World Cup skiing rail brief (e-edition)
Published 8:12 pm Friday, March 22, 2024
Lara Gut-Behrami won the World Cup season title in super-G for the fifth time on Friday, doing just enough by placing seventh in the final race won by the 2018 Olympic champion Ester Ledecka.
Gut-Behrami needed to finish eighth or better to protect her lead in the standings and claim a third crystal globe trophy of her stellar season. The Swiss star, who won her first World Cup race in 2008 at the age of 17, already clinched the overall and giant slalom titles.
In Friday’s race, Gut-Behrami’s nearest challengers Federica Brignone and Cornelia Huetter were second and fifth, respectively.
Gut-Behrami’s season-long points total in super-G rose to 576, finishing 30 ahead of Brignone. Huetter was 60 points back in third.
“Super-G is the discipline I really love,” said Gut-Behrami, who won Olympic gold in the discipline in 2022. “To win the globe again is unbelievable.”