Worlds: Azzurre eighth in team combined. Shiffrin immediately gold

Worlds: Azzurre eighth in team combined. Shiffrin immediately d'gold

Mikaela Shiffrin s World Championships is off to a great start, as she teamed up with the already world downhill champion Breezy Johnson takes the gold medal in the new team combined, making her debut at this World Championships 2025, in Saalbach. It's the eighth gold medal at the World Championships for the very strong U.S. skier, who has returned to the track after injury.

Johnson&#rsquo;s excellent fourth time at the end of the downhill è was enough for the American super champion to launch her recovery to the final gold medal. In silver were Lara Gut-Behrami and Wendy Holdener, the latter the author of the best time in the slalom, which allowed the Swiss pair to climb a good ten positions. Bronze medal for Austrians Stephanie Venier and Katharina Truppe.

Eighth place for one of the two Italian pairs in the race, the one formed by Nadia Delago and Marta Rossetti: "I went down the slope to try to get a medal and this run I needed to have proof that I am skiing well. I è missed a bit’ the middle part, but the race è was fun and è a good launch to the slalom", said Rossetti.

Delago è said she was sorry: "I made some small mistakes, I think forò that Marta had the right turn for the slalom and did well. However, I am happy with my performance, considering where I was coming from". Fourteenth place for the Curtoni-Peterlini pair.