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Petra Vlhová will perform on Sunday in her season-season super-giant slalom, which will start at 11:30 in Zauchensee, Austria.
The Slovak skier has more experience with this speed discipline than with the downhill, as she is part of the alpine combination in which she is the reigning vice-champion of the world. Vlhová left the last super-G less than a year ago, when she finished 32nd in Val di Fassa, Italy. Last season, she was in the top ten with results and also took her first podium.
In the current season, she devoted herself primarily to purely technical disciplines, but in recent days she has improved rapidly with each long ski run and track in Zauchensee. On Sundays, he may think at least in the top 20.
They should meet in a direct battle for the championship Sofia Goggia a Lara Gut-Behrami. The Italian still dominates both speed disciplines, winning the super-G twice and finishing second once. An extra motivation to finish in the first place will be the effort to correct Saturday’s downhill, in which there was still too much risk and did not finish the race after the fall. Before the start, however, she did not rule out the possibility that she would miss Sunday’s competition. She should decide in the morning.
The Swiss and the last holder of a small super-G globe, who won her first descent of the season in Zauchensee, will also be encouraged. She also won second place in the super-giant slalom and has won only once in December.
This triumph was followed by a series of complications from the fall, through the disease and the coronavirus, which eliminated Gut-Behrami from the World Cup from mid-December to early January. With her last performance, she showed that she is back in shape ready to win. In addition, she has already mastered the slopes in Zauchensee, conquered Lindsey Vonn 11 years ago.
They drove to the podium twice Mikaela Shiffrin a Elena Curtoni. Only the Italian will have a chance to add another good result, as the American did not include a weekend in Austria in her program. Another Italian is fighting for her place Federica Brignone, which managed to win once this season and on Saturday she was in a good mood 6th place in the downhill.
The Austrians can also surprise in the fight for the top 5 Tamara Tippler a Ramona Siebenhoffer, Switzerland Corinne Suter, Czech Republic Ester Ledecká or Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel. Super-G will start on Sunday, January 16 at 11:30.
