Two days after Federica Brignone won gold in the combined to open the skiing world championships, Italian teammate Marta Bassino added another in the super-G by edging Mikaela Shiffrin.
And Sofia Gogia will be the favorite for another Italian win in Saturday’s downhill, with Elena Courtney also a strong contender.
Italy is certainly looking good so far, before Bassino tries to defend his title in the parallel race and he and Brigon go for the gold in the giant slalom.
“Federica’s performance was great. It was something that inspired me a lot, because at times she inspires me. The attitude of attacking the slopes and pushing every turn,” said Bassino. “I was thinking, ‘We’re teammates, we work together, I can do the same thing.'”
Shiffrin had to settle for a silver medal in the super-G on Wednesday, two days after she did not complete the second leg of the combined. Gogia finished 11th.
Gogia said, “Very well, now the pressure is on me.” “First Fede, then Marta and, and, and see.”
Bassino earned her second gold medal at the World Championships after sharing victory with Austrian skier Katharina Liensberger in the parallel event at her home world two years earlier.
She became the second Italian player to win the women’s Super-G world title. Isolde Köstner won back-to-back gold medals in the mid-1990s, while Deborah Compagnoni won the Olympic super-G title at the 1992 Albertville Games in Méribel.
Bassino has yet to win a Super-G on the World Cup circuit, but finished third in two races in January.
“I can’t say anything. It’s my first win in a super-G, and here at the World Championships. It’s something I have to feel,” said Bassino. “Today I just did the last part really well because I lost a lot of time in the first part. It was really hurting me to see all the other girls coming down. I’m really happy and confident in myself. It’s really Very good result for me.”
In the super-G portion of the combined, Bassino showed she was comfortable over the bumps on the Rock de Fer course. She was out of the race due to a mistake, but before that she was among the fastest runners.
“Everything was perfect in my head,” Bassino said. “I’m very happy. Parallel sleeping was good two years ago, but today it’s something extra, something big. It’s awesome. I’m really happy with myself as well as surprised that I did the race so well.” Did.”
Shiffrin said he expected Bassino to do well after watching him shortly before the race.
“I could see him in the beginning, he looked in the right area,” Shiffrin said. “I could see she had the flow and I [was] like: Now I have to focus on myself and stop looking at Marta.”
Shiffrin, who won super-G gold in 2019 and bronze two years ago, led Bassino by three-tenths of a second in the second split, but could not match the Italian’s pace in the final part of the course and finished second by 0.11 seconds. Stayed in place Back.
Austria’s Cornelia Hütter and Norway’s Kajsa Wikhof-Li finished third, 0.33 seconds behind, to share the bronze medal.
“I’m very happy with my run, and emotional, because I really don’t feel like I should be medaling in super-G right now. A lot of women are so strong and so fast,” Shiffrin said. “A moment like It was when I thought I had lost everything but then I could keep going till the end.”
The silver is Shiffrin’s 12th medal in 15 career world championship races, placing her second on the list of most medals won by a woman in the world, behind only German skier Christel Kranz, who won 15 medals in the 1930s. Were.
Shiffrin was on her way to a possible medal in the combined event on Monday before reaching the third-to-last gate in the slalom portion.
“I felt like I learned from the combined that I have to be more aggressive with my skiing and my strategy,” said Shiffrin, who finished sixth in Monday’s super-G run. “Also, this hill is tough and it deserves respect for the terrain. You have to push the limit but if you go over the limit, it’s worse. So I go really strong, really aggressive.” And trying to be a little smart.”
Shiffrin has scored 11 wins on the World Cup circuit this season, bringing her total to 85 – breaking Lindsey Vonn’s women’s record of 82 and the overall mark set by Ingmar Stenmark in the 1970s and ’80s. Went inside one.
Several pre-race favourites, including defending and Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami and Swiss teammate Corinne Sutter, led Bassino by several tenths of a second before losing substantial time in the technically demanding central section of the course, which was partially covered.
American racer Tricia Mangan skied through a gate and crashed, breaking her right ski, but she escaped serious injury.
Prior to the race, the Patroluli de France, an aerobatics squad of the French Air Force, performed formation changes and crossovers with eight jets.
The men’s super-G is to be held on Thursday.