Alice Robinson reacts in the finish area after competing in the women’s super-G event during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
Photo: FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT / AFP
New Zealand alpine skiier Alice Robinson’s hopes of securing a medal at the Super Giant Slalom finals have been dashed after a promising start to the season.
The 24-year-old was 14th to take on the slope in a line-up of 35 overnight at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. She placed 8th-equal with France’s Camille Cerutti after both secured a run-time of 1 minute and 24.44 seconds.
Managing to compete the run was an achievement in itself, with 14 other competitors – including favourites like Germany’s Emma Aicher and Italy’s Sofia Goggia – failing to finish.
Italy’s Federica Brignone sealed an astonishing comeback from career-threatening injury to win the gold on home snow.
France’s Romane Miradoli took silver, 0.41 of a second slower, with Austria’s Cornelia Huetter third, according to provisional results.
Known as the “Tiger” for her ferocious determination, Brignone, 35, had looked doubtful for the Games after a crash last April but fought back to fitness and produced one of her greatest runs on a foggy Olimpia delle Tofane piste.
Robinson is competing in her third Olympics, having secured her first career win in the opening event of the season in St Moritz, followed by a second-place finish a week later in Val d’Isère.
She became New Zealand’s youngest-ever Winter Olympian when she attended the 2018 games in South Korea at the age of 16.
– RNZ / Reuters
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