Updated30. January 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Alpine skiing: A crown for Lara Gut-Behrami, giant at Kronplatz
In the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin, injured in a knee, the Ticino dances between the doors. At Kronplatz, the Swiss showed herself to be a giant by winning her 5th race of the winter, the 42nd of her career.
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Christian Maillard
Lara Gut-Behrami won a crown this Tuesday at Kronplatz and her 42nd race of her career.
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And 42 for Lara Gut Behrami, who never stops flying between the gates and hovering over the World Cup. Two days after her success in the super-G of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the 32-year-old Ticino, who is currently skiing with full confidence, on cloud nine, won the giant of Kronplatz this Tuesday for the first time in her career, she who finished 2nd in 2021 as well as last year in this region of Trentino.
After widening a gap of respectively 59 and 68 hundredths during the first course over her two pursuers, Alice Robinson and Sara Hector, the Swiss resident in Udine did not fail on the second course, to finally relegate the New Zealander and the Swedish at 1”09. On her perched art, she enjoys it.
In the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin, who injured her knee last week in Cortina, the “mouse” dances with her red leader’s bib between the gates of this discipline, which she adores, as was already the case. case this season in Sölden and Killington. Enough to consolidate her lead in the specialty ranking, 85 points ahead of the Italian Federica Brignone, only 6th and terribly disappointed.
95 points from Shiffrin
The Comano champion also performed well in the general classification, where she is 95 points behind Shiffrin (who should make her return in two weeks). Eight years after winning the big Crystal Globe, the Ticino woman can start dreaming of a new coronation, with 15 races remaining (including 5 super-G, 3 giants and 4 downhills).
In the favorite station of Jannik Sinner, the hero of the last Australian Open tennis tournament, Camille Rast finished in a magnificent 8th place, gaining ten places in the second round. The Valaisanne, already 4th in the slalom of Jasna and Kranjska Gora but also 6th in the slalom of Flachau and 9th in the giant of Jasna, confirms her current good form. After the cancellations of this weekend’s Garmisch events, she will have the opportunity to get closer to the podium on February 10 and 11 in Soldeu – in giant and slalom – where Lara Gut-Behrami is delighted to find Queen Shiffrin and continue flying between doors.