Four Italians in the first eleven of the general classification, but Shiffrin is uncatchable: the rankings after "Semmering 2"

After the second giant of Semmering, the American has over 300 points of margin on Goggia and Vlhova (and there are six other technical races lined up on the horizon); between the wide doors, Mikaela is chasing Bassino at -40, with Gut-Behrami still there in full battle.

Wednesday 28 December 2022 6 minutes reading time

A lot, a lot of blue up front in the women's World Cup overall, with four athletes among the first eleven, but only one absolute master of the most important classification, given that the one-two in the giants of Semmering launched Mikaela Shiffrin towards the great escape, with the possibility of further increasing the gap with the next slalom (3 in a row between the one that will close the Austrian appointment on Thursday and the two in Zagreb), in particular compared to Sofia Goggia who is still second, 305 pts from holder of the crystal ball, but Vlhova and Holdener are found in the fast lane. Marta Bassino, with another 3rd place, climbed to seventh position overtaking Curtoni herself, ninth, while Brignone is starting to fuel up and is eleventh, but still quite far from the virtual podium (just over 200 pts from Vlhova) . In the giant classification, perhaps the most interesting ever so far, after 4 races out of the 9 on the calendar, Bassino retains 40 lengths compared to Shiffrin and has 48 on Gut-Behrami, who is a candidate among the most dangerous rivals, while those who I played it last season, Hector and Worley, now they find themselves with an important disadvantage after today's negative match. For the red bib from Cuneo from the second race, now there will also be two favorable challenges on paper, with the brace in Kranjska Gora (7-8 January) that evokes very sweet memories, given that Marta dominated on Podkoren in January 2021. Giant WCSL chapter: with today's 2nd place, Lara Gut-Behrami is now much calmer inside the first group with a margin on Mowinckel, while Shiffrin overtook Hector in first place by a handful of points (and Bassino in 4th Worley). Grenier is back in the 15, thanks to the super race-2 of Semmering (after the disqualification on Tuesday that had taken her out of the second group), while for Melesi and Zenere the appointment with entry into the thirty is still postponed essential for both. GIANT WOMEN'S WORLD CUP STANDINGS (4/9) 1st Marta Bassino 300 pts, 2nd Mikaela Shiffrin 260, 3rd Lara Gut-Behrami 252, 4th Petra Vlhova 226, 5th Federica Brignone 174, 6th Sara Hector 172, 7th Tessa Worley 157, 8th Ragnhild Mowinckel 131 , 9th Paula Moltzan 100, 10th Katharina Liensberger 81, 11th Ricarda Haaser 74, 12th Maryna Gasienica-Daniel 72, 13th Valérie Grenier 67, 14th Wendy Holdener 65, 15th Alice Robinson 62, 23rd Asja Zenere 31 , 28th Roberta Melesi 27. OVERALL WOMEN'S WORLD CUP STANDINGS (14/39) 1st Mikaela Shiffrin 775 pts, 2nd Sofia Goggia 470, 3rd Petra Vlhova 456, 4th Wendy Holdener 400, 5th Lara Gut-Behrami 371, 6th Corinne Suter 337, 7th Marta Bassino 335, 8th Ragnhild Mowinckel 311 , 9th Elena Curtoni 306, 10th Sara Hector 279, 11th Federica Brignone 249, 12th Mirjam Puchner 231, 13th Anna Swenn Larsson 220, 14th Michelle Gisin 210, 15th Cornelia Huetter 209, 35th Laura Pirovano 80, 45° Nicol Delago 61, 63° Asja Zenere 31, 68° Roberta Melesi 28, 78° Nadia Delago 17, 84° Marta Rossetti 13, 86° Lara Della Mea 12, 87° Vera Tschurtschenthaler 11, 94° Anita Gulli 8, 94 ° Karoline Pichler 8, 103° Lucrezia Lorenzi 3. WCSL GIANT FEMALE 1st Mikaela Shiffrin 583 pts, 2nd Sara Hector 579, 3rd Petra Vlhova 550, 4th Marta Bassino 527, 5th Tessa Worley 518, 6th Federica Brignone 426, 7th Lara Gut-Behrami 388, 8th Ragnhild Mowinckel 321 , 9th Maryna Gasienica-Daniel 232, 10th Michelle Gisin 214, 11th Katharina Truppe 191, 12th Paula Moltzan 178, 13th Valérie Grenier 168, 14th Coralie Frasse Sombet 160, 15th Katharina Liensberger 157, 15th Thea Louise Stjernesund 157, 33rd Roberta Melesi 40, 36th Asja Zenere 31, 39th Sofia Goggia 24, 43rd Elena Curtoni 17, 55th Karoline Pichler 3.

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