Ragnhild Mowinckel wins Cortina super-G; Mikaela Shiffrin’s report chase strikes on
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a report 83rd World Cup win will transfer on to the following cease on the circuit.
Shiffrin completed seventh in a super-G on Sunday, 0.62 seconds behind race winner Ragnhild Mowinckel, to mark the third straight occasion in Cortina this weekend that she missed the rostrum.
Her subsequent probabilities to interrupt a tie with former teammate Lindsey Vonn for the ladies’s report will are available two large slaloms on the Kronplatz resort in close by San Vigilio di Marebbe on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mowinckel completed 0.30 seconds forward of Austrian Cornelia Huetter and 0.47 seconds forward of Italian Marta Bassino on the course that might be used for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
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Swiss Corinne Suter and Italian Sofia Goggia, the final two Olympic downhill champions, sat out following race falls on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Shiffrin was on tempo to complete on the rostrum till she veered large off the racing line towards the top of her run simply earlier than the concluding soar into the end space. She shook her head barely upon seeing her time, which at that time was good for second place behind Bassino.
“I made a bit of error with my timing on the final activate the course,” Shiffrin stated. “And naturally it’s fairly flat down right here so that you lose some pace. Nevertheless it was fairly a powerful run.”
It was the third profession victory for Mowinckel, who claimed silver medals in each downhill and large slalom on the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics earlier than lacking all the 2019-20 season as a consequence of a severe knee harm.
“I used to be usually stunned once I noticed my time as a result of I knew the race was shut,” Mowinckel stated.
The race began straight into the Tofana Schuss, a chute between two partitions of rock that’s the steepest a part of the course, quickly ramping skiers’ speeds as much as 70 mph as they rushed zig-zag down the mountain.
If Shiffrin doesn’t win in San Vigilio, her subsequent races might be two slaloms — her finest occasion, having accounted for 51 of her 82 wins — in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, subsequent weekend. That was the place Shiffrin made her World Cup debut as a 15-year-old in March, 2011.
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