Cornelia Hütter celebrates strong start in the departure season!

Cornelia Hütter celebrates strong start in the departure season!

An exciting start to the alpine ski season took place on Saturday in Beaver Creek when the Austrian discipline World Cup winner Cornelia Hütter triumphed. The talented Styrian secured the victory in a top-class race and thus left the favorites Sofia Goggia from Italy and Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland. Hütter, who went into the race with the start number 11, only needed a little more than one and a half minutes to distance Goggia by 0.16 seconds and Gut-Behrami by 0.34 seconds. Her seventh World Cup victory and the third in the descent mark another highlight in her career after you won in Lake Louise in 2017 and in March this year in Saalbach, as Puls24 reports .

impressive performance by Ricarda Haaser

The second best ÖSV athlete, Ricarda Haaser, also surprised with a strong performance and took fifth place. With the start number 37, she was only 0.56 seconds behind Hütter, which shows a remarkable performance on the demanding "Birds of Prey" route. Hütter himself commented after the race: "I thought I had to pull myself together in the race because it doesn't care about what was in training." Her teammates Mirjam Puchner, Stephanie Venier and Nina Ortlieb also achieved respectable placements, but could not quite reach the top, such as 5min.at reports .

The competition was characterized by a high drama, especially as a Hütter presented their aggressive driving style after the initially strong performance of Goggia and Gut-Behrami, which cited the classification according to the first runs. In addition to the exciting race, Lindsey Vonn, the former dominant force in the ski circus, was as a forerunner on site and was satisfied with her comeback performance. The competition in Beaver Creek sets the course for exciting races in the coming season and offers the athletes the opportunity to demonstrate their shape.