Sofia Goggia wins the super G in Beaver Creek, the first specialty test of the 2024-25 World Cup. The Italian thus improves on yesterday’s excellent result, when she climbed to the second step of the podium in the free run.
The champion from Bergamo finished with a time of 1.03.90 ahead of the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami (+0.48) and the Austrian Ariane Raedler +0.55. Fifth place for Federica Brignone, sixth for Marta Bassino, ninth Elena Curtoni and 11th Roberta Melesi
It is the twenty-fifth victory of the “super Sofia” who thus becomes the third most victorious Italian skier, behind only Alberto Tomba and Federica Brignone, author of a good race today, despite not being in perfect physical condition.
Sofia Goggia is second in the women’s free at Beaver Creek. The video
14/12/2024
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Women’s World Cup: Sofia Goggia is second. Stronger than accidents
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The overall World Cup standings updated after yesterday’s race
- Camille Rast (Switzerland) 287
- Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) 245
- Zrinka Ljutic (Croatia) 202
- Sara Hector (Sweden) 182
- Lena Duerr (Germany) 181
- Sofia Goggia (Italy) 180
- Katharina Liensberger (Austria) 177
- Federica Brignone (Italy) 174
- Wendy Holdener (Switzerland) 173
- Lara Gut-Behrami (Switzerland) 160
The 32-year-old Sofia Goggia, champion from Bergamo, returned to competitions 313 days after the injury in training in Ponte di Legno in which she suffered a fractured tibia and malleolus. After surgery and a long rehabilitation, Goggia showed up at the starting gate of the World Cup stage in Beaver Creek, in the United States.
Sofia Goggia on the podium in the World Cup downhill
Sofia Goggia on the podium in the World Cup downhill (AP Photo)
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In the press conference, Sofia Goggia talks about her imminent return to the 2024-25 World Cup in Beaver Creek, after the serious injury that kept her away from skiing for a long time.
“Five races have been held, none of them speed for now, right now the last thing I think about are the hypothetical scenarios that can be created in this World Cup. I am coming back from a physically and emotionally very heavy injury, I have not skied for 8 months. The situation is to be outlined more towards January-February, but these are things I don’t think about. Beaver Creek is a new track for everyone, we will have to study it. I reason race by race, I will have to become familiar with the tests, the race, and I will follow my own path”.
Goggia often returns to that accident that negatively marked his 2024, which “compared to many other injuries I’ve had, it was different in that I had to stay out for so many months: the fracture was very complicated, I went 45 days without walking, and mentally I suffered a lot because it was a season where I was doing well, It was a period of launching pad. It was heavy but paradoxically, now that I’m back on skis, it seems that nothing has happened to me. It’s something I don’t think about despite the nightmare I lived for eight months, I regained possession of the girl I was before”.