Sofia Goggia wins downhill again at Lake Louise
The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic champion took top spot in back-to-back downhill races at the Canadian World Cup stop.
Alpine Skiing
Italy's Sofia Goggia is on a roll.
The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic women's downhill champion completed a sweep of the Lake Louise alpine skiing World Cup's two downhill races on Saturday (3 December).
Goggia, 30, wearing start bib number 13, clocked 1:28.96 to capture her 14th World Cup downhill victory and her 19th overall. She also won both downhills at the famed Canadian course last year.
Austria's Nina Ortlieb earned her third career podium finish on Saturday, taking second place in 1:29.30. Swiss star Corinne Suter, who had beaten Goggia for gold at Beijing 2022, was third (1:29.33).
Lara Gut-Behrami, the Super-G Olympic champ in Beijing, was 13th.
Following the cancellation of the World Cup in Zermatt and Cervinia at the end of October, Lake Louise marked the first downhill stop of the season, with Goggia taking an early lead in the 2022-23 downhill standings with her two wins. She is going for her third downhill Crystal Globe in succession having also won it in 2018.
American Mikaela Shiffrin has the overall World Cup lead with 265 points. She was fifth last week in Killington, Vermont, in the giant slalom, and had announced that she would not be heading to Lake Louise for the downhill events, opting to concentrate on the slalom disciplines.
Shiffrin opened the season with a pair of slalom wins in Levi, Finland.
Switzerland's Wendy Holdener is second (240) in the overall World Cup standings, followed by Slovakia's Petra Vlhova (220). Goggia moves up to fourth with 200 points following her two Lake Louise wins.
Women’s Alpine skiing World Cup downhill results – Lake Louise:
1. Sofia Goggia (ITA) 1:28.96
2. Nina Ortlieb (AUT) 1:29.30
3. Corrine Suter (SUI) 1:29.33
4. Joana Haehlen (SUI) 1:29.55
5. Ilka Stuhec (SLO) 1:29.92
For full results, see here.