Cornelia Hütter takes her seventh World Cup victory in Beaver Creek. The Austrian won the first downhill of the season with a lead of 16 hundredths over Italy's Sofia Goggia. The best Swiss skier was Lara Gut-Behrami in third place.
Last winter's overall World Cup winner from Ticino lost 0.34 seconds to Hütter, last season's discipline winner in the downhill. Gut-Behrami had not yet performed to her liking this season. She had to withdraw from the giant slalom in Sölden at short notice and in Killington she only finished in 13th place.
Gut-Behrami was 0.34 seconds short of victory
But on the "Birds of Prey", where the men also raced a week ago and the Swiss downhill racers celebrated a double victory with Justin Murisier ahead of Marco Odermatt, the 33-year-old from Ticino had announced her ambitions for a top ranking with training places 2, 1 and 4.
Gut-Behrami lost 0.34 seconds to the one year younger Styrian Hütter, who had snatched the small crystal globe for the discipline victory in the downhill at the World Cup final in Saalbach last season.
Goggia on the comeback with a full attack
Goggia had suffered a fracture to her tibia and tibial malleolus in a training crash at the beginning of February 2024. A good ten months later, she was already back on the attack in her comeback, with some extreme turns. The Italian missed out on her 25th World Cup victory by just 16 hundredths.
Michelle Gisin (8th) was another Swiss racer in the top 10. Priska Ming-Nufer finished 14th, Jasmina Suter 16th, Corinne Suter 21st and Delia Durrer 30th. Stephanie Jenal missed out on the points in 32nd place and Joana Hählen was eliminated.
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