Lara Gut-Behrami mocks Elena Curtoni and Federica Brignone

Soldeu, results

Lara Gut-Behrami secured victory in the last women’s super-G of the season at the World Cup Finals in Soldeu. The Ticino native, already the reigning Olympic champion in the specialty, secured victory with a time of 1’26″70, earning her fourth career super-G cup, following those achieved in 2014, 2016 and 2021. In the Andorran race, Gut-Behrami stamped her third seal of the season (second in the discipline after St. Anton), defeating a stunning Federica Brignone by just 22 hundredths.

The Carabiniere from Valle d’Aosta lost the decisive 3 tenths in the three curves of the very first part of the track, and then continued with the same times as the Swiss, in a battle that was resolved on the edge of the hundredths. For Brignone, it was podium number 56 in her career on the top circuit, with Italy’s women’s team thus rising to 26 podium finishes for the season (8 wins, 12 seconds and 6 third places), setting a new women’s record to improve on the one dating back to the 2016/17 season, when the Italian women’s team took 5 wins, 9 seconds and 11 third places.

The podium was closed by Norway’s Ragnhild Mowinckel, 47 hundredths behind, ahead of the two Swiss Corinne Suter (+0″55) and Michelle Gisin (+0″82), with Austria’s Cornelia Huetter in sixth place. At home in Italy, seventh position for Sofia Goggia: the champion from Bergamo had a solid race, losing a little something only in the upper part and preceding Marta Bassino, eighth, fresh champion of the World Cup in super-giant.

Elena Curtoni finished tenth: the Valtellina racer, after the blow suffered after her fall in the downhill, saw her victory in the specialty ranking fade away, finishing 1″23 behind the winner.

Gut-Behrami ends the superg season at 413, 45 points better than Federica Brignone in second; Mowinckel is in third place with 366, followed by Curtoni at 358.