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Switzerland’s Corinne Suter won the females’s alpine snowboarding downhill last Tuesday (Monday ET) at Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre for her very first gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Swiss alpine skier Corinne Suter takes the #Gold in the ladies’s #AlpineSkiing downhill occasion.
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Suter raced down the piste in a time of 1: 31: 87 to leading Italy’s Sofia Goggia, who won the occasion at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. Goggia ended up second with a time of 1: 32: 03, simply 16- hundredths of a 2nd behind Suter, to catch silver.
The Italian’s run was excellent after she recuperated from an injury suffered in a dreadful crash last month at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Super-G occasion.
Italy likewise had another medal winner on Monday. Nadia Delago made a bronze with a time of 1: 32:4. Elena Curtoni, likewise of Italy, completed fifth with a time of 1: 32:87
It was a remarkable run for the Italian’s general, who had all 4 of their rivals end up inside the top11
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THAT’S AMORE!
Italy presently sits at 1-2 after @goggiasofia’s beast downhill run
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Women’s Alpine Skiing Downhill Medalists and Leaderboard
- Corinne Suter, Switzerland: 1: 31: 87, gold
- Sofia Goggia, Italy: 1: 32: 03, silver
- Nadia Delago, Italy: 1: 32: 44, bronze
- Kira Weidle, Germany: 1: 32: 58
- Elena Curtoni, Italy: 1: 32: 87
- Joana Haehlen, Switzerland: 1: 33.16
- Cornelia Huetter, Austria: 1: 33.35
- Mirjam Puchner, Austria: 1: 33.45
- Marie-Michele Gagnon, Canada: 1: 33.45
- Laura Gauche, France: 1: 33.47
As for American Mikaela Shiffrin, who completed in case for the very first time in her Olympic profession, she ended up 18 th with a time of 1: 34:36 The downhill occasion is thought about Shiffrin’s weakest, though she has actually had a hard time strongly in this year’s Winter Games and has yet to medal.
The 26- year-old handled a back injury and bout with COVID-19 leading into the 2022 Winter Games, however it’s uncertain if those previous conditions have anything to do with her bad efficiencies.
Despite the absence of success so far, Shiffrin appears delighted about the ladies’s alpine combined occasion and thinks she has a possibility to do much better than she has in weeks previous.
” I suggest we’ll see. There’s a couple ladies who have an actually great shot for strong downhill runs and after that likewise truly strong slalom runs,” Shiffrin stated after Monday’s downhill last. “So, I do not feel that anything’s ensured … But I believe I take a crack at, which’s truly good. I’ll go for it, and we’ll see.”
