Skiing news - Federica Brignone completes hat-trick in Alpine Combined at Crans-Montana
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ByEurosport
Updated 24/02/2019 at 17:06 GMT
Italian Federica Brignone won her third consecutive women's alpine combine in Crans-Montana after holding off the challenge of home favourite Roni Remme.
First placed Italys Federica Brignone (L) and second placed Canada's Roni Remme celebrate in the finishing area after competing in the two rounds of the Women's Alpine Combined race during the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, on February 24, 2019 in Crans-Montan
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The 28-year-old produced runs of 1:30.92 and 44.26 for an overall time of 2:15.20 minutes, with Remme 0.38 seconds behind her as she took the silver medal.
Swiss star Wendy Holdener took the final spot on the podium, with her overall time of 2:16.24 seeing her just edge out compatriot Rahel Kopp for the bronze.
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Brignone takes lead after Downhill leg of Alpine Combined
Brignone boosted her chances of a top-four finish in the overall standings with the victory, closing the gap on Nicole Schmidhofer – the downhill leaders – to just 35 points.
She faces a challenge to claim a podium finish, though, with Brignone more than 200 points behind Holdener, who defended her combined title at the World Championships earlier this month.
Remme's second-place finish in Crans-Montana was her first ever World Cup podium, while runaway overall leader Mikaela Shiffrin elected not to compete due to a severe chest cold.
Reporting via Reuters
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