SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami won the women’s World Cup super-G on Thursday and Mikaela Shiffrin finished 14th in her first race since setting the record for most career victories with 87.
Gut-Behrami had a near-flawless run on the Aliga course to win the last super-G of the season and overtake Italian rival Elena Curtoni in the standings. Curtoni finished 1.23 seconds behind in 10th, a day after she crashed in the downhill on the same hill.
“It’s been a rollercoaster this season and I’m happy today,” Gut-Behrami said. “I just wanted to ski to don’t have regrets. Sometimes that’s the best way, just stop thinking. I didn’t focus on the lines and just tried to be fast.”
Curtoni said her crash in the downhill didn’t affect her performance on Thursday.
“I’m a little bit sore but that’s not an excuse, for sure,” said the Italian, who was the super-G junior world champion in 2011. “I know I can do good, I was showing it the whole season. I will keep on working.”
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Federica Brignone finished 0.22 seconds behind in second place and Ragnhild Mowinckel was 0.47 back in third. Both needed to finish ahead of Gut-Behrami to maintain their chance of winning the super-G title.
Shiffrin has locked up the overall, giant slalom and slalom titles before the last races in her strongest events. The final slalom is on Saturday and the giant slalom is Sunday.
The American surpassed Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark on the all-time winners list with het 87th career victory last Saturday.
“This last week it’s just been a lot of media, and a lot of talking about what I have achieved, like kind of past tense,” Shiffrin said. “In my own mind, I think about basically where I am now, how I want to ski, and the possibility for motivation in the future.”
Gut-Behrami won the season-long super-G title for the fourth time. She also won Olympic gold in the event in 2022 and the world title in 2021, and was the overall World Cup champion in 2016.
After her triumph in St. Anton two months ago, Gut-Behrami became the only skier this season with multiple super-G victories.
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