PREVIEW LADIES’ ROSA KHUTOR DOWNHILL – Saturday 2 Mar 2019 Battle for the crystal Globe • Nicole Schmidhofer (444 points), Ramona Siebenhofer (354), Stephanie Venier (340) and Kira Weidle (278) are the four women still in contention for the downhill crystal Globe. • Schmidhofer secures the downhill crystal Globe if she has a lead of at least 101 points after the race in Rosa Khutor. • Austria has won the ladies' downhill crystal Globe a record 18 times, but not since Renate Götschl won in 2007. • The last Austrian woman to win a World Cup standinGs was Eva Maria- Brem who won the Giant slalom crystal Globe in 2016. AustrIa seekInG sIxth downhIll vIctory • Austrian women have won five of the seven ladies' downhill events this World Cup season: Nicole Schmidhofer (2), Ramona Siebenhofer (2) and Stephanie Venier (1). • This century, only one country has won at least six ladies' World Cup downhill races in a season: United States in 2009/10 (6, all by Lindsey Vonn). • Austrian women could claim six downhill victories in a World Cup season for the first time since 1998/99 (6). • Siebenhofer and Schmidhofer could both become the first Austrian woman to win three World Cup downhill events in one season since Renate Götschl in 2006/07 (4 wins). Other contenders • Sofia GoGGIa has claimed three wins and four second places in her last eiGht World Cup downhill participations. She won the last World Cup downhill race, in Crans-Montana. • GoGGia could win successive downhill races on the World Cup for the second time after January 2018, when she won in Bad Kleinkirchheim and Cortina d'Ampezzo. • GoGGia has won six World Cup races in all disciplines, equal to Denise Karbon. Only Deborah CompaGnoni (16), Isolde Kostner (15), Federica BriGnone (10) and Karen Putzer (8) have won more amonG Italian women. • Kira Weidle has finished on the podium of a ladies' World Cup downhill race twice this season, third in Lake Louise and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. • The last German woman to win a downhill race on the World Cup was Maria Höfl-Riesch in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 24 January 2014. • CorInne Suter collected a silver (downhill) and bronze (super-G) medal at this year's World Championships in Åre. • Last weekend, Suter finished third in the downhill race in Crans-Montana, her first World Cup podium. Information provided by • The last Swiss woman to win a downhill race On the World Cup was Lara Gut-Behrami in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 28 January 2017. International Ski Federation www.fis-ski.com Gracenote Sports on Twitter @GracenoteGold Information provided by .