Cornelia Hütter wins in St. Moritz: Sofia Goggia on podium, Lindsey Vonn surprises everyone

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Cornelia Hütter wins in St. Moritz

It's Austria's Cornelia Hütter who won the Super-G staged Saturdaya  St. Moritz. Mortiz, Switzerland, one of the classifc seasonal events of the Alpine Skiing World Cup: the 1992-born athlete completed the course in 1 minute, 15 seconds and 18 hundredths, finishing ahead of Lara Gut-Behrami (+0.18) and Italy's Sofia Goggia (+0.33), who thus closes the day&#39s podium.

More than discreet was the test of the blue patrol: behind the Bergamasque, from fourth to sixth place, there are in fact Elena Curtoni (+0.42), Federica Brignone (+0.43) and Laura Pirovano (+0.70), while Marta Bassino è eleventh at 84 hundredths from the winner and Roberta Melesi è thirteenth, with a delay of 1.01.

Decidedly positive was the performance of Lindsey Vonn, who recently returned to racing after her temporary retirement from the scene. In fact, the American champion finished today’s super-giant in fourteenth place, one second and 18 hundredths behind Hütter, thus confirming her very rapid readjustment to top-level races.

The weekend of the Women’s Ski World Cup will continue on Sunday, December 22, again in the Engadine resort’s ski area, with another round of Super-G: it will be the third seasonal round of the discipline, which in addition to Hütter’s success today recorded Sofia Goggia’s victory in Beaver Creek last Sunday.

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