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Sofia Goggia started fast in the 2022/2023 FIS World Cup downhill title race to claim back-to-back victories in Lake Louise as Marco Odermatt secured two Beaver Creek podium places and Japan's Anri Kawamura earned a moguls podium in Finland.
Here is all you need to know:
- Goggia powered down the Lake Louise downhill course on Friday in a time of 1:47.81 to edge out Switzerland's Corinne Suter by 0.04s and Austrian Cornelia Hütter by 0.06s for her first 2022/2023 season victory.
- The Italian followed up on Saturday - where the start of the course was lowered down the hill due to unsafe wind conditions - with an even more impressive victory in a time of 1:28.96 to defeat Austrian Nina Ortlieb by 0.34s with Suter banking another podium back in third 0.37s behind.
- The two wins and fifth place in Sunday's Super G - where Kiwi Alice Robinson finished 18th - leaves Goggia 60 points clear of Suter in the early downhill standings and 20 points behind American Mikaela Shiffrin in the overall standings heading into Sestriere next weekend.
- Three-time FIS World Cup downhill champion Goggia, 30, said: "Today (Saturday) was a quite perfect run. There was a lot of wind at the start. We had to be focused and committed today. I skied the perfect run I wanted to in my head. The last two years were unbelievable for me here. Here I broke my knee in 2013 and in 2016 got my first podium in the speed circuit here. And now winning five in a row is incredible."
- Switzerland's Odermatt finished second behind main rival Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in the Beaver Creek downhill on Saturday as Canadian James Crawford rounded out the podium in third.
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- Odermatt was only 0.06s behind the Norwegian as Italian Dominik Paris ended in 20th, German Thomas Dressen 24th, Frenchman Alexis Pinturault 33rd and Swiss Loïc Meillard 45th.
- On Sunday, Kilde got the better of Odermatt again to clinch the Super G win with the Swiss second 0.20s behind and Pinturault back to his usual form with an excellent third place 0.30s back.
- Paris finished in 32nd, Meillard 33rd and Dressen 37th with Kilde's two victories cutting Odermatt's FIS World Cup overall lead to 40 points with Kilde holding a 60-point lead over Odermatt in the downhill standings and the pair tied at the top of the Super G standings with 180 points.
- In the women's moguls on Saturday at Ruka in Finland, Japan's Anri Kawamura scored 78.33 to finish third behind winner Jakara Anthony of Australia and Perrine Laffont of France in second.
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