Corinne Suter won the season-opening women's World Cup downhill race Friday and Nicole Schmidhofer was injured in a high-speed crash that sent her through the safety fencing. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMAustrian women's team head coach Christian Mitter said Schmidhofer hurt her left knee and had abrasions on her face. Schmidhofer, the 2018-19 downhill champion and 2017 super-G world champion, was one of four skiers to get in trouble on the course, where visibility was a problem because of alternating shadow and sunny spots. Having started before the incident happened, Suter edged Sofia Goggia by 0.11 seconds for her second career win. Last season, Suter became the first skier to win both the downhill and super-G titles in the same season since American great Lindsey Vonn achieved the feat in 2015-16.

Source: Fox News December 18, 2020 16:18 UTC