Lara Gut-Behrami celebrates her first win of the season in the super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The Ticino native wins ahead of Norway's Kajsa Lie and the Italians Federica Brignone, Sofia Goggia and Laura Pirovano.
Gut-Behrami was 35 hundredths faster than Lie on the slope, which was softened by rain and wet snow. Brignone and Goggia missed out on the second Italian double victory within 24 hours by 38 and 49 hundredths respectively.
For Gut-Behrami it is her first victory this winter after four 2nd and one 3rd place and her 46th overall in the World Cup. The 33-year-old thus reduced the gap in the overall World Cup to the leader Brignone to 70 points. In the discipline rankings, Gut-Behrami extended her lead over Brignone to 75 points in the fifth of eight races.
Fifth attempt in Garmisch
Gut-Behrami won the super-G in Garmisch, Bavaria, for the fifth time - twice more than Lindsey Vonn. The American, who returned to the World Cup at the age of 40, lost 1.40 seconds to the Swiss on Saturday on the Kandahar, where she has triumphed eight times including the downhill. In thirteenth place, she finished in the top 15 for the fourth time in the seventh race since her comeback.
Two tenths behind Vonn was Corinne Suter (14th). The racer from Schwyz, who has got back into her stride in recent weeks, approached the race too cautiously after finishing third in the downhill the day before and third in the super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo to be among the front runners again.
The 24-year-old Janine Schmitt achieved her best result in the World Cup in seventeenth place. Michelle Gisin and Joana Hählen missed a gate, Priska Ming-Nufer (31st) and Delia Durrer (36th) lost almost three seconds or more on the best time.
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