Ester Ledecka adds World Cup win to Olympic title as Shiffrin sits out speed races

Ester Ledecka edged Corinne Suter for her first win in a ladies’s World Cup super-G on Sunday, practically three years after successful Olympic gold within the self-discipline.

The Czech skier completed three-hundredths forward of Suter, the World Cup super-G champion from Switzerland who received a downhill on the identical slope Friday.

“It’s a tremendous feeling. I’m very comfortable to offer myself this present for Christmas, it’s very good,” Ledecka stated.

Defending general champion Federica Brignone got here 0.35 behind in third, a day after sitting out the downhill following her crash in Friday’s race.

Brignone’s Italian teammate, Marta Bassino, was fourth, and general World Cup chief Petra Vlhova completed sixth.

After celebrating her largest successes in snowboarding, Ledecka surprised the world of Alpine snowboarding by scooping the Olympic super-G title in Pyeongchang in 2018.

Nonetheless, Ledecka failed to duplicate her achievement on the World Cup, getting solely two top-10 finishes in 20 super-G begins, though she had three podium leads to different disciplines, together with a downhill victory in Lake Louise, Alberta, a yr in the past.

“I went from Pyeongchang to right here, each single race gave me one thing. I used to be in a position to present it at this time,” Ledecka stated.

Nonetheless, it didn’t appear doubtless her fortunes would change in Sunday’s race.

“I used to be having a foul day from the beginning of the day. I didn’t get an excellent warmup and I didn’t really feel that the run was good. I felt that I had many errors.” Ledecka stated.

“Anyway, it’s a nice consequence. Ultimately the run wasn’t as unhealthy as I felt it was.”

Many racers had been sooner than Ledecka within the first part earlier than dropping about half a second within the center a part of the course.

Suter nonetheless led by eight hundredths on the last cut up time however she didn’t match Ledecka’s tempo on the underside part.

Ledecka retains competing on each World Cup circuits, and landed her first snowboard win of the season per week in the past at a parallel big slalom in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Coming off two third-place finishes in downhill the previous two days, Breezy Johnson was greater than three seconds off the lead in Sunday’s super-G and failed to gather any World Cup factors.

Nonetheless, her American teammate Keely Cashman scored her profession finest consequence, ending in tenth whereas sporting bib 35.

Mikaela Shiffrin sat out the velocity races within the French Alps and opted to coach her predominant occasions, slalom and GS. The three-time general champion was anticipated again in motion at technical races in Semmering, Austria on Dec. 28-29.