Sofia Goggia achieves another Lindsey Vonn feat in Lake Louise

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Italian Sofia goggia became the third woman to win the Alpine Skiing World Cup races in Lake Louise, after downhill victories Friday and Saturday by winning the super-G on Sunday in Canada.

Goggia, the 2018 Olympic downhill champion, won by .11 of a second over the world champion Lara Gut Behrami from Switzerland. Austrian Mirjam Puchner was third.

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Mikaela shiffrin, in his first World Cup super-G in 22 months, was sixth. Shiffrin, after placing 26th and 38th in the downhills, was faster than Goggia in the first two split times on Sunday, then lost time near the bottom of the course.

“Obviously the descents weren’t very fast for me,” said Shiffrin with a laugh, according to US Ski and Snowboard. “So I thought uh, oh, maybe I can’t really do it. But I still feel pretty comfortable on a super-G ski so it’s really positive and I feel a little better for the weekend as a whole.

“The skiing and all those parts were there, and I’m actually really excited that I haven’t trained a lot in the last few weeks. I was quite worried as we approached this week.

Goggia has joined Lindsey Vonn and Katja Seizinger as the only woman to win all three Lake Louise races in one season. Vonn did this in 2011, 2012, and 2015.

Goggia was linked with her friend Vonn all weekend.

On Friday she won the downhill by 1.47 seconds, the biggest margin in the past 50 years by a woman other than Vonn and Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll, the two greatest descenders in history.

On Saturday she won her sixth straight downhill start, tying the longest streak in the past 40 years shared by Vonn and Picabo Street.

The Women’s Alpine Skiing World Cup travels to St. Moritz, Switzerland for a pair of super-Gs next weekend.

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