The Birds of Prey racecourse in Beaver Creek will host the first Women’s Super-G event of the Alpine Ski World Cup season.
Beaver Creek (USA)
December 15th Super-G / Women 11:00 LOC / 19:00 CET
Six Women won the nine Super-Gs held last Alpine Ski World Cup Season: Sofia Goggia (St. Moritz), Federica Brignone (Val d'Isère, and Kvitfjell), Cornelia Hütter (Zauchensee), Lara Gut-Behrami (Zauchensee, Cortina d'Ampezzo, and Kvitfjell), Stephanie Venier (Crans Montana), and Ester Ledecka (Saalbach).
Lara Gut-Behrami won the Super-G Crystal Globe last season. She joined the Club of Super-G stars with her fifth Crystal Globe (2014, 2016, 2021, 2023, and 2024). German Katja Seizinger (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1998) and American Lindsey Vonn (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015) are the other two women in this exclusive group.
On the Men side, Austrian Hermann Maier (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2004) and Norwegian Aksel Svindal (2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2014) are also in the exclusive club of the winners of five Super-G Crystal Globes.
She is the first woman to win the Super-G title in successive seasons since Tina Weirather won in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018.
Gut-Behrami became the first Swiss woman to win three different World Cup classifications (Giant Slalom, Super-G, and Overall) in a single season since Vreni Schneider won the Slalom, Giant Slalom and Overall World Cup in 1994-1995.
The skier from Ticino finished on the podium in six of the nine Super-G events last season including three victories in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Cortina d'Ampezzo, and Kvitfjell (she DNF in Val d'Isère, finished in 6th place in Crans Montana, and in 7th place in Saalbach).
The 33-year-old Swiss celebrated in Kvitfjell her 45th win in the Alpine Ski World Cup and eighth victory of the season.
Gut-Behrami (22) is second for most World Cup Super-G wins among women, only trailing Lindsey Vonn (28). Gut-Behrami (39) sits third for most podium finishes, trailing only Lindsey Vonn (46) and Renate Götschl (41).
Lara Gut-Behrami is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in the super-G at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games.
Federica Brignone finished in second place on the Super-G standings last season. The 34-year-old skier won two Super-G events last season (Val d'Isère, and Kvitfjell) and finished on the podium in the other two (Crans Montana and Saalbach.
The Italian skier celebrated six victories in the 2023-2024 winter season. Brignone achieved 10 of her 28 Alpine Ski World Cup victories in Super-G and 20 of her 70 podiums in the same discipline. In the season opener in Sölden, Brignone secured her 28th victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup. The only Italian skier to have won more than 28 World Cup events is the legendary Alberto Tomba, with 50 victories.
Brignone has finished first or second in the Super-G standings for the last five Alpine Ski World Cup seasons (2-2-1-2-2), winning the Crystal Globe in 2021-2022.
With 10 wins, Brignone is currently tied for sixth place in the most World Cup Super-G victories, alongside Michaela Dorfmeister.
Last season, Cornelia Hütter achieved a top-three finish in the Super-G World Cup standings for the first time. Previously, her best results were two fourth-place finishes in the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 winter seasons. Hütter had a successful Super-G season last year, finishing on the podium four times. This included a victory in the first event held in Zauchensee and three second-place finishes in St. Moritz, Zauchensee, and Kvitfjell.
2023-2024 was the best season in Huetter's career finishing 5th in the Overall standings, first in the Downhill, and third in the Super-G.
Stephanie Venier finished in fourth place in the Super-G standings last season. She climbed onto the podium two times, including a victory in Crans Montana, her maiden World Cup win in the Super-G, seven years after her first podium in the discipline in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It's the third victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup for Venier and her 11th podium. Venier became the 19th Austrian to win a Super-G race in the World Cup. The Tirolean was also the first Austrian to win a Super-G event in Crans Montana.
In the 2023-2024 season, Kajsa Vickhoff Lie achieved three podium finishes in a World Cup season for the first time. All three podiums were in Super-G events: she secured second places in Val d'Isère and Altenmarkt/Zauchensee, along with a third place in Saalbach.
Two years after winning her last World Cup race, Ester Ledecka returned to the top of the podium at the Alpine Ski World Cup Finals in Saalbach. The Super-G Olympic champion celebrated her 10th podium finish and her fourth World Cup victory.
Mirjam Puchner won the silver medal in the Super-G at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. At the World Cup, she has never finished higher than third place in a Super-G event: in Lake Louise in December 2021, in Altenmarkt in January 2024, and Kvitfjell in March 2024.
In 2023, Marta Bassino won the Super-G race in Courchevel-Méribel, claiming her second World Championship title. She had previously won gold in the Parallel event at the 2021 World Championships in Cortina. Bassino is currently striving for her first victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G discipline, having achieved five podium finishes at the World Cup level so far, which include two second places and three third places.
Kira Weidle is looking to become the first German woman to record a World Cup Super-G podium finish since Viktoria Rebensburg won in Lake Louise on 8 December 2019.
Sofia Goggia won the first Super-G of the 2023-2024 winter season in St. Moritz. It was her first Super-G victory in almost two years. The last time she was on the top of the podium was in Val d'Isère on December 19, 2021. She secured another Super-G podium last season in Val d'Isère, finishing in third place. The 32-year-old speed specialist celebrated her sixth Super-G World Cup victory.
World downhill champion and Olympic gold medalist Corinne Suter is considering a comeback at Beaver Creek but will make a final decision after training.
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