Alice Robinson is hitting her stride ahead of next year's Winter Olympics with the Kiwi alpine ski racer securing a career-best result in Super-G at the World Cup in Switzerland.
Robinson, the youngest in the field, finished fourth in the field at St Moritz but was just 0.09 seconds outside a place on the podium.
The 20-year-old had her very first run on the slope on Saturday, finishing in 24th place 3.02s behind race winner and current world champion Lara Gut-Behrami (Switzerland).
“It was a tough race, my first time skiing down the track,” she said after the race.
“It’s a difficult slope with lots of terrain and rolls and it was also quite flat light, but I had some good sections and a couple of decent size mistakes, so a lot of room for improvement.”
Kiwi skier Alice Robinson had a career-best finish at the World Cup with Beijing not too far away. (Source: 1News)
Robinson managed to take some knowledge from the experience though and returned Sunday to finish just 0.52s behind Italian race winner Federica Brignone thanks in large part to a fast top section.
Fellow Italian Elena Curtoni finished second with USA's Mikaela Shiffrin claiming her second bronze medal for the weekend.
Robinson's previous best finish in the Super-G was 10th last February.
The result adds to her impressive pair of World Cup wins and a second-place finish in her favoured discipline of Giant Slalom last season.
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