Olympic champ Lara Gut‐Behrami beats Italian trio to win super‐G

Lara Gut‐Behrami beat three Italian skiers Sunday to win a women's World Cup super‐G that ended early due to high winds.

The Swiss Olympic champion's body language after finishing suggested she was far from happy with her performance, but her leading time still stood after all other favourites had com‐ pleted their runs.

Gut‐Behrami was 0.15 seconds faster than Federica Brignone, who won a shortened super‐G Saturday when Gut‐Behrami fin‐ ished third, and 0.19 faster than Marta Bassino.

Elena Curtoni was 0.52 back in fourth to add to the strong show‐ ing of the Italian team, which had to do without its biggest star, Sofia Goggia.

Goggia opted not to start as a precautionary measure follow‐ ing her crash in Saturday's race. The Italian team said Goggia un‐ derwent MRI and CT scans at a clinic in Milan, but they revealed no damage to her right knee.

Mikaela Shiffrin did not race this weekend, resting after an in‐ tense block of technical races. The American was expected back next weekend at speed races in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, aiming for a record‐setting 83rd women's World Cup win to break her 82‐win tie with Lind‐ sey Vonn.

A downhill that was canceled Saturday after days of excessive snowfall in St. Anton and re‐ placed with the shortened super‐ G was rescheduled for Cortina on Friday, replacing an initially planned super‐G in the Italian Dolomites on that day.

The schedule for Cortina now includes two downhills on Friday and Saturday, followed by a super‐G the next day.

The runner‐up to Shiffrin in the overall standings, Petra Vlhová also didn't compete this week‐ end. The former overall cham‐ pion from Slovakia trails Shiffrin by 399 points.