Italy's Brignone wins World Cup super-G with gutsy run

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jan 16, 2022 8:25 AM EST | Last Updated: January 16, 2022

Italian skier Federica Brignone saw a gutsy tally rewarded with the triumph Sunday successful the 5th women's World Cup super-G of the season.

Racing successful perfect, sunny conditions, Brignone won astir three-tenths of a 2nd connected her rivals with an attacking and risky attack successful the mediate portion of the Zauchensee, Austria course.

While galore racers posted faster times astatine the archetypal split, nary 1 matched Brignone's gait successful the turning steep section.

Corinne Suter came closest with a beardown decorativeness to adjacent the spread to Brignone to 0.04 seconds. It was the champion effect of the play for the downhill satellite champion from Switzerland.

Ariane Raedler was 0.17 down successful 3rd for the Austrian's archetypal vocation podium result.

Marie-Michele Gagnon (+1.89) finished 34th, portion teammate Candace Crawford (+2.81 )was 42nd.

"For me, it's important. It's an emotion. I person won earlier successful my vocation but it's ever nice," said Brignone, who was the wide champion 2 seasons ago.

"It was not truthful easy, we are each truthful close," she added, referring to the apical 20 finishing wrong 1.04 seconds of her winning time.

The effect marked Brignone's Italian grounds extending 18th vocation win, and sixth successful a super-G. It's the archetypal clip Brignone has won aggregate super-G races successful 1 season.

Italian teammate Sofia Goggia, who had a nasty clang successful Saturday's downhill connected the aforesaid slope, started contempt complaining astir being sore.

"My full assemblage hurts. But skiing is amended than going for a walk," she said earlier the race, successful which she avoided hazard taking and finished 0.92 down teammate Brignone successful 19th.

Goggia besides has 2 super-G wins this season, and the 2 Italians are intelligibly up successful the super-G play standings, with Goggia starring Brignone by conscionable 5 points with 4 races left.

"We person a beardown velocity team. We each travel from the elephantine slalom, truthful we marque bully turns and super-G is simply a bully mix," Brignone said.

Olympic champion Ester Ledecka was six-tenths disconnected the pb successful ninth, conscionable up of super-G satellite champion Lara Gut-Behrami, a time aft the Swiss standout had won the downhill. Gut-Behrami is the lone super-G victor different than Brignone and Goggia this season.

Defending wide champion Petra Vlhova finished 18th and added 13 points to her tally.

The Slovakian trails person Mikaela Shiffrin by 37 points successful the wide standings. The American opted not to contention this play and absorption connected training.

Shiffrin's teammate Breezy Johnson besides sat retired the races successful Austria aft hurting her genu successful a grooming crash. It near Keely Cashman arsenic the champion finisher connected the U.S. skis squad successful 23rd, her champion effect of the season.

The women's World Cup returns to the Italian venue of past year's satellite championships, Cortina d'Ampezzo, for different downhill and super-G adjacent weekend.