Italy's Federica Brignone took victory in today's start of the Alpine Skiing World Cup. She won the super-giant slalom in the French winter center of Val d'Isere.
Brignone left +0.44 seconds behind Kaisa Wikhof Li from Norway on the podium, and the compatriot of the winner - Sofia Godzha, was also on the podium, remaining 59 hundredths from the first place.
Women's Grand Crystal Globe winner Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish today's race, being one of 26 skiers who did not cross the finish line. In addition to Shiffrin, Alice Robinson (New Zealand), Lara Guth-Behrami (Switzerland) and Marta Bassino (Italy) were among the non-finalists. Otherwise, the Austrian Cornelia Hüter, the Swiss Michelle Gisin and Joanna Helen, the Italian Laura Pirovano, the Swiss Jasmine Fleury, as well as the Germans Kira Weidle and Emma Eichner also made it into the top 10.
After today's win, which was Brignone's third since the start of the season, she moved closer to leader Shiffrin in the Grand Crystal Globe standings - the American has a 63-point lead. Third is Gut-Behrami. In the standings for the Small Crystal Globe in the Super-G discipline, Goja leads by 15 points ahead of Brignone and by 30 ahead of Hütter.
For the ladies, slalom is again on French soil, but this time in Courchevel on December 21. /BGNES
