Gut adds Super-G title to overall World Cup

ByReuters

Published 17/03/2016 at 13:56 GMT

Switzerland's Lara Gut added the women's Super-G World Cup title to the overall crystal globe she had already captured after finishing second in the final speed race of the season on Thursday.

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The race was won by Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather, her second victory of the season in the discipline, with Austrian Cornelia Huetter third.

Gut needed a top-six finish on home snow to be sure of overtaking American Lindsey Vonn, whose season was ended early by a knee injury, and clinched the title for the second time in her career.

Second place left the 24-year-old Swiss on 481 points to Weirather's 436 and 420 for Vonn.

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"The last times everybody was just talking about the overall and I was really fighting against that because I wanted to ski fast in the races," Gut told Eurosport.

"Everyone was just like (saying) 'Yeah, you have the overall, be happy.' Now I am happy.

"It was good. It wasn't the best super-G I did but it was already good and I have the little one (globe) so that's nice."

In the overall World Cup standings, Gut has 1,462 points to Vonn's 1,235 with two races, a slalom and giant slalom, remaining at the weekend for a maximum of 200 points.

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