Ninth in the standings one year ago, Lara Gut‘s second career resurgence resulted in the first World Cup overall title for a Swiss woman in 21 years.
Gut clinched the biggest prize in Alpine skiing this season, with no Olympics or World Championships, when German Viktoria Rebensburg skied out of the World Cup Finals downhill in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Gut then finished 13th, while Austrian Mirjan Puchner notched a shocking victory after coming into the day with a best World Cup finish of eighth.
Gut’s path to become the first Swiss woman to take the crystal globe since Vreni Schneiderin 1995 was cleared by season-ending crashes to other skiers.