Alpine skiing-Italian Brignone leads after combined first leg

Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women's Alpine Combined - Meribel, France - February 6, 2023 Italy's Federica Brignone in action during the Super-G REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel

(Reuters) - Italy's Federica Brignone built a comfortable lead in the speed leg of the women's combined event at the World Ski Championships in Meribel, France on Monday.

Brignone completed the super-G in 1:10.28, 0.71 seconds quicker than Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami and Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel who were joint second fastest.