2021 cortina world championships
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The Ticino crowned a dominatrix season by beating her compatriot Corinne Suter and a splendid Mikaela Shiffrin, who lost gold with a serious mistake at Rumerlo. Brignone and Bassino tenth and eleventh.
Thursday 11 February 2021 4 minutes reading time
They had not triumphed in the specialty since that home World Cup, Crans-Montana 1987, with Maria Walliser.
And it could only be Lara Gut-Behrami who gave Switzerland the world super-g title, opening the world championship in Cortina respecting all the forecasts. Winner of the last four World Cup races, the Ticino champion is solid, almost perfect on the Olympia delle Tofane and takes her first gold in a great event, after five world medals and one Olympic, with enormous merit.
And the brace in the Rossocrocia home also arrives, with the "medal woman" Corinne Suter back on the podium as in Are, today second at 34 cents behind her teammate on a track, and above all a snow, objectively easy and perfect for the native of the Canton of Schwyz. The bronze medal goes to a splendid Mikaela Shiffrin, who has simply enchanted for three quarters of the race, ready to go for a resounding gold encore two years after Are (returning to a speed race after more than a year! ), before a mistake at Rumerlo cost her practically a second. At the last intermediate, the American led with 36 cents of margin on Gut-Behrami ...
However, Ester Ledecka also eats her hands, off the podium for six cents after having already made a mistake in the upper part, with Kajsa Vickhoff Lie caressing the idea of her first world medal, finishing fifth at 65 cents from the winner, ahead of Gagnon (excellent sixth, + 0 "78), to a Tippler like this and to Michelle Gisin, eighth (+ 0" 89) and a cent ahead of Petra Vlhova, ninth after having dreamed at least the bronze up to Rumerlo, after which the Slovak he really lost a lot in the final stretch of sliding.
And the blue ones? Objectively a bad world debut, with Federica Brignone forced to settle for tenth position, 1 ”09 from Gut-Behrami and with a skiing that has not yet seemed hers. A track, albeit based on the design of Giovanni Feltrin, really too easy, where you had to "look for" speed and even Marta Bassino struggled; in reality the Cuneo-based woman, at the end of the eleventh at 1 "19, paid enormously for the upper part, already losing every chance of a medal even though she technically skied very well the whole central section of the Olympia delle Tofane
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Super-G Female replaces: 09.02.2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)
GUT-BEHRAMI Lara
SUTER Corinne
SHIFFRIN Mikaela
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2021 cortina world championships
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2021 cortina world championships
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