Siebenhofer follows up maiden World Cup win with another

BySportsbeat

Published 19/01/2019 at 12:21 GMT

Having finally tasted that winning feeling, Ramona Siebenhofer is refusing to let it go after claiming her second downhill World Cup victory in as many days in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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The 27-year-old alpine skier had never won a race in her 10-year World Cup career before this weekend – only ever achieving a podium finish twice – but has been unstoppable in Italy.

Following Friday's watershed triumph, she repeated the trick 24 hours later as she clocked an ultimately unbeatable time of 1:36.22.

Her Austrian compatriot Nicole Schmidhofer pushed her closest, finishing just 0.04 seconds behind to take silver.

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Slovenian skier Ilka Stuhec took third, 0.51s slower than the winner, and just pipped 22-year-old German Kira Weidle to bronze.

Siebenhofer's magical 24 hours, combined with Schmidhofer's pair of victories earlier in the campaign, means Austrian women have won four downhill races in a World Cup season for the first time since 2006-07.

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