Schmidhofer Completes Lake Louise Downhill Double

Zeeshan Mehtab Published December 02, 2018 | 09:51 AM

Montreal, Dec 1 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Dec, 2018 ) :Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer notched her second World Cup downhill victory in as many days Saturday with another triumph at Lake Louise.

Schmidhofer, the 2017 super-G world champion who claimed the first World Cup victory of her career in the season's first downhill on Friday, backed up that performance at the Canadian resort with a victory in 1min 47.68sec.

She led an Austrian one-two ahead of Cornelia Hutter, who was 44-hundredths of a second back, with Switzerland's Michelle Gisin third, 47-hundredths adrift.

Austria had three skiers in the top six, with Ramona Siebenhofer sixth.

American Mikaela Shiffrin, who had her first win in a speed event last winter in Lake Louise, finished fourth.

The reigning world number one took the first two slaloms of the season at Levi and Killington and consolidated her lead in the overall standings.

With 389 points she owns a healthy lead over Gisin (233).

Competition concludes at Lake Louise on Sunday with a super-G.