St Moritz women’s super-G: Cornelia Huetter wins, Sofia Goggia third

Third race and third podium of the season for Sofia Goggia. After the fantastic weekend in Beaver Creek (second place in the downhill and victory in super-G) which marked her return to the track ten months after her injury, the champion from Bergamo finished in 3rd place super Mr of world cup St.Moritz. For Goggia it is podium number 57 of his cup career.

Vince Cornelia Huetter

The victory, the eighth of her career, went to the Austrian Cornelia Huetter who preceded the Swiss in 1’15”18 Lara Gut-Behrami (1’15”36), Goggia third in 1’15”51. Excellent performance by the blue team: fourth place for Elena Curtoni (1’15”60), quinta Federica Brignone (1’15”61), sixth Laura Pirovano (1’15”88), eleventh Marta Bassino (1’16”02), thirteenth Roberta Milesi (1’16”19).

The return of Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn, the 40-year-old American champion (82 cup successes) who returned to competitions almost six years after retiring, did not disappoint expectations. Vonn, who came out with bib number 31, finished the race in 14th place with a time of 1’16″36, 1″18 behind the winner.

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Goggia: “I live day by day”

Sofia, third and happy: “Three podiums in three races is absolutely not bad: clearly I know that compared to how I skied today there is a margin. But that’s okay, not all donuts always come out with a hole. I felt more tense than last week. It wasn’t easy to understand the snow conditions: here there is always an aggressive surface and I would need more time to adapt. After Beaver Creek I actually couldn’t ski anymore except in the race, apart from one lap in the open field. Today it was a very particular snow, it was tracked like a giant and staying just one meter more in the curve makes you slow down. Huetter was very fast everywhere, I was at times, in spurts: but after the injury I like to live day by day.”

The rankings

Goggia leads the Super-G Cup ranking with 160 points together with Gut-Behrami, third is Huetter with 150, fourth Brignone with 90. In the general first is the Swiss Camilla Rast (287 points), second Huetter (250), third the American Mikaela Shiffrin (245), fourth Goggia (240). The second super-G is scheduled for tomorrow starting at 11am.