Marta Bassino beat Mikaela Shiffrin to win the ladies’s super-G on Wednesday and provides Italy its second gold medal on the alpine snowboarding world championships, along with her American rival settling for silver.
Shiffrin led Bassino by three-tenths of a second on the second cut up however could not match the Italian’s tempo within the final a part of the Roc de Fer course in Meribel, France, and completed second, 0.11 seconds behind.
Cornelia Huetter of Austria and Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway each got here 0.33 behind to share the bronze medal.
Marie-Michèle Gagnon was the highest Canadian, ending twenty sixth general.
The silver is Shiffrin’s twelfth medal in 15 profession world championship races and got here two days after the American was heading for a attainable medal within the mixed occasion earlier than straddling the third-to-last gate within the slalom portion. Federica Brignone gained that race.
Bassino earned her second gold after profitable the parallel occasion at her house worlds two years in the past. She turned the second Italian skier to win the ladies’s super-G world title, after Isolde Kostner gained back-to-back golds within the mid-Nineties.
Bassino is but to win a super-G on the World Cup circuit, however did end third in two races in January.
Many pre-race favorites, together with defending and Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami and her Swiss teammate Corinne Suter, led Bassino by a number of tenths of a second earlier than shedding substantial time within the technically demanding center part of the course, which was partly shadowed.
Bassino’s teammate Sofia Goggia, the Olympic downhill champion, completed 0.76 behind in eleventh. Goggia is a favourite to make it three golds from three races for the Italian ladies’s staff in Saturday’s downhill.
American racer Tricia Mangan skied by means of a gate and had a nasty crash which broke her proper ski, however she appeared to not be severely damage.
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