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Italy’s Bassino beats Shiffrin to gold in super-G at worlds

Feb 7, 2023, 2:00 PM | Updated: Feb 8, 2023, 5:29 am

Italy's Marta Bassino celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Championships s...

Italy's Marta Bassino celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

(AP Photo/Marco Trovati)


              French air force's aerobatics squad "Patrouille de France" (PAF) perform ahead of an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
            
              Austria's Cornelia Huetter speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
            
              Austria's Cornelia Huetter celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
            
              United States' Mikaela Shiffrin concentrates prior to an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
            
              Italy's Marta Bassino speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
            
              Italy's Marta Bassino speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
            
              Italy's Marta Bassino celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

MERIBEL, France (AP) — Marta Bassino beat Mikaela Shiffrin to win the women’s super-G on Wednesday and give Italy its second gold medal at the Alpine skiing world championships, with her American rival settling for silver.

Shiffrin led Bassino by three-tenths of a second at the second split but couldn’t match the Italian’s pace in the last part of the Roc de Fer course and finished second, 0.11 seconds behind.

Cornelia Huetter of Austria and Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway both came 0.33 behind to share the bronze medal.

The silver is Shiffrin’s 12th medal in 15 career world championship races and came two days after the American was heading for a possible medal in the combined event before straddling the third-to-last gate in the slalom portion. Federica Brignone won that race.

Bassino earned her second gold after winning the parallel event at her home worlds two years ago. She became the second Italian skier to win the women’s super-G world title, after Isolde Kostner won back-to-back golds in the mid-1990s.

Bassino is yet to win a super-G on the World Cup circuit, but did finish third in two races in January.

Many pre-race favorites, including defending and Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami and her Swiss teammate Corinne Suter, led Bassino by several tenths of a second before losing substantial time in the technically demanding middle section of the course, which was partly shadowed.

Bassino’s teammate Sofia Goggia, the Olympic downhill champion, finished 0.76 behind in 11th. Goggia is a favorite to make it three golds from three races for the Italian women’s team in Saturday’s downhill.

American racer Tricia Mangan skied through a gate and had a nasty crash which broke her right ski, but she appeared to not be seriously hurt.

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