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Lara Gut-Behrami claims first win of season with Super-G success, Mikaela Shiffrin finishes third
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Published 11/12/2021 at 12:37 GMT
Sofia Goggia won the Super-G last weekend to seal a hat-trick of successes in Lake Louise, but had to settle for second behind Swiss world champion Lara Gut-Behrami in St. Moritz. It represented Gut-Behrami’s 17th Super-G World Cup win and her first since Garmisch Partenkirchen in February 2021. Mikaela Shiffrin continued to find her form in the speed disciplines as she took third.
Watch top 3 runs as sensational Gut-Behrami takes St. Moritz gold
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Swiss world champion Lara Gut-Behrami won the Super-G in St. Moritz - 13 years after she claimed her first win at the Swiss resort - stopping the clock in a time of 1:19.82.
It was her 33rd World Cup victory of her career, her third in St. Moritz and her first of the season following second-placed finishes in the GS in Soelden and the Super-G in Lake Louise.
Sofia Goggia, who claimed a hat-trick of successes in Lake Louise last weekend, was 0.18s in arrears to secure a fourth podium of the World Cup season. The result means the Italian has collected 380 points out of the last 400 on offer.
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On her 200th World Cup start, Shiffrin placed on the podium for a 111th time as she took third, a further second back from Goggia.
“I am happy I was able to ski the way I wanted,” said Gut-Behrami after the race.
“If you look at the podium today, we have three different racers,” added Gut-Behrami. “We have a racer like Mikaela [Shiffrin] who skis perfectly with a really clean technique and Sofia [Goggia] is known to risk everything and now she is skiing much more safely.
"In skiing there is not a rule of how you have to ski but just to be as fast as you can."
The victory for Gut-Behrami means she now goes level with Goggia on 180 points at the top of the Super-G standings after two rounds of the event.
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