Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
The race finished with 10 skiers still waiting to descend the Kandahar course after Federica Sosio became the seventh competitor to crash after a jump. The 24-year-old Sosio was taken to the local hospital by helicopter.
The Italian team said Sosio suffered a broken left leg. Federica Brignone, another to crash at the same spot, was also hospitalized but tests showed no damage to her right knee.
Goggia said her own successful return from injury was overshadowed by Sosio’s injury.
“One of my teammates got injured, so I have lots of emotions. One is my result, my performance, and the pain and the sadness from this crash,” Goggia said. “It’s always sad.”
Venier finished 0.25 seconds quicker than Goggia, who was also second in Saturday’s super-G. Goggia was competing for the first time since she broke a bone in her right ankle while training in October.
Kira Weidle delighted home fans by finishing third, 0.54 seconds behind. She was ahead of Swiss skier Corinne Suter, who was fastest in the first training run Thursday, and Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec, who will defend her world title in downhill at the world championships in Are, Sweden next month.
Venier was third in a downhill at Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy the previous weekend.
German Wins Super-G
Kitzbuehel, Austria
His win on Sunday came 40 years after his father, Sepp Ferstl, won back-to-back downhills at the same resort.
Starting first, Ferstl clocked 1 minute, 13.07 seconds on the 2.1-kilometer Streifalm course, a time that remained unmatched by all pre-race favorites.
France’s Johan Clarey was 0.08 behind in second, and Italy’s Dominik Paris was two-hundredths further back in third. Paris had won the downhill race here Friday.
Austrians Vincent Kriechmayr and Matthias Mayer placed fourth and fifth, respectively.
Aksel Lund Svindal, who led the super-G standings before the race, didn’t compete because of a knee injury. The Norwegian announced that he will retire after the world championships in February.