Federica Brignone won a World Cup super-G on Saturday for the 2020 overall champion’s first victory this season in a race that Mikaela Shiffrin skipped in St. Anton, Austria.
Brignone mastered a course shortened because of heavy overnight snowfall to finish 0.54 ahead of Joana Hählen, the 30-year-old Swiss who tied her career-best result.
Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami was third, trailing 0.66 behind Brignone.
Shiffrin rested from racing this weekend after an intense two weeks of World Cup races that included a women’s record-tying 82nd career win. The American star also has a dominating lead in the overall standings chasing a fifth overall title.
Brignone’s 21st career World Cup win lifted her to fourth in the super-G discipline standings after just three races, including one won by Shiffrin last month at St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Another super-G is scheduled Sunday on the Karl Schranz course at St. Anton.
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The legendary American skier topped the giant slalom podium at the alpine World Cup event in Slovenia.
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