By Canadian Press

Sofia Goggia claims season-opening women’s World Cup downhill in Lake Louise

Dec 2, 2022 | 1:39 PM

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. — Sofia Goggia of Italy won the women’s season-opening World Cup downhill Friday in Lake Louise, Alta.

Goggia swept last year’s races at the Banff National Park resort, winning both downhills and a super-G en route to winning the season’s World Cup downhill title.

She edged reigning Olympic downhill champion Corinne Suter of Switzerland by just four hundredths of a second Friday.

Cornelia Huetter of Austria was six hundredths of a second back of Goggia in third.

Marie-Michele Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que., was 24th.

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Another downhill is scheduled for Saturday followed by Sunday’s super-G. The race was held under cloudy skies and a temperature of minus-19 C.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 2, 2022.

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