Lara Gut

Lara Gut




SI


Lara Gut (born April 27, 1991, in Sorengo, Ticino, Switzerland) is a World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in downhill and Super-G.
In December 2006, at age 15, Gut (pronounced Goot) participated in her first FIS races. At the Alpine Youth World Championship 2007 at Altenmarkt, Austria, she won silver in downhill. In the same year, she became Swiss national champion in Super-G, the second youngest champion of all time. In the 2007 season, Gut finished 2nd in the downhill standings of theEuropa Cup.
On December 28, 2007, Gut made her World Cup debut in a giant slalom at Lienz, Austria. In January 2008, at Caspoggio, Gut won four consecutive Europa Cup races. On February 2, 2008, at her first World Cup downhill race, Gut made the podium at third place at St. Moritz, despite falling on the finishing pitch and sliding on her back through the finish line. She finished only .35 seconds off of the winner. Gut followed her World Cup speed debut with a fifth place finish in the Super-G the next day.
Gut won her first World Cup race on December 20, 2008, a Super-G in St. Moritz. She finished 0.63 seconds ahead of second place finisher Fabienne Suter. She became the youngest ever skier to win a World Cup Super G race, at 17.65 years (17 years, 237 days).

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the Downhill and the super combined, achieved more than two months before her 18th birthday.
On September 29, 2009 while training in Saas Fee, Switzerland for the upcoming start of the World Cup season in October, Gut fell and dislocated her hip. She was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Visp, where it was reset. The Swiss Ski Federation reported that she would be out of competition for at least a month.

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