Robinson makes strong start to World Ski Championships
Alice Robinson. Photo: Salomon Alpine
Alice Robinson has made a strong start to her 2023 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships campaign, claiming a seventh-place finish in the Super G overnight NZT.
The race was held on the Le Roc De Fer in Méribel with perfect weather conditions and the 21-year-old Queenstown skier was on top form.
Starting in bib 30 Robinson flew out of the start gate and had an incredibly fast top section, leading the race through the first three splits. The current podium nervously watched from the bottom, visibly aware that Robinson was a real threat to the podium.
Robinson lost a few tenths of a second in the bottom section of the course, which was starting to show some signs of deterioration in the midday sun, finishing in a very respectable seventh place just +0.54 seconds behind the winner and +0.21 seconds off the podium.
Marta Bassino of Italy took her first Super G Alpine World Ski Championships win, marking just the second time an Italian woman has taken the title. Alpine ski racing legend Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA claimed second place with Cornelia Huetter of Austria and Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway rounding out the podium in third equal.
It’s a big week for Robinson at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, we will see her in action again this coming weekend in Downhill and in Giant Slalom on Thursday, 16 February.
