Three wins, nine days, two disciplines. Alice Robinson won the St. Moritz super-G on Sunday in 1:14.84, 0.08 seconds ahead of Romane Miradoli. It was her seventh World Cup victory and the first of them that was not a giant slalom. No New Zealander had won a World Cup super-G.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap — super-G, St. Moritz, 14 Dec |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice RobinsonNZL | NZL | 1:14.84 |
| 2 | Romane MiradoliFRA | FRA | +0.08 |
| 3 | Sofia GoggiaITA | ITA | +0.19 |
| 4 | Lindsey VonnUSA | USA | +0.27 |
The nine days
| Date | Venue | Discipline | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Nov | Copper Mountain | GS | Won by 0.96 from Julia Scheib |
| 6 Dec | Tremblant | GS | Won by 0.94 from Zrinka Ljutić |
| 7 Dec | Tremblant | GS | Third, behind Julia Scheib and Sara Hector |
| 14 Dec | St. Moritz | SG | Won by 0.08 from Romane Miradoli |
The two giant slaloms were won by almost a second each, which in a modern women’s GS field means the race was over at the first split and stayed over. The super-G was won by eight hundredths on a 75-second course. Different problems, same nine days.
Why the super-G was the one that counted
Robinson had built a career on turning: six wins, all giant slaloms, and a run of podiums going back to her first in 2019. Corviglia is a super-G you can ski like a GS skier — it rewards carrying a high line through the long turns rather than straightlining and hoping — and she did. The three skiers behind her were Miradoli, Goggia and Vonn, with 0.27 covering first to fourth.
It was the first super-G of the season, held the day after Emma Aicher’s downhill win and two days after Vonn’s. Emma Aicher fell and was unhurt. Mikaela Shiffrin missed the last gate and skied out in her first super-G in two years, and said she was happy with 98 per cent of the run.
New Zealand’s record
The archive lists three New Zealand women with World Cup wins: Annelise Coberger (one, 1992), Claudia Riegler (four, 1996–97) and Robinson. With her St. Moritz win she stands on seven, the most by any New Zealander, and she is the only one of the three to have won in a speed discipline.
How the rest of the season went for her
- Three wins and seven podiums across giant slalom and super-G.
- Second in the super-G standings at the Olympic break, 60 points behind Sofia Goggia.
- Second to Aicher in the first Soldeu super-G in February, third in the Åre giant slalom in March.
Goggia took the super-G globe in the end. Robinson finished the winter as the only woman to win in two disciplines inside a fortnight.