By winning the last Super-G of the season, in Soldeu, Lara Gut-Behrami won the small globe of the discipline at the same time.
It was the only discipline where there was suspense among the girls before these World Cup finals in Soldeu. While all the globes had already been awarded even before the last week of the season, the Super-G was still looking for its queen for the 2022-23 season. They were still mathematically five to be able to dream of the small globe before this last race of the season, with an advantage to Marta Bassino, who was 19 points ahead of Lara Gut-Behrami. And it was the Swiss who lifted the trophy!
Starting with bib 10, under a bright sun and 6°C, Gut-Behrami signed a perfect race to dominate Federica Brignone and Ragnhild Mowinckel, who were also in the race for the small globe, by 22 and 47 hundredths respectively. Marta Bassino went a little through, finishing eighth at 1″15 from the winner. At almost 32 years old, Lara Gut-Behrami has therefore won the small Super-G globe for the fourth time in her career (after 2014, 2016 and 2021), at the end of a season in which she will have won three races (a giant and two Super-G). She finished 45 points ahead of Federica Brignone and 47 over Ragnhild Mowinckel.
Les Bleues at the gates of the Top 10
Note the 14th place of Mikaela Shiffrin during this Super-G of Soldeu. The record holder for the number of World Cup victories was a bit blunt. Two French women, part of the Top 25 in the discipline, took part in this last Super-G of the winter: Laura Gauché and Tessa Worley finished two hundredths apart, in eleventh and twelfth place.
WORLD CUP FINALS (W) / SOLDEU (ANDORRA)
Super-G Ranking – Thursday March 16, 2023
1- Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI) at 1’26″70
2- Federica Brignone (ITA) at 0″22
3- Ragnhild Mowinckel (NOR) à 0″47
4- Corinne Suter (SUI) at 0″55
5- Michelle Gisin (SUI) at 0″82
6- Cornelia Huetter (AUT) at 0″83
7- Sofia Goggia (ITA) at 1″03
8- Marta Bassino (ITA) at 1″15
9- Kajsa Vickhoff Lie (NOR) à 1″19
10- Elena Curtoni (ITA) at 1″23
11- Laura Gauché (FRA) at 1″32
12- Tessa Worley (FRA) at 1″34
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Abandons : Kira Weidle (ALL), Alice Robinson (NZL)
