Yesterday, the Swede finished 30th in the downhill race on the same hill and got a point, the first since December 2021. Today, eight new World Cup points were added to the account after the 23rd place from starting number 54 in the track that held up well.
The Swede cheered in the finish line after the ride where she rode really fast in the fourth and last sector, was faster than the winner Lara Gut-Beharmi, as the fourth rider. Was 38th at the third split.
Wiberg: “She clenched her fist”
– Lisa had a small miss, but she wanted to and bet. She tied the knot by scoring two competitions in a row, says expert Pernilla Wiberg.
The 27-year-old’s personal record is an eleventh place in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen downhill five years ago.
Swiss veteran Lara Gut-Behrami took her 40th World Cup victory (20th in super-G) in her 356th World Cup start.
Gut Behrami is the seventh woman to reach 40 World Cup victories and shadows sixth Anja Pärson who reached 42.
“Attacked from start to finish”
– I attacked from start to finish and it was a nice feeling to find that skiing, says Gut-Behrami to the international skiing federation, Fis.
Mikaela Shiffrin sat out this race weekend and saw her overall World Cup lead cut. She supported her boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde from the hospital bed in Bern.