Alpine skiing-Italy's Brignone wins World Cup giant slalom at Mont Tremblant

Dec 2, 2023; Mont Tremblant, Quebec, CAN; Federica Brignone of Italy celebrates her third place finish in the giant slalom race in the women's alpine skiing World Cup at Mont Tremblant. Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports

(Reuters) - Italy's Federica Brignone became the oldest woman to win a World Cup giant slalom event with her triumph on Saturday at Mont Tremblant, Quebec where Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami was unable to extend her perfect start to the season in the discipline.

Olympic silver medallist Brignone, who finished sixth in the giant slalom last week at Killington, led after the first run and went on to win by 21 hundredths of a second over Petra Vlhova with a total time of two minutes 14.95 seconds.