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Riding high: Suter wins downhill for her 1st gold at worlds
Read full article: Riding high: Suter wins downhill for her 1st gold at worldsSwitzerland's Corinne Suter holds the gold medal on the podium after the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. Goggia had won the last four downhills on the World Cup circuit, after Suter had triumphed in the first race of the downhill season in France in December. Suter believed her second place in the worlds opener helped her believe she could win gold in downhill two days later. She also won gold in both speed events at the junior worlds seven years ago. Gut-Behrami seemed on course for her second gold medal in two days when she led Suter by more than three-tenths for most of her run.
The Latest: Suter says silver medal helped win downhill gold
Read full article: The Latest: Suter says silver medal helped win downhill goldSwitzerland's Corinne Suter celebrates on the podium after she won the gold medal in the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. ___12:10 p.m.Corinne Suter won the women's downhill at the world championships to give Switzerland its second gold medal. AdGerman skier Kira Weidle finished 0.20 behind for silver and Lara Gut-Behrami was 0.37 back in third. Gut-Behrami won gold and Suter silver in Thursday's super-G.American racer Breezy Johnson came nine-tenths off the lead in ninth. ___9:45 a.m.Italian skier Francesca Marsaglia is set to open the womenโs downhill at the world championships at 11 a.m. local time.
Gut-Behrami wins elusive gold in worlds opener, Shiffrin 3rd
Read full article: Gut-Behrami wins elusive gold in worlds opener, Shiffrin 3rdThe 2016 overall World Cup champion beat Swiss teammate Corinne Suter by 0.34 seconds, living up to her billing as the main favorite after winning the last four super-Gs on the World Cup circuit. AdโItโs a disappointment not to win gold. Even when I made a mistake, I still felt good about my skiing,โ Shiffrin said. Petra Vlhova, the overall World Cup leader from Slovakia, finished ninth, nearly two weeks after gaining her first career super-G podium. โThe worst thing today was the silence,โ said Brignone, who is the defending overall World Cup champion.
Gut-Behrami's veteran skills win tricky World Cup super-G
Read full article: Gut-Behrami's veteran skills win tricky World Cup super-GSwitzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami smiles at the end of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G in St. Anton, Austria, Sunday, Jan.10, 2021. All rights reservedST. ANTON โ It took the veteran skills of Lara Gut-Behrami to win a tricky World Cup super-G on Sunday. World Cup super-G champion Corinne Suter was third, trailing her Switzerland teammate by 0.20. Gut-Behramiโs 13th win in World Cup super-G came more than 12 years after her debut victory in a discipline that demands speed and technical ability to improvise. Now 29, the 2016 World Cup overall champion won both of her career season-long discipline titles in super-G.Gut-Behrami was set to rise to fifth in the overall standings, ahead of three-time champion Mikaela Shiffrin.
Ledecka edges Suter to add World Cup win to Olympic title
Read full article: Ledecka edges Suter to add World Cup win to Olympic titleCzech Republic's Ester Ledecka speeds down the course during an alpine ski women's World Cup Super G in Val d'Isere, France, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)VAL D'ISERE โ VAL D'Ester Ledecka edged Corinne Suter for her first win in a womenโs World Cup super-G on Sunday, nearly three years after winning Olympic gold in the discipline. The Czech skier finished three hundredths ahead of Suter, the World Cup super-G champion from Switzerland who won a downhill on the same slope Friday. Brignoneโs Italian teammate, Marta Bassino, was fourth, and overall World Cup leader Petra Vlhova finished sixth. The three-time overall champion was expected back in action at technical races in Semmering, Austria on Dec. 28-29.
Suter wins season's 1st downhill, Schmidhofer hurt in crash
Read full article: Suter wins season's 1st downhill, Schmidhofer hurt in crashSwitzerland's Corinne Suter crosses the finish line during an alpine ski, women's World Cup Downhill, in Val d'Isere, France, Friday, Dec.18, 2020. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)VAL D'ISERE โ VAL D'Corinne Suter won the first women's World Cup downhill of the season and Nicole Schmidhofer was injured in a high-speed crash that sent her through the safety fencing on Friday. The Austrian ski federation said Schmidhofer likely ruptured the ligaments in her left knee and was taken to a clinic in Innsbruck for further examination. Schmidhofer, the 2018-19 downhill champion and 2017 super-G world champion, was one of four skiers to get in trouble on the course, where visibility was a problem because of alternating shadow and sunny spots. Last season, Suter became the first skier to win the downhill and super-G titles in the same season since American great Lindsey Vonn in 2015-16.