Nina Ortlieb (picture) takes silver, Hütter and Puchner fourth, Venier seventh.
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Gold in the downhill of the Alpine Ski World Championships in Meribel surprisingly went to Jasmine Flury. The 26-year-old Nina Ortlieb continued the ÖSV women’s series of successes on Saturday and finished only 4/100 behind the Swiss in silver.
Bronze went to Corinne Suter (+0.12). Top favorite Sofia Goggia narrowly avoided a fall when entering the finish slope and was disqualified.
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Austria’s women impressed with compactness in the front field, fourth were ex aequo the World Championship Super G bronze medalists Cornelia Hütter and Mirjam Puchner (each +0.37). Stephanie Venier came in seventh (+0.57), who jumped on the World Championship train with the last push and prevailed in the internal team qualification on Thursday.
“The tension when watching is extremely high. I’m a little annoyed, it would have been more inside,” said Ortlieb from Vorarlberg in a first TV interview. She only suffered a concussion on January 21 when she fell on the downhill run of Cortina d’Ampezzo, it was her first start in a major event. And a great deal of satisfaction after she tore the anterior cruciate ligament, the medial ligament, the lateral meniscus and the patellar tendon in her right knee in January 2021. And had a hard way back.
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Flury was fourth and tenth in downhills this winter at St. Moritz and tenth at Lake Louise. In her previous World Cup appearances, she did not get better than twelfth place in 2017 in St. Moritz in the downhill.
For Austria it was already the fifth medal in Meribel/Courchevel, Marco Schwarz also won silver in the combination. Bronze went to Ricarda Haaser and Raphael Haaser in the combination and to Hütter in the Super-G.
