In the absence of Olympic champion Ester Ledecka (Czech Republic), Tina Weirather won the World Cup Super-G at Crans Montana in Switzerland. The Olympic third-placed from Liechtenstein took her ninth World Cup victory in front of the Olympic runners-up Anna Veith from Austria (0.36 seconds behind) on a track shortened due to snowfall. The Swiss Wendy Holdener (0.38) surprisingly finished third.
Defending champion Weirather took first place in the discipline ranking of Lara Gut, who finished seventh (0.59). With a lead of 46 points over the Swiss in the last Super-G of the winter in the World Cup finals on 15 September, she will be leading the Swiss team. March in Are/Sweden.
“It was really difficult, this is the most demanding slope in the whole year,”said Weirather:”The bullet would be very important to me. It is the biggest thing to win in our sport. A bullet will never be a matter of luck.”All right, but be a giant adversary.”
The 28-year-old Weirather, who had driven a European Cup race in Crans Montana in preparation, won the race at the penultimate goal. It was extreme, on razor’s edge, I actually slowed down the momentum,”Veith said.
Ledecka abandoned the race to participate in the parallel giant slalom of the female snowboarders in Kayseri/Turkey. Viktoria Rebensburg (Kreuth) was also not at the start, she prepares herself in Ofterschwang for the giant slalom there on Friday. Also the overall World Cup leaders Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn (both USA) were missing in the canton Valais.
Patrizia Dorsch (Schellenberg/0.93) was the best German in 14th place, for her it was the best World Cup result. Kira Weidle (Starnberg/0.98), Michaela Wenig (Lenggries/1.03) and Meike Pfister (Krumbach/1.06) came in 17th to 19th place.