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Viktoria Rebensburg and Sofia Goggia suffered season-ending injuries on Sunday after heavy falls in the women’s super-G World Cup race in Garmisch-Partenkirche,won by Corinne Suter.<\/p>\n
Switzerland’s Suter, who finished fifth in Saturday’s downhill won by Germany’s Rebensburg, clocked 1min 19.46sec down the testing Kandahar course.<\/p>\n
Austria’s Nicole Schmidhofer was second at 0.43sec back with Swiss Wendy Holdener third at 0.70.<\/p>\n
“I’m very happy with the performance, but it wasn’t free of mistakes. It was very icy and difficult on the course,” said Suter.<\/p>\n
The pre-race favourite, the super-G standings leader Federica Brignone of Italy, finished fifth at 0.90sec back.<\/p>\n
Overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin was absent in Garmisch following the death of her father last week.<\/p>\n
After finishing second in Saturday’s downhill, Brignone, who is second in the overall rankings, has now trimmed Shiffrin’s lead to 145 points.<\/p>\n
This was Suter’s second World Cup win of the season after winning the downhill in Altenmarkt, Austria, last month.<\/p>\n
Despite racing under clear-blue skies, the course was especially testing having iced up overnight following mild day-time conditions in the Bavarian Alps.<\/p>\n
Ester Ledecka, the Czech Republic’s reigning 2018 Olympic super-G champion, could only manage 17th, 2.06sec behind Suter.<\/p>\n
The Kandahar proved too much for local favourite Rebensburg, who suffered a knee injury, and Olympic downhill champion Goggia, who broke her arm.<\/p>\n
After claiming the first downhill win of her career 24 hours before, giant slalom specialist Rebensburg was the victim of a heavy fall on the mid-section nicknamed ‘Hell’.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old lost control of her outside ski on a turn and crashed into the safety netting.<\/p>\n
Although she was able to ski down, a hospital scan revealed a compression fracture in her left knee and ligament damage, the German Ski Association (DSV) announced.<\/p>\n
“It’s bitter news that the season is over for me,” said Rebensburg in a statement.<\/p>\n
“I had a bit of luck in my bad luck as all ligaments are intact and I am confident I will be skiing again soon once my rebah is over.”<\/p>\n
Italy’s Goggia broke her left arm, which struck a gate, after also falling in the mid-section, and is ruled out for at least the next six weeks.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old was in visible distress after her upper body took the brunt of a crash into one of the plastic gates on the piste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n