With start number 24, the 26-year-old set a best time of 1:50.27 minutes, to which Ilka Stuhec from Slovenia and Corinne Suter from Switzerland came closest, just 0.94 seconds behind. The next Austrian, Christina Ager (4./+1.08), placed directly behind her.
Ortlieb is making her racing comeback in Canada after suffering severe knee injuries in January 2021. During a training fall in Crans-Montana, she tore an anterior cruciate ligament, inner ligament, lateral meniscus and patella in her right knee, missed the 2021 World Championships and this year’s Olympics and returned to Crans-Montana at the end of February, at least for the training sessions . Now she showed up big at the first scan 2022/23.
With Stephanie Venier from Tyrol (+1.44 seconds) and Ariane Rädler from Vorarlberg (+1.66) in sixth and eighth respectively, another ÖSV duo from the west of the country made it into the top ten. The Olympic Super-G “silver” Mirjam Puchner (15th / +2.08) from Salzburg and Styrian Tamara Tippler (16th / +2.09) were still a little in touch with the top ten. Elisabeth Reisinger (21st/+2.25), Cornelia Hütter (23rd/+2.74), Ramona Siebenhofer (24th/+2.89), Nicole Schmidhofer (28th/+3.10), Christine Scheyer (31st / +3.35) and Nadine Fest (33rd / +3.61) did not make it into the top 20.
The downhills in Lake Louise are scheduled for Friday (8:00 p.m. CET) and Saturday (8:30 p.m.), with a Super-G for Sunday (7:00 p.m.). A downhill double on the Matterhorn was canceled at the beginning of November due to the weather.
Source: Nachrichten
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