Top 10 Remarkable Facts about Lara Gut-Behrami

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Top 10 Remarkable Facts about Lara Gut-Behrami 

Lara Gut-Behrami was born on 27 April 1991. She is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She won the gold medal in the Super-G event at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Lara Gut is fluent in Italian, German, French, and English, and she also knows Spanish. From the 2019 season has competed using the double-barrelled name Gut-Behrami. In the article are the top ten remarkable facts about Lara Gut-Behrami.

1. Gut was born in Sorengo, Canton Ticino

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Sorengo is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Gut was born in Sorengo, Canton Ticino; her father, Pauli Gut, is Swiss from Airolo, and her mother, Gabriella Almici, a masseuse, was born in Zone, Lombardy. So, Gut is a Swish by birth.

2. Gut became the second youngest champion of all time in 2007

Gut participated in her first FIS race at age 15 in December 2006. At the Alpine Youth World Championship 2007 at Altenmarkt, Austria, she won silver the downhill.

In the same year, she became the Swiss national champion in super-G, the second youngest champion of all time. In the 2007 season, Gut finished second in the downhill standings of the Europa Cup.

3. Gut made her World Cup in 2007

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In late December 2007, Gut made her World Cup debut in giant slalom at Lienz, Australia. If you never heard of the Giant slalom (GS), it is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline.

It involves skiing between sets of poles (“gates”) spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up the technical events in alpine ski racing.

4. Gut qualified for the 2009 World Cup team smoothly

In January 2008, at Caspoggio, she won four consecutive Europa Cup races. At her first World Cup downhill race on 2 February 2008, Gut made the podium in third place at St. Moritz, despite falling on the finishing pitch and sliding on her back through the finish line; she finished only 0.35 seconds behind the winner.

She followed her World Cup speed debut with a fifth-place finish in the super-G the next day. Following the 2008 season, Gut was moved up to the World Cup team for the 2009 season.

5. Gut beat Fabienne Suter to win the 2008 World Cup

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Fabienne Suter is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. Born in Sattel in the canton of Schwyz, she specialized in super-G, giant slalom, and downhill.

So, early in her first full season, Gut won her first World Cup race on 20 December 2008, a super-G in St. Moritz, finishing 0.63 seconds ahead of runner-up Fabienne Suter. Gut became the youngest skier to win a World Cup super-G race, at 17 years, 237 days.

6. Gut missed the 2010 Olympic Games because of a hip injury

On 29 September 2009, Gut fell during training at Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and dislocated her hip. She was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Visp, where it was reset. The Swiss Ski Federation initially reported that Gut would be out of competition for at least a month.

In January 2010, it was announced that Gut would miss the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver because of a slow recovery from the hip injury. She sat out the entire 2010 season. This was a major setback for her as long as her to-be records were concerned.

7. Gut had a slow catch because of the hip injury

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Gut returned for the 2011 season and earned four podiums, which included a victory in the super-G at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in January. She then switched ski suppliers following the 2011 season, leaving Atomic for a three-year deal with Rossignol.

Though she had seven top ten finishes in three disciplines during the 2012 World Cup season, she did not reach a podium; her best results were three top-five finishes. The not-well-off results were attributed to the previous knee injury that she suffered during the training session in 2009.

8. Gut won her first World Cup downhill in Val-d’Isère in 2012

In December 2012, Gut won her first World Cup downhill in Val-d’Isère, France.[7] She finished ahead of American Leanne Smith, a World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States, who specializes in speed events, and fellow Swiss skier Nadja Kamer, a World Cup alpine ski racer who specializes in the speed events of Downhill with five World Cup podiums, all in downhill.

Gut defeated the two World cup skiing legends in the 2012 Worl Cup that was held in France. She defeated Leanne Smith in a time margin of 0.16 seconds and Nadja Kamer at a time margin of 0.5 seconds.

9. Gut won her first Olympic medal in the downhill in 2014

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She took the bronze, finishing 0.10 seconds behind Tina Maze, the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

She also finished behind her fellow Swiss skier Dominique Gisin, now a retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Switzerland, who both won the gold. In World Cup, Gut won the Super-G season title and finished third overall in 2014.

10. Gut had the most successful showings of her career in the 2020-21 season

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She won four consecutive Super-G races on the World Cup while also entering a close battle for the overall lead with Petra Vlhová. She continued her successful season at the World Championships in Cortina D’Ampezzo.

In the Super-G she delivered on the promise displayed on the World Cup, winning her first world title there in addition to bronze in the downhill.