Gut-Behrami wins super-g to move closer to overall World Cup title

Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami took another big step towards the overall World Cup title in alpine skiing on Saturday with victory in a super-g in Norway.

Gut-Behrami claimed her eighth season success and 45th overall in Kvitfjell to move 305 points clear of Shiffrin with seven races left.

Four-time overall champion Shiffrin has been sidelined with injury since January but there is speculation she could return next weekend for slalom and giant slalom races in Are, Sweden.

Gut-Behrami took the overall lead from Shiffrin during the American's absence, and added another 100 points in Kvitfjell where she edged Austrian Cornelia Hütter by 12 hundredths of a second. Mirjam Puchner, also of Austria, was another hundredths back in third.

The third super-g success of the campaign gave Gut-Behrami a 25-point lead over Hütter with two races left in the discipline. She could clinch the small crystal globe on Sunday in Kvitfjell.

Gut-Behrami also tops the downhill and giant slalom standings in what could be another trophy-laden campaign for her.

Kvitfjell was originally to stage a downhill on Saturday but adverse weather denied a mandatory training run. Instead, one of the two cancelled super-g races last weekend in Italy was staged.

The men were contesting a giant slalom later Saturday in Aspen, Colorado, where Swiss Marco Odermatt aims to stretch his unbeaten run in the discipline to 12 races.

Odermatt has already clinched the overall and discipline title, leads the downhill and super-g list, and with success on Saturday would tie the men's record of 13 overall victories in one season.