Frenchwoman Romane Miradoli (27) won the first World Cup race of her career on Saturday at the super-G in Lenzerheide (Switzerland), ending a 17-year shortage for French skiers in speed.

Miradoli beat two of the stars of world skiing, the American Mikaela Shiffrin by 38/100 and the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, Olympic champion, by 88/100.

The Italian Federica Brignone, 9th, won the small specialty globe, before the last super-G in two weeks in Courchevel. 

17 years since a Frenchwoman won

Under the eyes of tennis legend Roger Federer, who came as a neighbor to the finish area, the skier from Flaine (Haute-Savoie) achieved the greatest performance of her career, she who had never done better than 5th on the world circuit.

It has been more than 17 years since a French woman won in speed at the World Cup, since Ingrid Jacquemod's success in the downhill of Santa Caterina (Italy) in January 2005. The last victory in the super-G , it was Carole Montillet at Haus im Ennst

“A podium, I've been thinking about it for many years, reacted the champion.

It's the most beautiful reward, after all the work done, after my personal problems (death of his companion in 2016), my injury also at the end of 2020, all this allowed me to rebuild myself.

Physically I'm stronger, mentally too, although there have been ups and downs this season.

But on a mental level the injury helped me to free myself up on the races.

Today, everything is aligned, the mental, the physical.

Victory will bring me confidence.

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