AUSTRIA:
Swiss veteran Lara Intestine-Behrami wrapped up a weekend trio of ladies’s World Cup pace occasions at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee when she grabbed victory in Sunday’s super-G.
It was the 32-year-old’s third profession super-G win on the Austrian resort.
“I used to be attacking and that is what I used to be searching for,” Intestine-Behrami stated. “It was what I needed from the highest to the end so it is a good feeling to ski like that.”
Austrian Cornelia Huetter, winner of Friday’s super-G, was second, 1 / 4 of a second behind on a course shortened due to excessive winds on the prime of the slope. She edged compatriot Mirjam Puchner, second in Saturday’s downhill, by one-hundredth of a second.
Sofia Goggia, winner of Saturday’s downhill, was eighth.
Intestine-Behrami, who additionally gained the Altenmarkt super-G in 2011 and 2022, took her 40th profession World Cup victory and third of the season.
“I have been racing nicely, and now I used to be attempting to translate that onto the pace skis and I feel nowadays right here on such a pleasant slope have helped me quite a bit,” she stated.
Huetter stated that after her victory within the super-G on Friday she didn’t sleep nicely and that was why she struggled in Saturday’s downhill.
“Yesterday it was a tough race as a result of I had not the very best feeling in my thoughts,” she admitted. “At this time I attempted to ski like on Friday. And it was actually good, it was attacking, a couple of errors however that is racing.”
Huetter leads Intestine-Behrami by 90 factors within the super-G standings with Italian Federica Brignone, who completed 12th on Sunday, three factors additional again.
Intestine-Behrami jumped to 3rd within the total standings on 749 factors, overtaking Slovak slalom specialist Petra Vlhova who didn’t race over the weekend. Brignone is second on 787.
US star Mikaela Shiffrin, with 929 factors, nonetheless holds a cushty lead within the total standings regardless of opting to overlook the weekend after struggling a chilly. By Sunday, she was on the hospital bedside of boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who dislocated a shoulder when he crashed in Wengen on Saturday.