Curtoni and Vlhova open the super-g of St. Anton: Brignone with 7, Goggia with 11, then Bassino

The startlist of Sunday's race, at 11.30 am and with the blue (eight at the start) expected protagonists even more than downhill. Ledecka, red specialty bib, opts for 19.

Saturday 9 January 2021 6 minutes reading time

So much blue expected, probably even more than what we have already seen in the descent, where the Italjet placed three athletes between the first eight and five in the fifteen, with the triumph of Sofia Goggia as the seal of author. The second super-g of the World Cup season will conclude, on Sunday with a start at 11.30 (live on TV on Eurosport and Rai Sport), the weekend of St. Anton with a race that, on the track designed by Marco Viale, technician Italian for years working with the French, will propose another frontal clash between the jet women, after the victory of Ester Ledecka in the opening race in Val d''Isère. The Olympic specialty champion opted for number 19, the last of the big names at the start, while Corinne Suter, second in the opening on the “O.K.”, will start in ninth. There will be Italy immediately with Elena Curtoni, forced to choose bib number 1 which, exactly as it happened three weeks ago in France, risks significantly influencing the Valtellina race, eighth today in descent. Petra Vlhova will follow, who caught the 2nd (and also in this case, not the best ...) and will aim for a weighty result after sixth place in Val d''Isère and the excellent 12th today . After Venier, Lie and above all Gut-Behrami (5) and Tippler (6), here is Federica Brignone with number 7 and a mad desire to redeem today's race and aim straight for the first victory of the season, after starting in super-g with a 3rd place. After the absolute World Cup holder we will see Michelle Gisin, who suffered a lot on the downhill on Karl Schranz (only 20th, but already in practice it was understood that things were wrong), precisely Suter and a third Swiss in series, Wendy Holdener. After the break, here is the turn of Sofia Goggia with 11 and another triptych, this time all blue with Marsaglia again with bib 12 and Marta Bassino who has chosen 13. The Cuneo woman can do very well, followed by at the gate from Stuhec and Ortlieb. Just after 8 pm Laura Pirovano, for whom an excellent n ° 21 was drawn: the thirty, splendid fifth downhill, is capable of anything. Finally Roberta Melesi with 33 and Nadia Delago with 48, looking for useful points to improve their respective rankings. In addition to Worley with 23, Alice Robinson back in super-g with bib 41, Breezy Johnson (three times third in the downhill in this start of the season) with 44, the return of Estelle Alphand after years of speed , with the Swede starting 49th among the 54 athletes at the start, the last of which will be Mina Fuerst Holtmann, who is also curious to test herself in this discipline. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST SUPER-G FEMALE - ST. ANTON Startlist: 1 E. Curtoni, 2 Vlhova, 3 Venier, 4 Lie, 5 Gut-Behrami, 6 Tippler, 7 Brignone, 8 Gisin, 9 C. Suter, 10 Holdener, 11 Goggia, 12 Marsaglia, 13 Bassino, 14 Stuhec, 15 Ortlieb, 16 Gauthier, 17 Mowinckel, 18 Haehlen, 19 Ledecka, 20 Nufer, 21 Pirovano, 33 Melesi, 48 Nadia Delago.

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