Lara Gut-Behrami earns fifth career globe
Lara Gut-Behrami Méribel super-G: GEPA Photos
For the second time in three seasons, Switzerland’s 31-year-old Lara Gut-Behrami proved to be the World’s best female super-G skier. Gut-Behrami is known for her ability to see the demands of the course during the inspection and then precisely execute her race plan. She is a great skier who, during her career, has won 37 World Cups in four disciplines and achieved the overall title in 2016.
Gut-Behrami is second among all active female skiers on the wins list and tied for seventh all-time with Austria’s Marlies Schild.
Career World Cup victories
- During the 2022-23 season, Gut-Behrami increased her career World Cup victory total to 37
- She has won World Cup Downhills, super-Gs, giant slaloms, and an alpine combined
- The last World Cup slalom Gut-Behrami raced was in January 2017
- She has won World Cup Downhills, super-Gs, giant slaloms, and an alpine combined
Overall
- During the 2022-23 campaign, Gut-Behrami accumulated 1,217 World Cup points the third-highest total of her 16-year World Cup career.
- Gut-Berhrami ended the 2023 season ranked 2nd in the overall standings
- All of Gut-Behrami’s 2022-23 season points were accumulated in super-G, giant slalom and downhill
- Gut-Behrami earned 2022-23 victories in both super-G and giant slalom
- Gut-Behrami won the World Cup overall in 2016
Super-G
During the 2022-23 World Cup season, Gut-Behrami scored 413 super-G points and finished first in the season discipline standings; this year’s performance represented Gut-Behrami’s career-highest season super-G point total.
- Gut-Behrami achieved four 2022-23 World Cup super-G podiums
- Two of the season’s four super-G podiums were victories.
- Gut-Behrami has earned a career 33 World Cup super-G podiums
- 19 career World Cup super-G victories
- Four career World Cup super-G season titles
Giant slalom
Gut-Behrami scored 532 World Cup GS points during the 2022-23 season. It represents the most giant slalom points she has accumulated in a season. The second most was 472 points during her 2016 overall winning campaign.
- Gut-Behrami finished a career-best second in the 2022-23 World Cup giant slalom standings.
- She earned four 2022-23 World Cup giant slalom podiums
Downhill
By earning 272 downhill World Cup points, Gut-Berhami finished 6th in the 2023 discipline standings
- Gut-Behrami achieved her only 2022-23 downhill podium at the World Cup finals in Andorra.
- She earned a total of three top-five 2022-23 downhill finishes
- Gut-Behrami has achieved a career total 20 World Cup downhill podiums
2023 season Gut-Behrami highlight summary
- Gut-Behrami finished fourth in the 2023 women’s prize money standings with 314,230 (CHF) Swiss Francs or $342,000.
- Gut-Behrami is the 2023 World Cup super-G champion
- fourth super-G title of her career
- Nine 2022-23 World Cup podiums earned
- Two 2022-23 World Cup super-G victories
- One 2022-23 World Cup giant slalom victory
- She was fourth in the 2023 World Championship giant slalom
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