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Brignone and Huetter share the Super G victory

Jan 30, 2022·Alpine Skiing
GARMISCH PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANY - JANUARY 30: Federica Brignone of Team Italy takes 1st place, Cornelia Huetter of team Austria takes 1st place, Tamara Tippler of team Austria takes 3rd place during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Super G on January 30, 2021 in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany. (Photo by BEZARD Hans/Agence Zoom)

It has not happened since 2008 that there have been two winners in a World Cup Super-G. At the time it was Andrea Fischbacher and Fabienne Suter and today it is Federica Brignone and Cornelia Huetter.

Federica Brignone (ITA) rejoices for the nineteenth time in her career (the seventh in Super-G) and does so ex aequo with Cornelia Huetter (AUT). The Austrian, after her return to the podium yesterday in the downhill, managed to do even better and win for the third time in the World Cup (over four years since the last time in the downhill at Lake Louise) on the "Kandahar 1" which was the final chapter before the Games.

For Brignone, this is a significant success because, in addition to representing her third victory of the year in her discipline, it means an increasingly red bib and 3rd place in the overall standings, 254 points behind Mikaela Shiffrin (3 points ahead of Sofia Goggia).

For Cornelia Huetter, this victory crowns the weekend but, above all, represents a new starting point after all the unfortunate vicissitudes of her career. Conny's day was rounded off because her friend and teammate Tamara Tippler was on the podium with her for the ninth Super-G podium.

After this World Cup weekend, we are ready to face the Olympic Games in Beijing!