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Nina O’Brien added to her career nationals haul and Laurenne Ross again said goodbye as the U.S. Alpine Championships got back to racing with the women’s super-G on Tuesday at Aspen Highlands.
O’Brien, a native Californian, took the super-G national championship with a time of 1 minute, 15.78 seconds, nearly a full second ahead of runner-up Hannah Saethereng of Norway. Former University of Denver ski racer Storm Klomhaus was third, a full 1.13 back of O’Brien.
More of a technical specialist, the 23-year-old O’Brien was competing in her first super-G since the 2019 nationals. She avoided any rust to win her eighth career national championship.
O’Brien takes home 8th national title as Ross takes final lap
Women’s Super G
2021 U.S. Alpine Championships at Aspen Highlands
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Despite the fact that weather pushed the slalom portion of the U.S. Alpine Championship alpine combined to Wednesday, organizers were able to get off a successful super-G and U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Nina O’Brien walked away with the win, and her career-eighth national title on Tuesday.
Fresh off her career-best FIS Ski World Cup season, featuring five top-10 results in giant slalom and slalom, highlighted by a career-best ninth-place finish in a World Cup slalom in Semmering, Austria, and a top-10 result (and the second-fastest first run) in the giant slalom at World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, O’Brien was a clear favorite across disciplines and kicked off her U.S. Alpine Championships week with a win in Tuesday’s super-G. This wasn’t the first national title she’s won in 2020-21 though, as she snag
Westminster leads RMISA champs; Utah prevails in overall
Slalom champion Bjorn Brudevoll. Photo courtesy of University of Utah
After the RMISA regular season came to a close, teams remained in Utah for a week of training prior to the RMISA championships at Park City Mountain Resort. Westminster took the win for the alpine team in the regional championship race, while solid skiing and career-first podiums were shared across teams.
Giant slalom
Following the postponement of the final RMISA men’s GS race due to unsafe conditions, the men competed first on the morning of Feb. 18. The early morning competition wasn’t a FIS-U or USSA race, but would count as an official RMISA race to be used in the RMISA team standings and NCAA qualification.
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