Lara Gut-Behrami wins 20th career World Cup super-G event

The standout super-G skier of her generation, Lara Gut-Behrami raced to a 20th career World Cup win at Zaunchensee, Austria  on Sunday in her favoured event that overall standings leader Mikaela Shiffrin skipped.

Only American great Lindsey Vonn's 28 wins in super-G ranks above the 2022 Olympic champion Gut-Behrami in the discipline that demands the speed of downhill and the technical skills to adapt to an unfamiliar gate-setting.

Gut-Behrami finished 0.25 seconds ahead of Cornelia Huetter, the Austrian who won the super-G Friday where the Swiss star placed third. Mirjam Puchner was third Sunday, trailing Gut-Behrami by 0.26.

The result was unofficial with low-ranked racers yet to start.

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World Cup leader Shiffrin decided not to race the speed weekend in Austria, and ended up going to the Swiss capital Bern where her partner Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is in hospital. Kilde crashed hard on Saturday in the men's downhill at Wengen and dislocated his right shoulder.

Shiffrin is scheduled to compete Tuesday evening in a World Cup slalom under floodlights at Flachau, a neighboring resort to Altenmarkt.

Crossing the line, Gut-Behrami clenched her right fist and punched the air on seeing she had taken the lead.

Her 40th World Cup win — seventh on the all-time women's win list led by Shiffrin's 93 — came 13 years after her previous win at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in a super-G. That had been just the second win of her career and Vonn was runner-up that day.

Gut-Behrami is a four-time champion in the season-long super-G standings and is second this season behind Huetter.

Shiffrin still leads the overall World Cup standings in search of a record-tying sixth title to match Annemarie