Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami is halfway to Lindsey Vonn’s Cortina record after claiming a World Cup super-G on Sunday for her sixth career victory on the Olympia delle Tofane course in Italy — which again was the site of multiple crashes.
Too bad the 32-year-old Gut-Behrami can’t say for sure yet whether she’ll still be competing in two years at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
In a race when many of the top favourites struggled with a tricky course-set, Gut-Behrami edged Stephanie Venier, Friday’s downhill winner, by 0.21 seconds. Romane Miradoli finished third, 0.41 behind.
WATCH | Gut-Behrami secures victory:
Swiss racer Lara Gut-Behrami won Sunday’s super-G World Cup race at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy with a time of 1:20.75.
Asked if she will be back at Cortina next year, Gut-Behrami responded only, “We’ll see.”
It was Gut-Behrami’s fourth World Cup win in Cortina, to go with her two gold medals at the 2021 world championships at the Italian resort.
Vonn won 12 World Cup races in Cortina — six downhills and six super-Gs.
Grenier, Shiffrin among athletes to crash
After Mikaela Shiffrin crashed but avoided major injury on Friday and Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter and Swiss teammate Joana Haehlen had season-ending injuries over the weekend, there was another serious crash involving Canadian racer Valerie Grenier, who finished third on Friday.
WATCH | Canada’s Grenier crashes in super-G race:
After winning a bronze medal in Friday’s downhill race at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Val Grenier of St-Isidore, Ont., crashed hard Sunday in the super-G race and was removed off the course by toboggan.
Alpine Canada did not immediately provide injury details for Grenier, who was taken off the course by toboggan after receiving lengthy medical treatment.
Gut-Behrami, who earned her 41st World Cup victory, moved within 195 points of Shiffrin in the overall standings, with the American still out of action at least through Tuesday.
