Priska Nufer, 30, tops Olympic champs Ledecka, Goggia, Suter for breakout downhill win

If Swiss skier Priska Nufer was going to have a breakout success at age 30, it surely was going to be on home snow at Crans-Montana.

Nufer won a World Cup downhill on Sunday — her first podium place in close to 150 races — finishing just ahead of three Olympic gold medallists in one minute 29.93 seconds.

On a sun-bathed south-facing slope, Nufer was 0.11 seconds faster than Ester Ledecka, who won the downhill on Saturday in 1:30.17. Sofia Goggia (1:30.16) was third, 0.23 behind Nufer, and new Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter (1:30.20) was fourth, 0.27 back.

Marie-Michèle Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que., was 11th in 1:30.53 after finishing eighth in Saturday's race.

Mikaela Shiffrin skipped the back-to-back downhills and the American star's rival in the overall World Cup standings, Petra Vlhova, took advantage to pull even in their points totals by placing 16th.

In a 10-year World Cup career, Nufer never finished in the top five until placing fourth on Saturday on the Mont Lachaux course where she thrives.

Nufer now has eight career top-10 finishes in World Cup races and six have been at Crans-Montana.

Though Nufer went to the Beijing Olympics, she was not selected in the four-woman Swiss team for the downhill or super-G speed races. They were won by Nufer's teammates Suter and Lara Gut-Behrami, respectively.

Gut-Behrami, who failed to finish on Saturday, was outside the top 15 Sunday more than one second behind Nufer.

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Wearing start bib No. 37, American Isabella Wright got a career-best 10th-place finish, trailing by 0.55.

Goggia extended her lead over Suter in the season-long downhill standings with one race left, on March 16 at Courchevel, France,