Italy's Federica Brignone on
Thursday won the Super-G world cup after coming 19th in the last
race of the season in the speciality at Courchevel in France.
She was assured of overall victory before the start.
Brigone also came third in the overall World Cup standings for
all disciplines behind Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA and Petra
Vlhova of Slovakia, and ahead of her compatriot Sofia Goggia,
who won the downhill world cup.
"I'm very excited today and it's been great, it was my dream
forever," said the 31-year-old Milanese, who became the first
Italian woman to win the overall World Cup in 2020.
"Obviously I would have liked to have won it with a great final
race but it didn't happen for me. I'm happy anyway: the Cup is
the combination of a season that went great, above all in
superG.
"I can't wait to celebrate".
Brignone's cup win is the second for Italian women in two days.
On Wednesday Sofia Goggia won this season's Alpine skiing
downhill World Cup even before the decisive final race of the
season was over.
Switzerland's Corinne Suter finished her run provisionally in
fifth place, meaning she no longer had any chance of overhauling
Goggia's lead in the overall standings.
It is Goggia's third downhill World Cup after her victories in
2018 and 2021.
The triumph caps a remarkable season for the 29-year-old, who
won the silver medal in the downhill at the Beijing 2022 Winter
Olympics last month just 23 days after suffering a serious knee
injury.
Goggia, the 2018 Olympic downhill champion, was joined on the
podium by fellow Italian Nadia Delago, who took the bronze medal
in that race.
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