Nicole Schmidhofer world gold medal in the women's super-G. Blue off the podium

He had never won in the World, World Championships and Olympic Games, this time Nicole Schmidhofer Cup has made the coup claim his first victory in the Great skiing as often happens during a big event with medals.

Tuesday 7 February 2017 4 minutes reading time

The 27 year old Austrian of Stria was second in super-G in Cortina d 'Ampezzo on January 20 and the third ever in Cortina but downhill January 24, 2014, only his two podium finishes, and two and a half weeks ago was fourth in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Surprise, yes, then, but relative: today thanks to a monstrous final part preceded by 33 and 36 cents of those who were dominating the season in the specialty, ie the bearer of Liechtenstein Tina Weirather, silver medal for her first World Championships, and darling of the house Lara Gut, the Ticino, appeared a bit '' perhaps awkward because still sore arm adds a bronze to the already decent collection of world medals in which, however, lacks the 'gold: in total are now three silvers and two bronzes. The sun came and went but not in such a way as to distort the final outcome of this race. Fourth to 53 cents a talented Viktoria Rebensburg, the German has played the podium up on the top middle. Fifth at 55 cents un''ottima Elena Curtoni, which improves the sixth place worldwide in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011 always in super-G, shame because the podium was not far, 19 cents. Out of the two seasonal fall and still awaited today, Lindsey Vonn and Anna Fenninger Veith, which gives the title of specialty but this remains at home Austria: Note that in the women's super-G Wunderteam has never won the Cup in quest''anno world, while the specialty is the seventh world title in history for the Austrian. Sixth is the Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel, the seventh 'Austrian Stephanie Venier, eighth French Tessa Worley, ex-aequo with her c''Ã¨ Federica Brignone, the tenth' Our second tip of Eve, a Sofia Goggia appeared too in withheld, eleventh revelation of the season, the Slovenian Ilka Å tuhec. Sixteenth fourth blue, Francesca Marsaglia. For tomorrow the weather is expected to worsen so the men's super-G could run the risk of not being disputed.

Social media engagement