Fenninger captures overall World Cup
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ANNA Fenninger of Austria clinched her first overall World Cup title yesterday by placing second in a super-G won by Lara Gut of Switzerland.
Fenninger built a 215-point lead over Gut with two races remaining this weekend in the Swiss resort of Lenzerheide and cannot be caught. “It’s unbelievable, it’s the greatest,” she said.
Fenninger’s path to the title was eased when her closest challenger, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, sustained season-ending injuries after crashing in the downhill on Wednesday.
Gut won for the second straight day to clinch the super-G title, a first career World Cup trophy for the 22-year-old.
She timed 1 minute, 17.14 seconds down the sunbathed course, 0.61 seconds faster than Fenninger. Tina Maze of Slovenia, the defending overall champion, trailed Gut by 0.95 in third.
Fenninger, 24, finished second in the downhill standings, behind Hoefl-Riesch, and to Gut in super-G. She also stands second in the giant slalom points race behind Jessica Lindell-Vikarby of Sweden. The final GS race closes the season on Sunday.
By then, Austria hopes Marcel Hirscher will have clinched the men’s overall title to give the Alpine nation its first double success since 2002 as Aksel Lund Svindal all but conceded the overall title yesterday after failing to score points in a super-G surprisingly won by Alexis Pinturault of France.
Hirscher placed 12th in a rare super-G start as Svindal — who already won the season-long discipline title — finished 16th.
Hirscher, the two-time defending overall champion, earned 22 points and now trails Norway’s Svindal by only 19 with his best events to come.
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