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Alpine skiing: American Shiffrin wins the Saint-Moritz super-G, her 77th World Cup victory

2022-12-18T17:34:20.693Z


American alpine skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin won the super-G in Saint-Moritz (Switzerland) on Sunday, winning her 77th World Cup victory, ahead of Italian Elena Curtoni and…


Olympic champion in giant (2018) and slalom (2014), her specialties, the 27-year-old skier returned to success in super-G two years after her last victory in this discipline, confirming her great versatility.

With this new victory, the third of the season after Levi's two slaloms (Finland), the Colorado skier is approaching the record of 82 World Cup victories set by her compatriot Lindsey Vonn, who retired in 2019.

Shiffrin was 12 hundredths ahead of Curtoni, victorious in the first descent on Friday on the Swiss track, and 40 hundredths ahead of Miradoli, who is on a World Cup podium for the third time.

Specialist in technical disciplines (giant and slalom), the American made this weekend in Saint-Moritz her return to speed events (downhill, super-G).

His performance on Saturday in the downhill was already encouraging.

She finished fourth, after a race dominated by Italian Sofia Goggia, fifth Sunday in the super-G.

© 2022 AFP

Source: france24

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