- Winning margin is closest in GS world championship history
- Swiss skier now has two golds at this year’s championship
Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami won the women’s giant slalom at the skiing world championships, while first-run leader Mikaela Shiffrin finished second.
Gut-Behrami beat the American by two-hundredths of a second, the smallest margin of victory in a giant slalom in world championship history. Katharina Liensberger of Austria was 0.09 behind for bronze. Nina O’Brien of the United States was second after the opening run but dropped to 10th.
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