Lara Gut-Behrami (; ; born 27 April 1991) is a retired Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who competed in all disciplines and specialized in the speed events of downhill and Super-G. She won the gold medal in the super-G event at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. With 48 World Cup victories to her name across 3 disciplines, she is one of the all-time greats in Alpine skiing history. She is the first woman with at least ten World Cup victories in three different disciplines. With six Super-G globes, which is an overall record, 24 World Cup victories and both an olympic and world championships gold medal, she can be considered the most successful alpine skier in Super-G of all time.
Career
Gut was born in Sorengo, Ticino; her father, Pauli Gut, is Swiss from Airolo, and her mother, Gabriella Almici, a masseuse, was born in Zone, Lombardy. Gut participated in her first FIS races at age 15 in December 2006. At the Alpine Youth World Championship 2007 at Altenmarkt, Austria, she won silver in downhill. In the same year, she became the Swiss national champion in super-G, the second youngest champion of all time. In the 2007 season, Gut finished second in the downhill standings of the Europa Cup.
In late December 2007, Gut made her World Cup debut in a giant slalom at Lienz, Austria. In January 2008, at Caspoggio, she won four consecutive Europa Cup races. At her first World Cup downhill race on 2 February 2008, Gut made the podium in third place at St. Moritz, despite falling on the finishing pitch and sliding on her back through the finish line, she finished only 0.35 seconds behind the winner. She followed her World Cup speed debut with a fifth-place finish in the super-G the next day. Following the 2008 season, Gut was moved up to the World Cup team for the 2009 season.
Early in her first full season, Gut won her first World Cup race on 20 December 2008, a super-G in St. Moritz, finishing 0.63 seconds ahead of runner-up Fabienne Suter. Gut became the youngest skier to win a World Cup super-G race at 17.65 years (17 years, 237 days).
At the 2009 World Championships at Val-d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the downhill and the super combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.
On 29 September 2009, Gut fell during training at Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and dislocated her hip. She was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Visp, where it was reset. The Swiss Ski Federation initially reported that Gut would be out of competition for at least a month.Skionline.ch In January 2010, it was announced that Gut would miss the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver because of a slow recovery from a hip injury. She sat out the entire 2010 season but returned for the 2011 season and earned four podiums, which included a victory in the super-G at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in January.
Gut switched ski suppliers following the 2011 season, leaving Atomic for a three-year deal with Rossignol.Ski Racing.com – Swiss star Lara Gut moves to Rossignol equipment – 6 April 2011. Though she had seven top-ten finishes in three disciplines during the 2012 World Cup season, she did not reach a podium; her best results were three top-five finishes.
In December 2012, Gut won her first World Cup downhill in Val-d'Isère, France. She finished ahead of American Leanne Smith (0.16 sec) and fellow Swiss skier Nadja Kamer (0.5 sec).
Gut won her first Olympic medal in the downhill in 2014 at Sochi. She took the bronze, finishing 0.10 seconds behind Tina Maze and fellow Swiss skier Dominique Gisin, who both won the gold. In World Cup, she won the super-G season title and finished third overall in 2014.
After four years with Rossignol, Gut changed to Head equipment in May 2015.
At the World Championships in 2017 on home country snow in St. Moritz, Gut won bronze in the super-G. In the next event, the combined, she injured her left knee (ACL, meniscus) between runs, which ended her season.
In February 2020, Gut won her first race in over two years, the World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
In the 2020–2021 season, she had one of the most successful showings of her career thus far, winning four consecutive Super-G races on the World Cup while also entering a close battle for the overall lead with Petra Vlhová. She continued her successful season at the World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo. In the super-G, she delivered on the promise displayed on the World Cup, winning her first world title and bronze in the downhill. With only a single giant slalom podium on the World Cup that season, she became somewhat of a surprise winner in the giant slalom, with reigning Olympic Champion Mikaela Shiffrin having two strong runs and many of the top performers from the World Cup displaying poor performances; however, Gut-Behrami still prevailed to win the giant slalom by .02 in what was the closest giant slalom in world championship history. She became the second Swiss woman to win two golds in a single championship and the first in 34 years following Erika Hess’ strong showing in 1987.
In the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm she won a silver medal in the inaugural version of the team combined, in the pair with Wendy Holdener. It was her first medal in the combined in 16 years, after the silver in Val-d'Isère.
On 26 June 2025, she announced her retirement following the 2025–2026 season, however an early season knee injury during training has caused her to miss the rest of the season.
On 5 August 2026, she announced on RSI that she was ending her career with immediate effect, following the knee injury that had ended her hopes of competing in one final Olympic season. In her farewell interview, she reflected on her nearly two decades at the highest level of competition, describing her relationship with skiing as defined by freedom on the mountain and expressing profound happiness about her career.
Personal life Gut is fluent in Italian, German, French, and English and knows Spanish.
She married Swiss football player Valon Behrami in July 2018, and has since competed using the double-barrelled name Gut-Behrami.GUT-BEHRAMI Lara
World Cup results Season titles 9 titles – (2 Overall, 6 Super-G, 1 Giant Slalom) SeasonDiscipline 2014 Super-G2016 Overall Super-G 2021 Super-G2023Super-G2024 OverallGiant SlalomSuper-G2025Super-G
Season standings SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedParallel 2008 16 54 — — 26 30 — rowspan=12 2009 17 11 45 9 11 12 16 2010 18 injured in September: out for entire season 2011 19 10 — 28 4 7 30 2012 20 14 — 17 8 18 30 2013 21 9 — 6 10 5 4 2014 22 — 4 6 15 2015 23 9 — 24 5 6 — 2016 24 43 4 2017 25 4 57 5 — 2018 26 12 — 23 10 24 2019 27 21 — 26 7 18 — 2020 28 7 — 14 4 4 — 23 2021 29 — 7 rowspan=9 2022 30 11 — 13 6 15 15 2023 31 — 6 rowspan=4 2024 32 — 2025 33 — 6 5 2026 34 80 — 29 — —
Race victories TotalSlalomGiant slalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedParallel Wins 48010241310 Podiums 101029452421 Season Date Location Discipline200920 December 2008 St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G20119 January 2011 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Super-G201314 December 2012 Val-d'Isère, France Downhill20147 victories(4 SG, 2 DH,1 GS)26 October 2013 Sölden, Austria Giant slalom29 November 2013 Beaver Creek, United States Downhill30 November 2013 Super-G8 December 2013 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G26 January 2014 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G12 March 2014 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Downhill13 March 2014 Super-G20157 December 2014 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G24 January 2015 St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill20166 victories(1 SG, 2 DH,2 GS, 1 AC)27 November 2015 Aspen, United States Giant slalom18 December 2015 Val-d'Isère, France Combined19 December 2015 Downhill28 December 2015 Lienz, Austria Giant slalom7 February 2016 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G19 February 2016 La Thuile, Italy Downhill20175 victories(3 SG, 1 DH,1 GS)22 October 2016 Sölden, Austria Giant slalom4 December 2016 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G18 December 2016 Val d'Isère, France Super-G22 January 2017 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G28 January 2017 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill201821 January 2018 Super-G202021 February 2020 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill22 February 2020 Downhill20216 victories(4 SG, 2 DH)10 January 2021 St. Anton, Austria Super-G24 January 2021 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Super-G30 January 2021 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G1 February 2021 Super-G26 February 2021 Val di Fassa, Italy Downhill27 February 2021 Downhill202211 December 2021 St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G15 January 2022 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Downhill202326 November 2022 Killington, United States Giant slalom15 January 2023 St. Anton, Austria Super-G16 March 2023 Soldeu, Andorra Super-G20248 victories(3 SG, 1 DH,4 GS)28 October 2023 Sölden, Austria Giant slalom25 November 2023 Killington, United States Giant slalom14 January 2024 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Super-G28 January 2024 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G30 January 2024 Kronplatz, Italy Giant slalom10 February 2024 Soldeu, Andorra Giant slalom16 February 2024 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill2 March 2024 Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G202526 January 2025 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G23 March 2025 Sun Valley, United States Super-G25 March 2025 Giant slalom
World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedTeamcombined 2009 17 — DNF1 7 2 2 rowspan=8 2011 19 — 20 4 4 DNF SL 2013 21 — 7 2 16 DNF SL 2015 23 — DNF1 7 3 5 2017 25 — — 3 — DNS SL 2019 27 — 21 9 8 DNS SL 2021 29 — 1 1 3 — 2023 31— 4 69 DNS SL 2025 33 — 5 8 DNF 2 Injured between runs of Combined event in 2017
Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombined 2014 22 — 9 4 3 DNF SL 2018 26 — DNF1 4 DNF —2022 30 — 3 1 16 —
References
External links
Lara Gut-Behrami at the Swiss Olympic Association Lara Gut-Behrami at the Swiss Ski Team