneová 145
3. Hütterová 130
4. Lieová 93
5. Gutová-Behramiová 60
6. Hählenová 60

news-item-description">In the 2023/24 World Cup in downhill skiing, Slovakia will be represented again by the Olympic slalom gold holder from Beijing 2022, Petra Vlhová, who is the strongest in slalom. In addition to the most winding discipline, she also plans to start in the giant slalom, she should include speed disciplines in her program only exceptionally.

2023-12-17 11:43:48
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