Switzerland's Corinne Suter won the women's alpine skiing downhill final Tuesday (Monday ET) at Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre for her first gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
OlympicsSwiss alpine skier Corinne Suter takes the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gold</a> in the women’s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlpineSkiing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AlpineSkiing</a> downhill event.<br><br>Congratulations on her first Olympic medal!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Beijing2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Beijing2022</a> <a href="https://t.co/qicBiaWrTw">pic.twitter.com/qicBiaWrTw</a>
Suter raced down the piste in a time of 1:31:87 to top Italy's Sofia Goggia, who won the event at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. Goggia finished second with a time of 1:32:03, just 16-hundredths of a second behind Suter, to capture silver.