- Lara Gut
Lara Gut (born
27 April 1991 , pronounced "Goot") is a Swissalpine skier specialising indownhill andSuper-G .In December 2006, at age 15, Gut participated in her first FIS races. At the Alpine Youth World Championship 2007 at Altenmarkt, she won silver in downhill. In the same year, she became Swiss champion in Super-G, the second youngest champion of all time. In the 2006/2007 season, Gut finished 2nd in the downhill standings of the Europa Cup.
On
December 28 ,2007 , she participated in her first World Cup race, the Giant Slalom atLienz . In January 2008, atCaspoggio , Gut won four consecutive Europa Cup races. On2 February ,2008 , at her firstAlpine skiing World Cup downhill race, Gut won the third place atSt. Moritz , followed by a fifth in theSuper G the next day.External links
* [http://www.laragut.ch/ Website of Lara Gut]
*FIS|S=AL|ID=125871
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