Nina Ortlieb from Vorarlberg dominated the training for the downhill runs in Lake Louise on Tuesday at the start of the season for the speed races in the women’s Alpine Ski World Cup. With start number 24, the 26-year-old set a best time of 1:50.27 minutes, to which Ilka Stuhec from Slovenia and Corinne Suter from Switzerland came closest, just 0.94 seconds behind. The next Austrian, Christina Ager (4./+1.08), placed directly behind her.
Ortlieb is making her racing comeback in Canada after suffering severe knee injuries in January 2021. During a training fall in Crans-Montana, she tore an anterior cruciate ligament, inner ligament, lateral meniscus and patella in her right knee, missed the 2021 World Championships and this year’s Olympics and returned to Crans-Montana at the end of February, at least for the training sessions . Now she showed up in the first scan in 2022/23. With the Tyrolean Stephanie Venier (+1.44 seconds) and the Vorarlberg Ariane Rädler (+1.66) in sixth and eighth place, another ÖSV duo came from the West of the country in the top ten. The Olympic Super-G “silver” Mirjam Puchner (15th / +2.08) from Salzburg and Styrian Tamara Tippler (16th / +2.09) were still a little in touch with the top ten. Elisabeth Reisinger (21st/+2.25), Cornelia Hütter (23rd/+2.74), Ramona Siebenhofer (24th/+2.89), Nicole Schmidhofer (28th/+3.10), Christine Scheyer (31st / +3.35) and Nadine Fest (33rd / +3.61) did not make it into the top 20. The downhill runs in Lake Louise are scheduled for Friday (8:00 p.m. CET) and Saturday (8:30 p.m.), for Sunday (19.00) a Super-G. A downhill double on the Matterhorn was canceled at the beginning of November due to the weather.
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