Alpine skiing-Goggia fastest in women's downhill training


FILE PHOTO Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Womens Alpine Combined - Meribel France - February 6 2023 Italys Sofia Goggia in action during the Super-G REUTERSDenis Balibouse

FILE PHOTO: Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women's Alpine Combined - Meribel, France - February 6, 2023 Italy's Sofia Goggia in action during the Super-G REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

(Reuters) - Downhill favourite Sofia Goggia led an Italian one-two in the first women's training run at the Alpine ski world championships in Meribel on Tuesday.

Goggia, the 2018 Olympic champion who missed the last worlds on home snow in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 2021 due to a knee injury, has won four World Cup downhills this season and was 0.26 seconds quicker than compatriot Elena Curtoni.

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