Goggia Wins Downhill, Breezy on Podium as Women’s World Cup in St. Anton Wraps with Super G Sunday

Reigning downhill Olympic champion Sofia Goggia took the highest of the rostrum in World Cup motion Saturday in St. Anton am Arlberg, and American Breezy Johnson found the podium ending third for the third time this season.

Sporting bib no. 5, the Italian velocity specialist Goggia set the tempo early with a 1:24:06 and skier after skier tried. Nonetheless, no person may come shut within the Tyrolian Alps’ storybook setting—suppose Disney’s Matterhorn meets the Sound of Music with an additional sprint of whimsey.

It was Goggia’s sixth profession downhill victory, and he or she is now main the World Cup downhill general this season.

“I used to be focussed on the issues I needed to do,” Goggia stated post-race. “I had only one technique, and that was to get out of the beginning gate and convey depth and power in my snowboarding, and I feel I made it. Now the purple bib is mine, yeah.”

Austrian Tamara Tippler, snowboarding on her house snow, got here in second, nearly a second behind Goggia at +0.96 off the tempo. The 29-year-old Austrian super-G specialist took her first-ever World Cup downhill podium whereas racing mere miles from the place she grew up.

And Jackson Gap native Breezy Johnson turned in an equally strong afternoon for her third-place end +1.04 behind Atomic teammate Goggia.

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— U.S. Ski & Snowboard Group (@usskiteam) January 9, 2021

General World Cup chief Petra Vlhová completed twelfth within the first velocity race of 2021. American Mikaela Shiffrin, who introduced New Yr’s Day she’d be taking velocity races off in January and possibly past, remained stateside, persevering with getting again into 2018 kind after taking most of 2020 off to get well from an damage and the sudden passing of her father.

Minus Shiffrin Girls’s Second Tremendous-G of Season Large Open

On Sunday, the motion within the tiny village, recognized in non-COVID occasions for apes ski ragers going lengthy into the evening (suppose numerous dancing in ski boots on picnic tables to techno), goes to spherical out with a super-G. Under, a couple of racers to look at.

Ester Ledecká (+700 at Bwin) gained the opening super-G occasion of this World Cup season at Val d’Isère last Dec. 20. The Czech multi-sport (snowboarding and alpine snowboarding) athlete’s first World Cup victory within the super-G. Now she has an opportunity to affix Lindsay Vonn, Lara Intestine-Behrami, and Mikaela Shiffrin as one in every of 4 girls to win the opening pair super-G occasions in a season.

Coming into St. Anton, Federica Brignone (+800) has 15 World Cup victories, one shy of tying the file for many wins by an Italian girl held by Deborah Compagnoni. Brignone likes Austrian snow, with three wins there in her profession, the newest being at Kleinkirchheim on Jan. 13, 2018. Brignone has completed on the rostrum in three of her final 4 super-G occasions, together with a third-place end on the opener in Val d’Isère.

Swiss Duo Might go One-Two Sunday

Swiss veteran Lara Intestine-Behrami (+1200) has gained a dozen World Cup occasions within the super-G, tied for fourth with Carole Merle amongst girls on the all-time listing. The final time Intestine-Behrami Womacks gained a super-G in Austria was at Altenmarkt/Zauchensee a decade in the past on Jan. 9, 2011. Coming into Sunday, Intestine-Behrami’s 26 World Cup victories throughout all disciplines depart her tied with Swiss alpine ski legend Michela Figini for third place amongst Swiss girls.

And by no means rely out Intestine-Behrami’s Swiss teammate Corinne Suter (+600) who has completed within the prime six in every of the final seven World Cup super-G occasions. She’s additionally snowboarding quick this season, coming off a second-place end in Val d’Isère. It could possibly be Intestine-Behrami and Suter one-two on the rostrum.

By no means rely out Vlhová (+1600), who has amassed 40 World Cup podiums in all disciplines, however none of them got here within the super-G. Although her finest end result within the self-discipline is a fourth place in La Thuile final February, the Slovakian celebrity has been snowboarding so quick and so technically sound to this point this season; she by no means appears out of the hunt.

Girls’s World Cup super-G St. Anton Austria Jan 10, 2021