PREVIEW LADIES’ SUPER-G ROSA KHUTOR – Sunday 3 Mar 2019 Schmidhofer set For successive victories • Nicole Schmidhofer won the last World Cup super-G race, in Garmisch- Partenkirchen. It was her first World Cup win in super-G. • Schmidhofer can become the first Austrian woman to win successive super-G events on the World Cup since Renate Götschl in December 2006. • Götschl was also the last Austrian woman to win multiple World Cup super- G races in a season as she won four in 2006/07. • At the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, two Austrian women finished on the super-G podium: Anna Veith (gold) and Nicole Hosp (bronze). Gut-Behrami and Weirather seeking super-G win • Lara Gut-Behrami has won 12 World Cup races in 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's last super-G win on the World Cup came in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 21 January 2018. • Gut-Behrami has won at least one World Cup super-G race in each of the previous five seasons (2013/14-2017/18). • Tina Weirather has won seven career World Cup super-G races, equal to Alexandra Meissnitzer. She needs one more win to equal Hilde Gerg (8) in seventh place all-time. • Weirather has collected 21 World Cup podiums in super-G, one shy of Anna Veith (22) in sixth place all-time among women. Other contenders • Mikaela Shiffrin (rest) and Ilka Štuhec (injury) both won at least one World Cup super-G race this season but will not appear in Rosa Khutor. • Sofia Goggia has finished on the podium in each of her last three super-G races. She won the World Cup race in Åre last season, finished second in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen World Cup this season, and took silver at this year's World Championships in Åre. • Goggia has won two World Cup super-G races, equal to Federica Brignone and Deborah Compagnoni. Only Karen Putzer (4) and Isolde Kostner (3) have won more among Italian women. • Corinne Suter won the bronze medal in the super-G at this year's World Championships. She has yet to claim her first World Cup podium in super- G (best result 6th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen January 2019). • Viktoria Rebensburg has claimed two World Cup victories in this event, in Schladming in 2012 and in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 2013. Four German women have won more: Katja Seizinger (16), Hilde Gerg (8), Marina Kiehl (6) and Maria Höfl-Riesch (3). Information provided by • Ragnhild Mowinckel can become the third woman from Norway to win a World Cup super-G race after Merete Fjeldavlie on 8 March 1992 and Ingeborg Helen Marken on 7 March 1996. • Marie-Michèle Gagnon (6th in St. Moritz) came close to a podium spot in the super-G this season. The last woman from Canada to reach the podium in a World Cup super-G race was Emily Brydon who won in St. Moritz on 3 February 2008. International Ski Federation www.fis-ski.com Gracenote Sports on Twitter @GracenoteGold Information provided by .