Italy’s Brignone wins giant slalom world title, Canmore’s Richardson 10th
Italy’s Federica Brignone dominated both runs to win the women’s giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, on Thursday while defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin sat out.
Brignone posted a two-run combined time of two minutes, 22.71 seconds to claim her second medal from these worlds after earning silver in super-G a week ago. Brignone also leads the overall World Cup standings in arguably the best season of her career.
Alice Robinson was 0.90 seconds behind Brignone to take silver – which marks New Zealand’s first medal in worlds history.
Paula Moltzan of the United States was 2.62 seconds behind and took bronze for her first individual world championship medal. She edged fourth-placed Thea Louise Stjernesund of Norway by one-hundredth of a second.
Britt Richardson of Canmore, Alta., was a world championship career-best 10th (2:26.60), 3.89 seconds behind Brignone, after placing 21st two years ago in Courcheval, France. Richardson also picked up a bronze medal in the team parallel event at that competition.
WATCH | Richardson skis to 10th-place finish:
Britt Richardson of Canmore, Alta., finished in tenth place in the women’s giant slalom race, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.
Eighteenth after the opening run, her second effort put her in the leader’s chair for a handful of racers. It was fourth best in the field and vaulted her eight spots.
Richardson told Devin Heroux of CBC Sports she struggled mentally and physically entering the race.
“It’s tough to switch your mindset,” she said. “My goal was to leave the start gate and leave nothing behind, so I took a lot of risk. To see that pay off is good.”
WATCH | Richardson: ‘Between runs I had to make a new plan’:
Britt Richardson of Canmore, Alta., spoke with CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux after finishing in tenth place in the women’s giant slalom race, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.
Fellow Canadian Val Grenier (2:27.37), of St-Isidor, Ont., finished 14th.
A little over a year ago, she needed shoulder surgery to repair a fractured humerus and also had reconstructive right knee surgery following a horrific crash during a World Cup super-G race in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy.
Grenier is working hard but understands she needs to be patient.
“I always want more for myself [and] I feel I keep getting disappointed,” she told Heroux. “It’s difficult coming back from injury and I feel I’m not there yet. I want to train more but I’m not able to.”
WATCH | Grenier talks with CBC Sports about being disappointed:
Valérie Grenier of St-Isidore, Ont., got emotional in a post-race interview with CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux, following her 14th-place finish in the giant slalom event, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.
Cassidy Gray of Invermere, B.C., fell in the first run and didn’t finish.
Shiffrin skipped the event because she said she was not ready yet to race giant slalom again following a crash in November.
“I have been dreaming of this moment for many, many years. I was always second,” said Brignone, who won GS silver in 2011 and 2023. “This is just one of the best days of my life.”
She’s the first Italian winner of the event since Deborah Compagnoni won back-to-back titles in 1996-97.
Brignone covered her face with both hands when she saw she won. Then Robinson and Moltzan embraced her in the finish area.
WATCH | Brignone claims world championship giant slalom gold:
Federica Brignone won the giant slalom event at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.
The American said she was “just happy, joyful” for her bronze. She was fourth in Tuesday’s team combined with downhiller Lauren Macuga, and in the mixed team parallel event last week.
“It’s been kind of a roller-coaster of a season, with results and with emotions,” said Moltzan, whose parents were among the 11,000 spectators.
“For it all to kind of play out on the really big stage is amazing. I can’t believe I was on the right side of the hundredth today.”
Shiffrin planned to start in Saturday’s slalom. She paired with downhiller Breezy Johnson and skied the slalom portion to win the team combined event.
Shiffrin won the giant slalom world title in 2023 and has been on the podium in GS at every worlds since 2017.
“What I have been struggling with this past couple of weeks with GS is, when we bring in normal or, like, real conditions, a little bit harder snow, I don’t even know that I’m scared,” Shiffrin said. “I just can’t do the movements that you need to do to make a fast GS turn.”
Veteran Brignone sets new record
The American holder of a record 99 World Cup wins suffered a deep puncture wound when she fell in a GS on Nov. 30 in Killington, Vt., causing severe trauma to her oblique muscles, and underwent surgery in December.
At 34 years, seven months, Brignone became the oldest female medallist at the worlds. She overtook Lindsey Vonn, who was four months younger when she won downhill bronze in 2019.
Vonn, who came out of retirement after nearly six years at age 40 this season with a new titanium knee, doesn’t race in giant slalom anymore.
The next event at worlds is the men’s giant slalom on Friday, followed by men’s slalom on Sunday.
Watch live coverage of the alpine world championships on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. A live streaming schedule is available here.
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