PREVIEW WOMEN's SUPER-G SOCHI – Sunday 2 Feb 2020
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PREVIEW WOMEN'S SUPER-G SOCHI – Sunday 2 Feb 2020 Viktoria Rebensburg • Viktoria Rebensburg won two of the last four super-G races in the World Cup, in Soldeu on 14 March and in Lake Louise on 8 December. • Rebensburg can become the first German woman to win multiple super-G events in a World Cup season since Hilde Gerg (2) in 2001/02. • The only German women to have claimed more World Cup super-G wins than Rebensburg (4) are Katja Seizinger (16), Gerg (8) and Marina Kiehl (6). Italy • Nicol Delago (Lake Louise), Federica Brignone (St. Moritz) and Marta Bassino (Bansko) claimed second places in the super-G this World Cup season. Compatriot Sofia Goggia won in St. Moritz. • Only Putzer (4), Goggia (3) and Kostner (3) have won more World Cup super-G races among Italian women than Brignone (2). • Delago and Bassino can become the eighth Italian woman to win a super-G in the World Cup. Lara Gut-Behrami • Lara Gut-Behrami has won 12 World Cup races in the super-G, equal to Carole Merle in joint-fourth place among women. Only Lindsey Vonn (28), Renate Götschl (17) and Katja Seizinger (16) have won more. • Gut-Behrami finished third place in Bansko last weekend, exactly one year after her last podium finish in a super-G World Cup event. Not since January 2018, she recorded back-to-back podiums in this discipline. • Gut-Behrami claimed the bronze medal in the downhill in 2014 in Sochi at the Olympic Games. Other contenders • Tina Weirather has won seven career World Cup super-G races, as many as Alexandra Meissnitzer. She needs one more win to equal Hilde Gerg (8) in seventh place on the all-time women's list. • Weirather has collected 21 World Cup podiums in the super-G, one shy of Anna Veith (22) in sixth place on the all-time women's list. • Corinne Suter claimed third place in the Lake Louise super-G, her first World Cup podium in this discipline. Last season, she won bronze in this discipline at the world championships. • Anna Veith won the gold medal on this slope in 2014 at the Olympic Games in the super-G. She has not won a super-G event in the World Cup in more than two years, since a win in Val d'Isère on 17 December 2017. Information provided by International Ski Federation www.fis-ski.com Gracenote Sports on Twitter @GracenoteGold Information provided by .