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In Andorra, the 32-year-old Slovenian celebrated her second downhill victory of the season in spring-like conditions on Wednesday. Sofia Goggia (+0.51 sec.) finished second, the Italian had already secured the small crystal globe for the downhill World Cup ahead of time. Lara Gut-Behrami was third (+0.81), Mirjam Puchner fifth as the best ÖSV runner. Puchner, who was recently ill, was only 20 hundredths of a second off the podium after a serious mistake. “I was brutally annoyed,” said the 2019 Soldeu winner on ORF. In the Downhill World Cup, Puchner was also the best Austrian in fifth place. Nina Ortlieb, the fastest in the final practice session, fell on the way to a good interim placement. “I was looking for the risk, it certainly wasn’t all wrong. The anger is big, I can feel my body and ankle too,” said the Super-G winner from Kvitfjell.
The remaining Austrians did not make it into the World Cup points for the top 15. Cornelia Hütter (+2.22) had to settle for 19th place, directly behind Stephanie Venier (+2.72) and Christina Ager (+2.83). ). Ramona Siebenhofer decided not to compete because of back pain. Tamara Tippler, meanwhile, becomes a mother and ended the season prematurely. Overall World Cup winner Mikaela Shiffrin also skipped the descent.
In contrast to the Super-G with two victories by Hütter and Ortlieb, the Austrians did not make it to the top floor in the downhill this World Cup winter. On Thursday, the season finale in Andorra continues with the Super-G (10 a.m. / live ORF 1), Hütter still has every chance of the small ball in third place with 306 points. Her competitors are the Italian Elena Curtoni (332), Gut-Behrami (313) from Switzerland, the Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel (306) and Federica Brignone (288) from Italy.
Source: Nachrichten
