Skiing, the podium is also colored blue at the last women’s race: Nicol Delago takes care of it
The women’s World Cup season
is over.
The 2023/24 Women’s Alpine Skiing World Cup season è ended on Saturday in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria), with the downhill won by Cornelia Huetter, an Austrian athlete who, thanks to the colorless performance of the overall CdM champion, Lara Gut-Behrami (only 17th), won the specialty trophy.
The race also smiled on Slovenian Ilka Stuhec, second at the finish line just 17 hundredths behind the winner, and on Italy's Nicol Delago, who carries the Italian flag on the podium (number twenty-three; of the women's season for the Bel Paese) by finishing third, with a time 49 hundredths faster than Huetter.
Completing the day's top 10 are Austria's Christina Ager, Stephanie Venier and Mirjam Puchner, fourth, fifth and sixth respectively, Switzerland's Michelle Gisin, seventh, Germany's Keira Weidle, eighth, the second of the Italian nationals Federica Brignone, ninth at the finish line, and the other athlete today's home athlete Ariane Raedler, 10th. As for the other azzurre, Laura Pirovano finished 12th, Marta Bassino did not è instead, she did not go beyond 18th position.
In the overall standings Lara Gut-Behrami ends a dominating season with 1,716 points, Federica Brignone è second at 1,581, while Mikaela Shiffrin finishes third overall with 1,409 points. The specialty cups were won by Cornelia Huetter (downhill), Mikaela Shiffrin (special slalom) and Lara Gut-Behrami (giant slalom and Super-G).
