Queenstown’s Alice Robinson finished in fourth place in the Giant Slalom at the FIS Ski World Championships in Italy overnight, the best result of her career at a Ski World Championships event.  

Alice was in sixth place after her first run +0.51 seconds behind run one leader Mikaela Shiffrin (USA).

After an aggressive second run Alice was in top spot with five athletes to go.  

Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI), Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) and Katharina Liensberger (AUT) put down fast second runs, taking the gold, silver and bronze medals respectively and bumping Alice off the podium into fourth position, +0.73 seconds behind winner Gut-Behrami.

“Obviously it hasn’t been an easy season for me and I wanted to give it my all today, and I really tried my best. Sometimes when you’re pushing it, you make some mistakes, and that’s kind of what I had on the second run, but I’m pretty proud of getting out there and full attacking as much as I could,” Alice said at the Cortina press conference.

Wanaka based Piera Hudson also competed in the Giant Slalom and was looking strong out of the start gate with some respectable split times but came unstuck just gates from the finish and received a DNF (did not finish).  

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held once every two years. Up next for the Kiwi team at the Alpine World Championships is the men’s Giant Slalom tonight (Friday) at 10pm NZT with Willis Feasey in the start gate.  

Full results here.

PHOTO: Enrica Cipriana