The weather remained the dominant theme at the ski race weekend in Kvitfjell. Gut-Behrami extends her lead in two classifications before the return of her competitor Shiffrin.
Takes 180 out of 200 possible points from the weekend: Lara Gut-Behrami.
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(sda) Lara Gut-Behrami can go into the remaining three race weekends of the season satisfied. She further extends her lead in the overall and Super-G World Cup. The Ticino woman comes second in the second Super-G in Kvitfjell within 24 hours – behind Federica Brignone, but well ahead of Cornelia Hütter.
Brignone, third in the discipline rankings and now second in the overall World Cup, was clearly the fastest in the race, which was interrupted several times due to fog and ended prematurely after 41 of 48 riders due to the onset of darkness. The now 25-time World Cup winner from Milan won 61 hundredths ahead of Gut-Behrami and 79 hundredths ahead of the Czech Ester Ledecka. Cornelia Hütter, Gut-Behrami’s first pursuer in the Super-G World Cup, did not get past 7th place, 1.27 seconds behind.
Two departures were originally planned in Kvitfjell. After the training couldn’t take place due to the weather, the two Super-Gs, which had been canceled a week ago, were held.
After the 15th podium finish in her 24th race of the season, Gut-Behrami goes into the last Super-G of the season on March 22nd in Saalbach with a 69-point lead over Hütter. Brignone also still has a small chance of winning the discipline, 74 points behind.
With six races to go, a lead of 326 points
In the overall World Cup, Gut-Behrami’s lead over her new first pursuer Brignone is 326 points. Mikaela Shiffrin, who wants to make her comeback in the technical races in Are next weekend, is 385 points behind. Gut-Behrami and Brignone will drive four of the six remaining races; It is still unclear which disciplines Shiffrin will start in.
As on Saturday, when Gut-Behrami triumphed ahead of Hütter and Mirjam Puchner and Delia Durrer was the best teammate of the eight-time season winner in 21st place, the other Swiss women did not make it to the top places in the absence of Corinne Suter, Jasmine Flury and Joana Hählen.
Some of them showed an upward trend: Michelle Gisin came in fourteenth, Jasmina Suter finished the race in 16th, Delia Durrer in 20th and Priska Nufer in 23rd. Jasmina Suter, Durrer and Nufer, like Gut-Behrami, Gisin and the injured Swiss trio, have qualified for the World Cup final.