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Martha Bassino
Photo: IMAGO/GEPA pictures/ Mario Buehner / IMAGO/GEPA pictures
At the Alpine Ski World Championships in Méribel, the Italian Federica Brignone was the top favorite in the Super-G competition.
At the end of the race there was an Italian victory - not for Brignone, but for Marta Bassino.
The 26-year-old won her second world title after 2021 in the parallel competition.
In the World Cup she had already made it onto the podium four times in the Super-G, but she had never managed to win.
At the finish, Bassino had to tremble for a long time.
Especially in the first part of the race, numerous female riders were clearly ahead of her.
But neither Brignone, nor the Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel nor Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland could save their lead over Bassino, who was outstanding in the lower part, to the finish.
German starters without a chance
Mikalea Shiffrin from the USA took silver (+0.11 seconds), bronze went to Norway's Kajsa Lie and Cornelia Hütter from Austria (each +0.33 seconds).
The top six were separated by just 0.37 seconds.
The German starters Emma Aicher (+1.15 seconds) and Kira Weidle (+1.81 seconds) had nothing to do with the decision.
So far, Brignone has won the 2023 World Ski Championships and local hero Alexis Pinturault has succeeded in the combination.
The men's Super-G is on the program on Thursday (11.30 a.m. / TV: ZDF).
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