Overview
- In her first race since an April 2025 double leg fracture, Federica Brignone placed sixth at Kronplatz, 1.23 seconds from winner Julia Scheib.
- The 35-year-old said she still experiences daily pain and has logged only about 13 serious training days since returning to snow.
- Brignone will bypass the Spindleruv Mlyn technical races to work on speed in Cortina and decide event entries closer to the Milan–Cortina Games.
- Julia Scheib earned her fourth giant slalom victory of the season and now leads the discipline by 139 points, with Camille Rast second and Sara Hector third.
- Mikaela Shiffrin finished fourth, continuing a steady uptick in giant slalom two years after her last podium in the discipline.