Lara Gut-Behrami resumed her victorious march. The Ticino won the first super-G in Kvitfjell to collect her 45th World Cup success, the 8th of the season and the 5th in her last 7 races.
Victorious in 4 consecutive events before being beaten in the 2nd descent (3rd) and in the super-G of Crans-Montana (6th), Lara Gut-Behrami won with a 0”12 lead over Cornelia Hütter (2nd) and 0”13 on Mirjam Puchner (3rd). She made the difference at the bottom of the course, gaining 0”27 from Hütter in the last 18 seconds of the race.
Lara Gut-Behrami achieved an excellent accounting operation by achieving her 22nd victory in a World Cup super-G. She increased her lead over Mikaela Shiffrin to 305 points in the general classification and will enter the penultimate super-G of the winter on Sunday with a margin of 25 units over Cornelia Hütter, as well as 94 over Federica Brignone in the discipline rankings. .
The Gut-Behrami/Shiffrin distance duel continues
The Ticino, who is aiming for a historic fifth crown in super-G, must take advantage of this weekend to take off in the race for the big Globe before the return of Mikaela Shiffrin in a week in Are. She will only have 4 races left on her menu this winter, compared to 6 for the American who hopes to fill up during the last 2 slaloms in Are and Saalbach.
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