Sawt Falasteen - Bassino wins second Crans-Montana downhill, Gut-Behrami third

NYSE - LSE
RIO 0.68% 83.73 $
NGG -3.33% 83.15 $
RELX -3.19% 40.17 $
BCC -5% 70.24 $
AZN -0.23% 186.43 $
CMSC -0.35% 20.05 $
GSK -0.16% 50.33 $
RBGPF 0% 75.17 $
BCE -1.9% 21.62 $
CMSD -0.1% 20.15 $
BTI -3.6% 60.89 $
BP -0.38% 44.53 $
RYCEF 0.3% 16.43 $
VOD -2.37% 15.58 $
JRI 1.81% 11.63 $
Bassino wins second Crans-Montana downhill, Gut-Behrami third
Bassino wins second Crans-Montana downhill, Gut-Behrami third / Photo: Fabrice COFFRINI - AFP

Bassino wins second Crans-Montana downhill, Gut-Behrami third

Italy's Marta Bassino emerged the surprise winner of the second World Cup downhill in 24 hours at Crans-Montana on Saturday.

Text size:

Bassino sealed her first World Cup win in the discipline at the main expense of her compatriot Federica Brignone, second at .54s.

In-form Swiss star Lara Gut-Behrami, who won Friday's downhill, had to settle for third at 1.11s.

Despite missing out on back-to-back downhills, Gut-Behrami still extended her lead in the overall standings.

The 32-year-old goes into Sunday's Super G at her home ski resort 165 points clear of Mikaela Shiffrin in the race for the large crystal globe awarded for the overall title.

Shiffrin, a five-time overall winner, is recovering from a left knee injury and is targeting a return to competition in early March.

Gut-Behrami, already on top of the overall, giant and super-G standings, also took command of the downhill table by 19 points from Sofia Goggia, whose season has ended prematurely with a broken leg.

Such has been the toll on the leading skiers this term that Goggia was one of six of the top 15 downhill racers absent from Crans-Montana.

J.Saleh--SF-PST