The GS was initially planned for Saturday but had to be rescheduled because of strong wind.
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In light snowfall, Brem completed the course in an impressive time of 1 minute and 15.26 seconds, beating Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg by the narrowest of margins. It remains tight. She was making a huge step today.
Viktoria Rebensburg set the quickest time of the second run which enabled her to climb up on the leaderboard, exactly what her giant slalom title campaign needed.
“I think that today my first run was almost ideal and the second one was quite good”, Brem said. Still, her lead after the first run was enough to beat Rebensburg by 0.27 seconds for the win. Bassino is the giant slalom junior World gold medalist from Jasná two years ago. Marie-Michele Gagnon progressed from the first run’s 14th place into final results’ sixth place and Ragnhild Mowinkel progressed from 17th into seventh place.
Austrian Eva-Maria Brem won the race, her third World Cup victory and second of the season, to extend her lead in the standings for the technical discipline and move closer to claiming her first Crystal Globe. Gut is third in those standings.
Gut is unable to add a second giant slalom globe, but the overall title is the Swiss’ to lose after she moved ahead of Lindsey Vonn – ruled out for season due to a knee injury – and leads third-placed Rebensburg by 263 points.
Mikaela Shiffrin, who won the slalom in Jasna on Sunday, was 1.91 behind in 11th in the American’s first GS since returning from a knee injury last month.
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The women’s World Cup continues with a super-G and a combined event in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, next weekend.
