Schild paces training

Women's overall World Cup leader Schild clocked one minute 23.20 seconds on the 'Silvano Beltrametti' course on Tuesday, 0.38 faster than team mate and downhill champion Renate Goetschl.

"The course is very bumpy and technically demanding, but I feel good about it," Schild told reporters. "I'm happy to have been so fast today, I had my problems yesterday so I wanted to get going today," added the 25-year-old slalom and super-combined World Cup champion, who was seventh in a downhill at Tarvisio two weeks ago.

Austrian Andrea Fischbacher had the third fastest time of 1:23.78, ahead of Germany's Maria Riesch and Nicole Hosp, who is second in the overall standings, 15 points adrift of Schild.

Julia Mancuso, aiming to become the first American woman since Tamara McKinney in 1983 to win the overall title, unofficially clocked the fourth best time but missed one of the last gates.

Junior world champion Tina Weirather, daughter of Liechtenstein's 1980 double Olympic champion Hanni Wenzel, and Swiss Monika Dumermuth both crashed in training and were taken to hospital.