Alpine Skiing-Superb Suter wins women's downhill in Garmisch
Corinne Suter boosted her confidence ahead of the winter Olympics in Beijing after a flawless run saw her win a World Cup downhill race in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
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Corinne Suter shows good form by winning last World Cup downhill race before Beijing Olympics
World champion Corinne Suter showed she is finding her best form just in time for the Winter Olympics by winning the final World Cup downhill race before Beijing. With several other top skiers skipping the race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Suter put down a clean run to earn her first win of the season. She clocked 1:40.74 on the classic course, finishing half a second ahead of Swiss team-mate Jasmine Flury.
Suter picks perfect time for first downhill win of the season
Corinne Suter appears to have found her downhill form at the perfect time as she claimed her first Alpine Ski World Cup victory of the season in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. With the Beijing Olympic Winter Games getting underway in just a week's time, Suter could hardly have picked a better moment to stand atop the World Cup podium for the first time since December 2020. Ad/> She skied confidently and adeptly in Garmisch as she won comfortably in a time of 1:40.74, a full 0.51s ahead of fellow Swiss star Jasmine Flury, who scored just a second World Cup podium finish of her career after a previous lone success back in 2017.
Alpine Skiing-Superb Suter wins women's downhill in Garmisch
(Reuters) - Corinne Suter boosted her confidence ahead of the winter Olympics in Beijing after a flawless run saw her win a World Cup downhill race in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday.
Swiss skier Suter wins last downhill before Olympics
In the absence of Sofia Goggia, world champion Corinne Suter won the last downhill before the Beijing Olympics.
Sofia Goggia of Italy overcomes windy conditions to earn another downhill victory in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Sofia Goggia survived a scare in tricky conditions to claim her fourth downhill victory in five races this season and cement her status as favourite for Olympic gold. The Italian, who will be one of her country's flag-bearers in Beijing, was pushed wide by the wind early on in front of her home fans in Cortina d'Ampezzo and almost missed a gate further down the run but recovered on both occasions to cross in 1:06.98s.
Goggia survives scare to earn another downhill victory
Sofia Goggia survived a scare in tricky conditions to claim her fourth downhill victory in five races this season and cement her status as favourite for Olympic gold. The Italian, who will be one of her country's flag-bearers in Beijing, was pushed wide by the wind early on in front of her home fans in Cortina d'Ampezzo and almost missed a gate further down the run but recovered on both occasions to cross in 1:06.98s. Ad/> That put her two-tenths of a second clear of her nearest challenger, Austria's Ramona Siebenhofer, who climbed above Breezy Johnson into second in the overall World Cup downhill standings following the American's withdrawal due to a crash in training.