Goggia goes with n ° 5 for the first test of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee: Brignone is back and there is Vlhova

The startlist of the training (Thursday, 10.45 am) which opens the Austrian speed stage, with the fourth seasonal descent scheduled for Saturday: as expected we will not see Shiffrin and Bassino (but also Gisin), Ledecka and Gut-Behrami are back together with the Aosta Valley. And the Slovak is aiming for the top of the World Cup by participating in both races ...

Wednesday 12 January 2022 6 minutes reading time

Altenmarkt-Zauchensee and the slope of the Kaelberloch are ready to host the return of the Women's World Cup, two years after the descent (victory of Corinne Suter in front of Nicol Delago) and the combined (Brignone over Holdener and Bassino) that were staged in the January 2020. Tomorrow the first of the two tests scheduled towards Saturday's descent (on Sunday there will be the super-g), the fourth of the season with Sofia Goggia the obligatory favorite for the possible series poker after the brace of Lake Louise and the gem of Val d''Isère; the Bergamo-based woman has chosen number 5 for the inaugural training, opened by Corinne Suter with the 1, followed by Ilka Stuhec (recovered after a positive Covid) and Elena Curtoni, who will have the 4 and will precede a formidable one, in view of the race , Christine Scheyer. There will be a return to speed, after having already done well in the giant of Kranjska Gora (fifth in a great comeback), of Lara Gut-Behrami who will start with the number 9 in practice, while Italy finds Federica Brignone, who will wear the bib. n ° 10 and has already trained with quality these days, between La Thuile and Courmayeur. Puchner (n ° 11) leads another Austrian trio with Huetter and Tippler, who could do very well here, then we find Nadia Delago, fourth blue at the gate with 14, and Breezy Johnson (15), second in the downhill cup behind Goggia. Return race also for Ester Ledecka (and we will also see Nicole Schmidhofer, who had given up on Val d''Isère), who has put aside the snowboard to aim for the first weight result of the season: the Czech will have the number 17 , followed by Mowinckel, Weidle and ... Petra Vlhova. The Slovakian confirmed her presence for the début in speed, set aside until the new year: at -55 points from Shiffrin in the general, with 254 points to defend on Goggia, it is clear that at this point the holder of the trophy he wants to try and we will see how many points he can pull out of the weekend, focusing in particular on the super-g on Sunday (it is not certain that he will make the descent on Saturday). Shiffrin is absent, as already decided for some time, like Michelle Gisin, back from two consecutive rides in slalom (the Swiss will not even compete in the super-g), and Marta Bassino who had already decided a few days to continue to train, after the excellent work done in these days together with teammates on “La VolatA” at Passo San Pellegrino. Also coming from Val di Fassa are Francesca Marsaglia, tomorrow on trial with number 23, Nicol Delago (bib 30), Roberta Melesi (46) and Karoline Pichler (52). CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST FEMALE DESCENT - ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE Startlist 1st round: 1 C. Suter, 2 Stuhec, 3 Curtoni, 4 Scheyer, 5 Goggia, 6 Flury, 7 Siebenhofer, 8 Gagnon, 9 Gut-Behrami, 10 Brignone, 11 Puchner, 12 Huetter, 13 Tippler, 14 Nadia Delago, 15 Johnson, 16 Nufer, 17 Ledecka, 18 Mowinckel, 19 Weidle, 20 Vlhova, 23 Marsaglia, 30 Nicol Delago, 46 Melesi, 52 Pichler.

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