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The Swiss won on Saturday in Norway, just ahead of Cornelia Hütter (+0.12 seconds) and Mirjam Puchner (+0.13). In the Super-G World Cup, Gut-Behrami extended her lead over Hütter to 25 points with two races to go.
The Austrians had already come very close to the World Cup leader with strong part-time performances. Like Hütter and Puchner, Christina Ager, Stephanie Venier and Ariane Rädler were still ahead of Gut-Behrami after the upper part. While Crans-Montana winner Venier ended up in eleventh place, 1.25 seconds behind Ager (+1.19 seconds) after a mistake in the middle section, Rädler was eliminated shortly after the second split after a mistake.
Mistakes cost us victory
Hütter showed a strong race in light fog and soft slopes due to the plus-degree slope, but a small mistake in the lower section cost the Styrian her possible second win of the season. She finished in the top two for the fourth time in the seventh race in the Super-G. “I think you have to be happy about that, that’s not a given,” said Hütter on ORF television. “You always want to score 100 points. But I still think it’s cool that I can hold my own and show what I’m capable of.”
Puchner was clearly ahead at times, but lost time in the second half of the route. The Salzburg native finished third for the third time this season. “Once again I couldn’t get a good lead down,” said Puchner. But she was “brutally happy” at the finish. Venier, on the other hand, had to accept disappointment as she is now clearly behind in the Super-G World Cup. In the middle section the Tyrolean lost almost a second.
Fourth place was shared by the German Kira Weidle and the Czech Ester Ledecka (+0.24), otherwise only the Italian Federica Brignone in sixth (+0.31) largely kept up with Gut-Behrami. Nadine Fest finished 22nd after a good split time, Ricarda Haaser, like Christine Scheyer and Sabrina Maier, didn’t see the finish. Franziska Gritsch didn’t have a flawless run with start number one and ended up in 30th place behind her teammates Lena Wechner (27th) and Michaela Heider (28th).
305 points ahead of Shiffrin
In the overall World Cup, Gut-Behrami is now 305 points ahead of US star Mikaela Shiffrin, who wants to return to the World Cup after her injury next weekend at the technical races in Aare. For the 32-year-old it was the 45th World Cup victory, the 22nd in the Super-G. Gut-Behrami has already won eight races this season, including the Super-G in Zauchensee and Cortina. In Kvitfjell, the Olympic champion could do another Super-G on Sunday (11 a.m./live ORF 1).
A departure was actually planned for Saturday. Because persistent snowfall and fog made the two downhill training sessions on Thursday and Friday impossible, it was decided to hold a second Super-G instead. There is only one downhill run left on the program at the World Cup finals in Hinterglemm. This could also be a decision between Gut-Behrami and Hütter for the Super-G ball.
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