Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women's Downhill - Saalbach, Austria - March 23, 2024 Austria's Cornelia Huetter celebrates on the podium with the crystal globe after winning the women's downhill overall REUTERS/Leonhard FoegerSAALBACH, Austria : Austria's Cornelia Huetter seized the women's downhill World Cup title in the final race of the season on home snow in Saalbach on Saturday, denying Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami a fourth crystal globe.
Huetter, who had been third overall and 72 points adrift of the Swiss going into the race, tore up the script with a lightning run down the Ulli Maier piste to win in one minute 45.08 seconds from 12th on the starting list. Slovenia's Ilka Stuhec finished second in the race, 0.17 slower than 31-year-old Huetter, with Italy's Nicol Delago third and 0.49 off the pace in warm conditions.
The downhill win was only the second of Huetter's World Cup career and the crystal globe was her first.
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