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Incredible ski drama involving Gut-Behrami
As 17th, the Swiss no longer gets any points. Your competitor wins the race and the discipline classification.
Happy winner: Cornelia Hütter with the downhill ball
© AFP/SID/Joe Klamar
In a thrilling final race of the Alpine ski winter, the Austrian Cornelia Hütter snatched a fourth World Cup globe from the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, which seemed already certain.
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In the last descent, the 31-year-old from Styria rode as if unleashed to the sixth victory of her career and turned a 72-point deficit over the season’s dominator into a lead of 28 points in the discipline rankings.
In front of an enthusiastic audience at the World Cup final in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, Hütter benefited not least from Gut-Behrami’s worst placement of the season. The 32-year-old, who had previously secured the large crystal globes for the overall World Cup as well as the small trophies for the Super-G and giant slalom titles, only finished in a sobering 17th place. At the World Cup final, points will no longer be awarded from 16th place onwards.
Kira Weidle ended her disappointing season with an eighth place. It was only her third top ten placement in the premier alpine discipline this winter; the shifting wind prevented a better result. “It was actually a good trip, a shame if the weather decides,” she said ZDF. Before the coming season she wants to “turn over every stone” and will go into next winter with a new name: she will get married in the summer.