Lara Gut-Behrami Wins World Championships Super-G Title

Lara Gut-Behrami won the super-G title at the world Alpine skiing championships. She prevailed by .34 of a second over Corinne Suter.

Gut-Behrami's victory marked her first world title in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The start of the championships was delayed by three days due to weather.

Mikaela Shiffrin finished .47 behind in third, collecting her eighth world championships medal and tying Lindsey Vonn's record. Shiffrin was .36 ahead of Gut-Behrami at the last intermediate split but made a mistake, losing speed.

Gut-Behrami arrived at age 17 with a pair of world silver medals in 2009. She was the world's best skier in 2016 before tearing her left knee at the 2017 Worlds.

Gut-Behrami won the four most recent super-Gs on the World Cup. She was the most successful World Cup skier without an Olympic or world title, with 30 victories.

**Lara Gut-Behrami** earned five previous world silver or bronze medals. She said, "In the past I always wanted to win gold, and it never happened. Today, sure I was nervous … You can sometimes have too much pressure, but it was the first time that I knew that my life wouldn’t change if I would win or not."

Gut-Behrami's win was a significant milestone in her career. The championships continue with the men's super-G. **Mikaela Shiffrin** is expected to race three more times at worlds.

Gut-Behrami's victory was the first time a Swiss won the women's super-G since its worlds debut in 1987. **Maria Walliser** and **Michela Figini** went one-two for Switzerland that year.

The result was uplifting for **Mikaela Shiffrin**, who had about four days of super-G training leading into worlds. She went one full year without putting on super-G skis after her last race in the discipline in January 2020.