Lara Gut-Behrami Wins Last Giant Slalom of the Season, Federica Brignone Grabs the Crystal Globe

Lara Gut-Behrami wins the final Giant Slalom of the season in Sun Valley. Federica Brignone finished in second place, 0.14 seconds behind Gut-Behrami. Sara Hector rounded the podium in third place, 0.80 seconds behind the Swiss.

It's Gut-Behrami’s third World Cup win of the season. Since the 2012-2013 winter season, the 33-year-old Swiss skier has secured at least one race win in every season except for 2018-2019. She has claimed 48 World Cup race victories and is in fifth place on the all-time women's list. The only four women with more World Cup wins than her are some of the biggest legends in Alpine skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin (99), Lindsey Vonn (82), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (62), and Vreni Schneider (55).

Following her Super-G win, she made history by setting two new records with her victory in the Giant slalom at the World Cup finals.

Gut-Behrami has 100 World Cup podiums to her name. She became the fifth woman to reach 100 World Cup podiums after Mikaela Shiffrin( 155), Lindsey Vonn (138), Annemarie Proell (114), Renate Goetschl (110), and Vreni Schneider (101).

Gut-Behrami has won 10 career World Cup Giant Slalom races. With today's victory, she became the first woman to do the Alpine skiing 'triple-double' – 10+ World Cup wins in three disciplines (10 GS, 13 DH, and 24 SG). Hermann Maier (24 SG, 15 DH, 14 GS) and Pirmin Zurbriggen (11 combined, 10 DH, 10 SG) are the only men to have done it.

"I’m really happy, I have been struggling in Giant Slalom a lot this season. I’m just happy that at the end I was able to show the skiing that I can do and it’s really nice to end the season with a win in GS, a double win here," Gut-Behrami said.

"It’s unbelievable. I am just thankful I could be healthy all these years so I could do that. Thanks to my family and to my team because. I am really glad to have amazing people around me. 100 podiums, it’s unbelievable," she added.

Federica Brignone won her third Crystal Globe of the season, having secured titles in the Overall, Downhill, and Giant Slalom categories. Robinson, who arrived as the leader in the discipline at Sun Valley with a 20-point lead over Brignone, made a mistake in the first run and DNF. Brignone, with five wins and a World Championship, is crowned the best Giant Slalom skier of the 2024-2025 Alpine Ski World Cup winter season.

"In the first run I totally messed up but it was really tricky and not easy. Then after, I said ‘OK, I am going to try to give everything as always’. When you attack is more easy. At the start I wanted to try and win the race. It’s the first time in my life I crossed the finish line already knowing I was going to say ‘yes’ even if I didn’t watch the time," Brignone said.