Shiffrin takes world championship gold in the Super G

Image source: Are2019, Nisse Schmidt

The victory of Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) in today's World Cup Super G in Are, Sweden, is a surprise for the American fans. The slalom queen has only achieved brilliant results since this season and it is accordingly her first medal in this discipline and therefore also a small surprise for herself, even if the three World Cup victories this winter clearly indicated that Shiffrin had to be on the radar as a medal candidate.

Today's medal contenders included Tina Weirather, Sofia Goggia, Nicole Schmidhofer, Lara Gut-Behrami, Viktoria Rebensburg and Ilka Stuhec. In bright weather, however, the racers also struggled to find the right line. The pressure of their own expectations was sometimes the stumbling block. This is how it also caught Tina Weirather, who missed a gate, or Lindsey Vonn, who crashed in her second-to-last race of her career.

The biggest surprise was delivered by Switzerland's Corinne Suter, who advanced to third place and took the bronze medal. Suter, who has never been able to score at the front in the World Cup, picked up her first medal. At the press conference, she said, "I was finally able to show what I can do. I had bad luck in Garmisch, but good luck here and today."

Numerous failures, brilliant weather and a hundredths thriller, which the American Mikaela Shiffrin won to her own astonishment and thus won her first medal at a World Cup in the Super G. This was the first race at the 2019 FIS Ski World Championships in Are, Sweden.

Rank	Driver	Travel time	Backlog
1	Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)	1:04:89
2	Sofia Goggia (ITA)	1:04:91	+ 0.02 sec.
3	Corinne Suter (SUI)	1:04:94	+ 0.05 sec.
4	Viktoria Rebensburg (GER)	1:04:96	+ 0.07 sec.
5	Nadia Fanchini (ITA)	1:05:03	+ 0.14 sec.
6	Ragnhild Mowinckel (NOR)	1:05:05	+ 0.16 sec.
7	Francesca Marsaglia (ITA)	1:05:13	+ 0.24 sec.
8	Ilka Stuhec (SLO)	1:05:15	+ 0.26 sec.
9	Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI)	1:05:37	+ 0.48 sec.
10	Federica Brignone (ITA)	1:05:43	+ 0.54 sec.