Lara Gut-Behrami

Lara Gut-Behrami
	Gut-Behrami in 2019
Personal information
Born	27 April 1991 (age 33); Sorengo, Switzerland
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
Club	Sporting Gottardo
World Cup debut	28 December 2007 (age 16)
Website	laragut.ch
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2014, 2018, 2022)
Medals	3 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	8 – (2009–2023)
Medals	8 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	16 – (2008–2009, 2011–2024)
Wins	45 – (22 SG, 13 DH, 9 GS, 1 AC)
Podiums	90 – (39 SG, 23 DH, 25 GS, 2 AC, 1 PG)
Overall titles	2 – (2016, 2024)
Discipline titles	6 – (SG – 2014, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2024, GS – 2024)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Switzerland
World Cup race podiums
International competitions
Olympic Games
World Championships
Junior World Championships

Lara Gut-Behrami (née Gut; Italian pronunciation: [ˈlaːra ˈɡut]; born 27 April 1991) 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. With 45 World Cup victories to her name across 3 disciplines, she is one of the all-time greats in Alpine skiing.

Career

Gut in downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in January 2017

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.^[1] Gut participated in her first FIS races at age 15 in December 2006. At the Alpine Youth World Championship 2007 at Altenmarkt, Austria, she won silver in 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.

In late December 2007, Gut made her World Cup debut in a giant slalom at Lienz, Austria. 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.

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.^[2] Gut became the youngest skier to win a World Cup super-G race at 17.65 years (17 years, 237 days).^[3]

At the 2009 World Championships at Val-d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the downhill and the super combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.

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.^[4] In January 2010, it was announced that Gut would miss the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver because of a slow recovery from a hip injury.^[5] She sat out the entire 2010 season but returned for the 2011 season and earned four podiums, which included a victory in the super-G at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in January.

Gut switched ski suppliers following the 2011 season, leaving Atomic for a three-year deal with Rossignol.^[6] 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.

In December 2012, Gut won her first World Cup downhill in Val-d'Isère, France.^[7] She finished ahead of American Leanne Smith (0.16 sec) and fellow Swiss skier Nadja Kamer (0.5 sec).

Gut won her first Olympic medal in the downhill in 2014 at Sochi. She took the bronze, finishing 0.10 seconds behind Tina Maze and fellow Swiss skier Dominique Gisin, who both won the gold.^[8] In World Cup, she won the super-G season title and finished third overall in 2014.

After four years with Rossignol, Gut changed to Head equipment in May 2015.^[9]

At the World Championships in 2017 on home country snow in St. Moritz, Gut won bronze in the super-G. In the next event, the combined, she injured her left knee (ACL, meniscus) between runs, which ended her season.^[10]

In February 2020, Gut won her first race in over two years, the World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.^[11]

In the 2020–2021 season, she had one of the most successful showings of her career thus far, winning 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 and bronze in the downhill. With only a single giant slalom podium on the World Cup that season, she became somewhat of a surprise winner in the giant slalom, with reigning Olympic Champion Mikaela Shiffrin having two strong runs and many of the top performers from the World Cup displaying poor performances; however, Gut-Behrami still prevailed to win the giant slalom by .02 in what was the closest giant slalom in world championship history. She became the second Swiss woman to win two golds in a single championship and the first in 34 years following Erika Hess’ strong showing in 1987.

Personal life

Gut is fluent in Italian, German, French, and English and knows Spanish.^[12]^[13]^[14]

She married Swiss football player Valon Behrami in July 2018,^[15] and has since competed using the double-barrelled name Gut-Behrami.^[16]

World Cup results

Season titles

8 titles – (2 Overall, 5 Super-G, 1 Giant Slalom)

	Season
	Season	Discipline
	2014	Super-G
	2016	Overall
	2016	Super-G
	2021	Super-G
	2023	Super-G
	2024	Overall
		Giant Slalom
		Super-G

Season standings

Season
Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2008	16	54	—	—	26	30	—
2009	17	11	45	9	11	12	16
2010	18	injured in September: out for entire season
2011	19	10	—	28	4	7	30
2012	20	14	—	17	8	18	30
2013	21	9	—	6	10	5	4
2014	22	3	—	4	1	6	15
2015	23	9	—	24	5	6	—
2016	24	1	43	3	1	4	2
2017	25	4	57	5	3	3	—
2018	26	12	—	23	2	10	24
2019	27	21	—	26	7	18	—
2020	28	7	—	14	4	4	—
2021	29	2	—	7	1	3	—
2022	30	11	—	13	6	15
2023	31	2	—	2	1	6
2024	32	1	—	1	1	2

Standings through 23 March 2024

Race victories


	Total	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined	Parallel
Wins	45	0	9	22	13	1	0
Podiums	90	0	25	39	23	2	1

Season
Season	Date	Location	Discipline
2009 1 victory (1 SG)	20 December 2008	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super-G
2011 1 victory (1 SG)	9 January 2011	Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria	Super-G
2013 1 victory (1 DH)	14 December 2012	Val-d'Isère, France	Downhill
2014 7 victories (4 SG, 2 DH, 1 GS)	26 October 2013	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom
	29 November 2013	Beaver Creek, USA	Downhill
	30 November 2013	Beaver Creek, USA	Super-G
	8 December 2013	Lake Louise, Canada	Super-G
	26 January 2014	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Super-G
	12 March 2014	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Downhill
	13 March 2014	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Super-G
2015 2 victories (1 SG, 1 DH)	7 December 2014	Lake Louise, Canada	Super-G
2015 2 victories (1 SG, 1 DH)	24 January 2015	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Downhill
2016 6 victories (1 SG, 2 DH, 2 GS, 1 AC)	27 November 2015	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom
	18 December 2015	Val-d'Isère, France	Combined
	19 December 2015	Val-d'Isère, France	Downhill
	28 December 2015	Lienz, Austria	Giant slalom
	7 February 2016	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Super-G
	19 February 2016	La Thuile, Italy	Downhill
2017 5 victories (3 SG, 1 DH, 1 GS)	22 October 2016	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom
	4 December 2016	Lake Louise, Canada	Super-G
	18 December 2016	Val d'Isère, France	Super-G
	22 January 2017	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Super-G
	28 January 2017	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill
2018 1 victory (1 SG)	21 January 2018	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Super-G
2020 2 victories (2 DH)	21 February 2020	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Downhill
2020 2 victories (2 DH)	22 February 2020	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Downhill
2021 6 victories (4 SG, 2 DH)	10 January 2021	St. Anton, Austria	Super-G
	24 January 2021	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Super-G
	30 January 2021	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Super-G
	1 February 2021	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Super-G
	26 February 2021	Val di Fassa, Italy	Downhill
	27 February 2021	Val di Fassa, Italy	Downhill
2022 2 victory (1 SG, 1 DH)	11 December 2021	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super-G
2022 2 victory (1 SG, 1 DH)	15 January 2022	Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria	Downhill
2023 3 victories (2 SG, 1 GS)	26 November 2022	Killington, USA	Giant slalom
	15 January 2023	St. Anton, Austria	Super-G
	16 March 2023	Soldeu, Andorra	Super-G
2024 8 victories (3 SG, 1 DH, 4 GS)	28 October 2023	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom
	25 November 2023	Killington, USA	Giant slalom
	14 January 2024	Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria	Super-G
	28 January 2024	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Super-G
	30 January 2024	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom
	10 February 2024	Soldeu, Andorra	Giant slalom
	16 February 2024	Crans-Montana, Switzerland	Downhill
	2 March 2024	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G

World Championship results

Year
Year	Age	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2009	17	—	DNF1	7	2	2
2011	19	—	20	4	4	DNF2
2013	21	—	7	2	16	DNF2
2015	23	—	DNF1	7	3	5
2017	25	—	—	3	—	DNS2
2019	27	—	21	9	8	DNS2
2021	29	—	1	1	3	—
2023	31	—	4	6	9	DNS2

Injured between runs of Combined event in 2017

Olympic results

Year
Year	Age	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2010	18	injured: did not compete
2014	22	—	9	4	3	DNF2
2018	26	—	DNF1	4	DNF	—
2022	30	—	3	1	16	—

References

^ Sokolovskaya, Yanina (6 February 2013). "Lara Gut, stella d'argento che fa risplendere Zone" (in Italian). Bresciaoggi. Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ "St Moritz: Swiss teen Gut notches first win". skiracing.com. 20 December 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
^ "World Cup Women's RacesAge Stats – > 1970". SKI-DB. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
^ Skionline.ch
^ "Injury forces Switzerland's Lara Gut out of Vancouver Olympics". USA Today. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
^ Ski Racing.com – Swiss star Lara Gut moves to Rossignol equipment – 6 April 2011.
^ "Alpine Skiing".
^ "Alpine Skiing: Events & Places". Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
^ "Lara Gut signs with Head". SkiRacing.com. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^ Bonesteel, Matt (10 February 2017). "Defending World Cup ski champion Lara Gut tears ACL, but she should be back for Olympics". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Gut-Behrami kehrt auf Siegerstraße zurück (in German)". orf.at. 21 February 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
^ #Q1 – How did you learn languages? – Exclusive interview with Lara Gut. (in German)^{[dead YouTube link]}
^ Lara Gut, l'ultima festa stagionale (in Italian), 4 May 2016, archived from the original on 21 December 2021
^ Lara Gut: "vivre et laisser vivre" (in French), 18 January 2016, archived from the original on 21 December 2021
^ "Lara Gut und Valon Behrami haben geheiratet". tele1.ch (in German).
^ GUT-BEHRAMI Lara

External links

Official website
Lara Gut-Behrami at FIS (alpine)
Lara Gut-Behrami at Olympics.com
Lara Gut-Behrami at Olympedia
Lara Gut-Behrami at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
Lara Gut-Behrami at the Swiss Olympic Association (in German)
Lara Gut-Behrami at the Swiss Ski Team Archived 15 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

[1] Sokolovskaya, Yanina (6 February 2013). "Lara Gut, stella d'argento che fa risplendere Zone" (in Italian). Bresciaoggi. Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

[2] "St Moritz: Swiss teen Gut notches first win". skiracing.com. 20 December 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2009.

[3] "World Cup Women's RacesAge Stats – > 1970". SKI-DB. Retrieved 17 January 2009.

[4] Skionline.ch

[5] "Injury forces Switzerland's Lara Gut out of Vancouver Olympics". USA Today. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2010.

[6] Ski Racing.com – Swiss star Lara Gut moves to Rossignol equipment – 6 April 2011.

[7] "Alpine Skiing".

[8] "Alpine Skiing: Events & Places". Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.

[lgswhd-9] "Lara Gut signs with Head". SkiRacing.com. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.

[wpgo17-10] Bonesteel, Matt (10 February 2017). "Defending World Cup ski champion Lara Gut tears ACL, but she should be back for Olympics". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[11] "Gut-Behrami kehrt auf Siegerstraße zurück (in German)". orf.at. 21 February 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

[12] #Q1 – How did you learn languages? – Exclusive interview with Lara Gut. (in German)^{[dead YouTube link]}

[13] Lara Gut, l'ultima festa stagionale (in Italian), 4 May 2016, archived from the original on 21 December 2021

[14] Lara Gut: "vivre et laisser vivre" (in French), 18 January 2016, archived from the original on 21 December 2021

[15] "Lara Gut und Valon Behrami haben geheiratet". tele1.ch (in German).

[16] GUT-BEHRAMI Lara

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