SOLDEU, Andorra (AP)– One year after practically stopping Alpine snowboarding in aggravation, Ilka Štuhec was back at the peak of her kind on Wednesday.
The two-time world champ finished her downhill season by beating Sofia Goggia, the season’s standout speed racer, for success at the World Cup Finals.
Štuhec raced down the sun-bathed slope to complete 0.51 seconds ahead of Goggia, a five-time downhill winner this season who currently protected the discipline title. Lara Gut-Behrami was 3rd, 0.81 seconds back.
Štuhec included a 2nd success in an outstanding season when she was likewise runner-up at 2 of Goggia’s success. They were the 32- year-old Slovenian skier’s very first podium surfaces because keeping her world champion title in downhill in February 2019 in Are, Sweden.
” It implies truly a lot in fact due to the fact that this time in 2015 I was believing, should I continue? Should I give up? What should I make with my life?” Štuhec stated. “Then I listened to my guts and I resembled okay, I will alter things and I will go on due to the fact that I still sensed I might do it– and now everybody understands.”
Her previous 3 seasons were impacted by injuries and last April she divided with the coach she dealt with because 2019.
” It makes it enjoyable once again,” Štuhec stated of her 11 th profession World Cup race win. “I am actually enjoying it and I will certainly go on.”
Goggia’s season-long downhill title was the 4th in the previous 5 seasons for the 2018 Olympic champ from Italy.
Elena Curtoni, among just 4 racers to win a World Cup downhill this season, crashed Wednesday, as did Nina Ortlieb. They did not seem seriously hurt.
Mikaela Shiffrin, the total World Cup champ who won her record 87 th profession success last weekend, did not complete in the downhill. She must return for the super-G on Thursday.
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