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Italy's Elena Curtoni celebrates winning the Women's Super Giant Race of the AUDI FIS Ski World Cup. Roberto Tommasini/LiveMedia-IPA/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
Italy's Elena Curtoni claimed her first alpine skiing World Cup victory since 2022 with a win in the women's super-G on home soil in Val di Fassa on Sunday.
It was also her first podium since 2023. The Italian clocked the fastest time of 1 minute 29.07 seconds, beating Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway by 0.26 seconds.
Third place also went to Italy with Asja Zenere, who made her debut on a World Cup podium.
Discipline leader Sofia Goggia was only ninth, while overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin was 23rd.
This was only a second super-G run for three-time Olympic champion Shiffrin since 2023.
In the men's slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath claimed his first win after a heartbreak at the Milan/Cortina Winter Games last month.
McGrath topped the first run and retained his lead to beat team-mate Henrik Kristoffersen by only a hundredth of a second. Third place went to Olympic champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Brazil, who won the giant slalom on Saturday.
McGrath tops the discipline standings 41 points ahead of Braathen with one event left this season.
At the Olympics, McGrath was en course to claim slalom gold. He led after the first run but straddled a gate early in the second run and didn't complete the competition.
In one of the scenes of the Games, McGrath threw away his poles, took off his skis and walked to a wooded area on the edge of the piste where he fell to the ground in bitter disappointment.
Swiss Loïc Meillard claimed the Olympic gold, but on Sunday he missed a gate and didn't finish his run.
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Italy's winner Elena Curtoni celebrates on the podium after the Women's Super Giant Race of the AUDI FIS Ski World Cup. Roberto Tommasini/LiveMedia-IPA/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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