Ledecká fourth in Super-G World Cup event in best result since return

Czechia’s Ester Ledecká placed fourth in a super giant slalom World Cup event in Kvitfjell, Norway on Saturday, recording her best result since returning from a collarbone injury sustained in 2022.

The 2018 Super-G Olympic champion in recorded a virtually identical time to Germany’s Kira Weidle, and only 16 hundredths of a second separated her from the podium.

The winner, Switzerland’s Lara Gutova-Behrami, finished 29 hundredths of a second ahead of Ledecká. The Czech is 13th overall after seven of 10 World Cup events.