Italy's Brignone takes narrow super-G victory to extend overall World Cup lead

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 02, 2025 7:54 AM EST | Last Updated: March 2

Federica Brignone won an eventful women's World Cup super-G connected Sunday arsenic the Italian skier capped a three-race play that extended her pb successful the wide standings.

In a choky finish, Brignone was 0.06 seconds faster than defending wide champion Lara Gut-Behrami at the Kvitfjell skis edifice successful Ringebu, Norway.

"When I came down, I said: `No, no, no.' I had excessively galore mistakes. I thought it was makable [to be] better than me," Brignone said. "It was precise difficult. I had not a bully feeling, I had not a cleanable run. But nary 1 had. I tried a batch and risked a lot."

Brignone besides finished up of her Swiss rival by placing 5th and fourth, respectively, successful 2 downhills earlier successful the weekend.

"This is similar the cherry connected the cake. It's been an astonishing weekend. Today I'm a spot fortunate with the hundredths," Brignone said.

WATCH l Brignone edges Gut-Behrami for super-G victory:

Gut-Behrami seemed connected people for triumph but the Swiss prima came wide successful a crook and skied done brushed snowfall halfway down her run. Gut-Behrami dropped six-tenths down Brignone's divided clip but astir made up the shortage with a beardown finish.

"It happens each the clip this season. I'm skiing good but support making those mistakes," Gut-Behrami said.

Brignone's teammate Sofia Goggia was 0.09 down successful 3rd and Alice Robinson of New Zealand trailed by 0.22 successful fourth.

Lindsey Vonn finished 1.11 seconds disconnected the pb successful 16th aft what started arsenic a promising run.

The American standout was level with Brignone astatine her archetypal intermediate clip and conscionable 0.13 down the Italian halfway done her run.

Vonn past caught a bump successful a near crook and was thrown disconnected the contention enactment but managed to enactment connected the course.

Vonn, the grounds holder with 28 vocation super-G wins, made her comeback this play astatine the property of 40 with a caller titanium genu aft six years distant from racing.

Cassidy Gray of Invermere, B.C., and Valérie Grenier of St. Isidore, Ont., did not finish.

Overall standings

Brignone's 35th vocation World Cup triumph helped the Italian widen her pb implicit Gut-Behrami successful the wide standings to 251 points with 7 races left. A contention triumph is worthy 100 points.

However, the Swiss prima remained apical of the super-G standings, 55 points wide of Brignone.

Three super-G races are inactive scheduled, including 2 successful Italy successful 2 weeks' time.

"La Thuile is my home. All my friends volition beryllium there, it's lone 20 minutes from wherever I live," Brignone said. "Just trying to support the sped and the risk, this is the lone mode to spell to the extremity of the season."

Gut-Behrami refrained from looking astatine the cupful standings yet.

"If you commencement counting points now, you person already lost," she said.

On a crisp wide day, a hard people acceptable caused problems chiefly for the aboriginal starters, particularly successful the Tommy Moe turn, named aft the American 1994 Olympic downhill champion with Norwegian ancestry.

Three of the archetypal 4 racers skied out, including Emma Aicher, the German prodigy who earned her maiden World Cup triumph successful Saturday's downhill.

Lauren Macuga, the American racer who was runner-up to Aicher successful the downhill, finished 0.84 down Brignone successful 12th position.

Super-G satellite champion Stephanie Venier was 0.39 down successful eighth aft the Austrian sat retired the downhills the past 2 days to retrieve from illness.

The women's World Cup continues with 2 tech races successful Åre, Sweden adjacent week. Watch unrecorded sum connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. A unrecorded streaming docket is disposable here.

WATCH l Full replay of Sunday's super-G contention astatine Kvitfjell: