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Worley pips Shiffrin for GS gold
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TESSA Worley won her second gold medal at the Alpine skiing world championship in St Moritz, Switzerland, yesterday as she took the women’s giant slalom by storm having being part of the French squad that won Tuesday’s team event.
Worley, the first-leg pace setter, produced a pair of superb runs on a deteriorating course to finish 0.34 seconds ahead of American Mikaela Shiffrin, with Sofia Goggia taking the bronze medal.
Goggia’s accomplishment was Italy’s first podium finish at the championship, which continues with the men’s giant slalom today.
Having missed the 2014 Winter Olympic Games with a serious knee injury which also cut short her World Cup season the same year, Worley finished top after the first leg and fended off the challengers in the second.
With warm weather making the course tougher for the top contenders in the second leg, Worley recovered from a slight glitch in the top section and pressed hard throughout to cross the finish line in pole position.
“The pressure was pretty high before the second run but I managed to go to the end and win it,” a delighted Worley told the race organizers.
“I knew just a small mistake like this could be fatal and I just told myself to push harder and it was enough.”
Overall World Cup leader Shiffrin was third after the first leg but leap-frogged Goggia into the silver medal position with a strong second run.
“I wasn’t sure I could make up all the time on Tessa,” Shiffrin told Swiss broadcaster SRF.
“She deserved to win. I was really much happier with my second run.”
The silver medal was the 21-year-old American’s first in giant slalom. She will start as the favorite for her third straight slalom world title tomorrow.
Goggia redeemed herself four days after being in tears when losing her shot at the downhill title with a big mistake near the finish.
In Sunday’s downhill, the 24-year-old Italian recovered but still finished 0.07 behind bronze medalist Lindsey Vonn of the United States.
Defending champion Ana Veith finished a disappointing 22nd yesterday and Michaela Kirchgasser, who won bronze in the combined event, came in 12th on a tough day for the Austrians as their less fancied compatriot Stephanie Brunner was the nation’s top performer of the day with a fifth-placed finish.
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