Alpine skiing-Aicher and Robinson put pressure on super-G leader Goggia


Feb 28 (Reuters) - Germany's ⁠Emma Aicher won a women's super-G in ⁠Andorra on Saturday, with New Zealand's Alice ‌Robinson second to put pressure on Italy's Sofia Goggia at the top of the World Cup Alpine ski ​standings in the discipline.

The victory ⁠in the first super-G ⁠since the Winter Olympics was the third of ⁠the ‌season for Aicher, a double silver medallist in Cortina, and her second ⁠in super-G.

Robinson was 0.88 slower and Switzerland's ​Corinne Suter, ‌winner of a downhill on Friday in ⁠Soldeu, was ​third.

Goggia, who finished sixth, stayed top of the standings but now only 20 points clear of ⁠Robinson with three races remaining.

Aicher moved ​up to third but with 96 points to make up on the Italian and another super-G ⁠scheduled for Sunday.

The race was halted briefly after Austrian Ricarda Haaser suffered a nasty crash and was taken off the slope on a ​stretcher.

American Lindsey Vonn, absent ⁠and out of action for the long-term after ​breaking her leg in an ‌Olympic downhill crash, dropped to ​fourth in the standings.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ed Osmond)

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