2023 Åre GS Podium: GEPA footage
Who’s snowboarding, when and learn how to watch the Saturday, March ninth girls’s Åre World Cup GS
The ladies’s World Cup GS journey so far has witnessed 9 girls’s World Cup GS races this season. Amongst them, Switzerland’s Lara Intestine-Behrami has earned victory in 4. Italy’s Federica Brignone, the one different contender for the title, has claimed two wins. Notably, Stifel US Ski Staff’s Mikaela Shiffrin and Canada’s Valérie Grenier every secured one victory, together with Sweden’s Olympic champion Sara Hector. Throughout the 9 races, 5 girls from 5 completely different international locations have emerged victorious.
Pleasure builds for Saturday’s closing regular-season GS race in Åre. It will set the stage for the Saalbach finals on March sixteenth, the place the highest 25 racers will vie for victory.
This pivotal race marks the fruits of the regular-season World Cup GS for girls. Switzerland’s Lara Intestine-Behrami stands poised to clinch the GS title. For a lot of racers, their efficiency on this occasion will decide their placement among the many prime 25 GS athletes of the season, incomes them a coveted spot within the World Cup finals.
Intestine-Behrami holds a commanding 135-point lead within the self-discipline standings with solely two GS races left within the season. Whereas Italy’s Federica Brignone trails in second place, the opportunity of overturning the deficit stays slim however not inconceivable within the dynamic realm of Alpine snowboarding. Notably, the winner of every race earns 100 factors, leaving no room for error, as failing to complete ends in zero factors. No different contenders stay in rivalry for the GS title.
It’s price noting that Mikaela Shiffrin of the Stifel US Ski Staff is about to return from harm, although she is going to solely compete in Sunday’s slalom occasion.
High-Ranked 2024 World Cup Big Slalom Ladies
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Fifty-two girls from 16 international locations are on the beginning checklist for the Åre Sweden Ladies World Cup GS Saturday, March ninth
Ladies’s World Cup GS Nations Cup
Within the girls’s GS Nations Cup standings, Italy at the moment leads with 1120 factors, adopted intently by Switzerland with 963 factors. The absence of Shiffrin from the GS occasion could present a chance for the Austrian staff, at the moment ranked fourth, to make vital positive aspects on the US staff, which sits in third place. Canada, ranked seventh, has collected a commendable complete of 419 factors.
Ladies’s GS Nations Cup standings
North People
Turning our focus to North American athletes, six girls have secured World Cup GS factors this season. Stifel US Ski Staff’s Mikaela Shiffrin leads the pack, who, regardless of her time away from competitors on account of harm, holds the 4th place within the season’s GS standings with 429 factors. Nevertheless, she is not going to ski this weekend’s GS.
Following intently is Canada’s Valérie Grenier, whose season-ending harm has sadly dominated her out of rivalry for the upcoming races. Grenier sits in sixth place with 327 factors, having secured one 2024 World Cup GS victory.
Stifel US Ski Staff’s AJ Harm has additionally made waves this season by incomes her first GS podium and enjoys her career-best rating of twelfth with 178 GS factors. Harm might be joined within the Åre GS by her teammate Paula Moltzan, at the moment ranked thirteenth.
The opposite North American girl who’s ranked among the many prime 25 and has earned her first invitation to the World Cup finals is Canadian Britt Richardson. Richardson, reigning FIS Junior World Ski GS champion, has showcased her distinctive GS expertise, incomes her an automated invitation to the finals. Together with her spectacular efficiency this season, she is more likely to additionally safe her spot among the many prime 25 on the finish of the common season, solidifying her presence among the many world’s elite racers.
Lastly, Cassidy Grey, one other promising North American expertise, goals to safe GS factors in Åre, rounding off a formidable season. Grey at the moment sits in forty first place with 17 factors, showcasing her potential within the sport.
North American Ladies with 2024 Big Slalom World Cup Factors
North People Competing within the Saturday, March ninth, Åre 2024 World Cup GS.
Bib 8, Paula Moltzan, Stifel USST, College of Vermont Ski and Snowboard Membership, Vail, Rossignol/LOOK, Stage Gloves, Oakley
Bib 14, AJ Harm, Stifel Stifel, Staff Palisades Tahoe, HEAD, Stage Gloves
Bib 24, Britt Richardson, ACA, Calgary Alpine Racing Membership, Dynastar, Lange, LOOK, Oakley, Stage Gloves
Bib 33, Cassidy Grey, ACA, Staff Panorama, Atomic, Stage Gloves
Bib 35, Arianne Overlook, Belle Neige, Atomic
Bib 49, Sarah Bennett, ACA, Membership de ski Stoneham, Québec Ski Staff, Rossignol, LOOK, Stage Gloves
When and How you can Watch the Åre GS
The ladies’s first GS run will start at 4:30 am Jap Time, 1:30 am Pacific Time and 10:30 Central European Time. The second run will begin at 7:30 am Jap Time, 4:30 am Pacific Time and 1:30 pm Central European Time.
In the USA watch the stay stream and replays on Ski & Snowboard Reside.
In Canada watch the stay stream and replays on CBC Sports activities
Begin checklist and program for Saturday, March ninth, Åre 2024 World Cup GS.
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Program for the Saturday, March ninth Åre GS
