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| Born | (1991-04-27)27 April 1991 (age 34) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disciplines | Downhill,super-G,giant slalom,combined | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SportingGottardo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 28 December2007(age 16) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | laragut.ch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (2014,2018,2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 3 (1 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 9 – (2009–2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 9 (2 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 18 – (2008–2009,2011–2026) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 48 – (24SG, 13DH, 10 GS, 1AC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 101 – (45 SG, 24 DH, 29 GS, 2 AC, 1PG) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 2 – (2016,2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 7 – (SG –2014,2016,2021,2023,2024,2025,GS –2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lara Gut-Behrami (née Gut;Italian pronunciation:[ˈlaːraˈɡut]; born 27 April 1991) is a SwissWorld Cupalpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specializes in the speed events ofdownhill andSuper-G. She won the gold medal inthe super-G event at the2022 Winter Olympics inBeijing. 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,[1] 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.[2]
Gut was born inSorengo,Canton Ticino; her father, Pauli Gut, isSwiss fromAirolo, and her mother, Gabriella Almici, a masseuse, was born inZone, Lombardy.[3] Gut participated in her firstFIS races at age 15 in December 2006. At the Alpine Youth World Championship 2007 atAltenmarkt, 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 theEuropa Cup.
In late December2007, Gut made herWorld Cup debut in agiant slalom atLienz, Austria. In January 2008, atCaspoggio, she won four consecutive Europa Cup races. At her first World Cupdownhill race on 2 February 2008, Gut made the podium in third place atSt. 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 thesuper-G the next day. Following the 2008 season, Gut was moved up to the World Cup team for the2009 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-upFabienne Suter.[4]Gut became the youngest skier to win a World Cupsuper-G race at 17.65 years (17 years, 237 days).[5]
At the2009 World Championships atVal-d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in thedownhill and thesuper combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.
On 29 September 2009, Gut fell during training atSaas-Fee, Switzerland, and dislocated her hip. She was transported by helicopter to a hospital inVisp, where it was reset. The Swiss Ski Federation initially reported that Gut would be out of competition for at least a month.[6] In January 2010, it was announced that Gut would miss the2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver because of a slow recovery from a hip injury.[7]She sat out the entire2010 season but returned for the2011 season and earned four podiums, which included a victory in the super-G atAltenmarkt-Zauchensee in January.
Gut switched ski suppliers following the 2011 season, leavingAtomic for a three-year deal withRossignol.[8] Though she had seven top-ten finishes in three disciplines during the2012 World Cup season, she did not reach a podium; her best results were three top-five finishes.
In December2012, Gut won her first World Cup downhill inVal-d'Isère, France.[9] She finished ahead of AmericanLeanne Smith (0.16 sec) and fellow Swiss skierNadja Kamer (0.5 sec).
Gut won her first Olympic medal in thedownhill in2014 atSochi. She took the bronze, finishing 0.10 seconds behindTina Maze and fellow Swiss skierDominique Gisin, who both won the gold.[10] In World Cup, she won the super-G season title and finished third overall in2014.
After four years with Rossignol, Gut changed toHead equipment in May 2015.[11]
At the World Championships in2017 on home country snow in St. Moritz, Gut won bronze in thesuper-G. In the next event, thecombined, she injured her left knee (ACL,meniscus) between runs, which ended her season.[12]
In February2020, Gut won her first race in over two years, the World Cup downhill inCrans-Montana, Switzerland.[13]
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 withPetra 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[14] 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 ChampionMikaela 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.[15] 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 the2025 World Championships inSaalbach-Hinterglemm she won a silver medal in the inaugural version of the team combined, in the pair withWendy Holdener.[16] It was her first medal in the combined in 16 years, after the silver inVal-d'Isère.
On 26 June 2025, she announced her retirement following the 2025–2026 season.[17][18][19]
Gut is fluent in Italian, German, French, and English and knows Spanish.[20][21][22]
She married Swissfootball playerValon Behrami in July 2018,[23] and has since competed using thedouble-barrelled name Gut-Behrami.[24]
 | Season |
| Discipline | |
| 2014 | Super-G |
| 2016 | Overall |
| Super-G | |
| 2021 | Super-G |
| 2023 | Super-G |
| 2024 | Overall |
| Giant Slalom | |
| Super-G | |
| 2025 | Super-G |
| Season | |||||||
| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
| 2008 | 16 | 54 | — | — | 26 | 30 | — |
| 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 | 3 | — | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 2015 | 23 | 9 | — | 24 | 5 | 6 | — |
| 2016 | 24 | 1 | 43 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4 | 57 | 5 | 3 | 3 | — |
| 2018 | 26 | 12 | — | 23 | 2 | 10 | 24 |
| 2019 | 27 | 21 | — | 26 | 7 | 18 | — |
| 2020 | 28 | 7 | — | 14 | 4 | 4 | — |
| 2021 | 29 | 2 | — | 7 | 1 | 3 | — |
| 2022 | 30 | 11 | — | 13 | 6 | 15 | |
| 2023 | 31 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| 2024 | 32 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 33 | 2 | — | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| 2026 | 34 | 11 | — | 3 | — | — | |
| Total | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| Wins | 48 | 0 | 10 | 24 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Podiums | 100 | 0 | 28 | 45 | 24 | 2 | 1 |
| Season | |||
| Date | Location | Discipline | |
| 2009 | 20 December 2008 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Super-G |
| 2011 | 9 January 2011 |  Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria | Super-G |
| 2013 | 14 December 2012 |  Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill |
| 2014 7 victories (4 SG, 2 DH, 1 GS) | 26 October 2013 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom |
| 29 November 2013 |  Beaver Creek, USA | Downhill | |
| 30 November 2013 | Super-G | ||
| 8 December 2013 |  Lake Louise, Canada | Super-G | |
| 26 January 2014 |  Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Super-G | |
| 12 March 2014 | Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Downhill | |
| 13 March 2014 | Super-G | ||
| 2015 | 7 December 2014 | Lake Louise, Canada | Super-G |
| 24 January 2015 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Downhill | |
| 2016 6 victories (1 SG, 2 DH, 2 GS, 1 AC) | 27 November 2015 | Aspen, USA | Giant slalom |
| 18 December 2015 | Val-d'Isère, France | Combined | |
| 19 December 2015 | Downhill | ||
| 28 December 2015 | Lienz, Austria | Giant slalom | |
| 7 February 2016 |  Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Super-G | |
| 19 February 2016 | La Thuile, Italy | Downhill | |
| 2017 5 victories (3 SG, 1 DH, 1 GS) | 22 October 2016 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom |
| 4 December 2016 | Lake Louise, Canada | Super-G | |
| 18 December 2016 | Val d'Isère, France | Super-G | |
| 22 January 2017 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Super-G | |
| 28 January 2017 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | |
| 2018 | 21 January 2018 | Super-G | |
| 2020 | 21 February 2020 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Downhill |
| 22 February 2020 | Downhill | ||
| 2021 6 victories (4 SG, 2 DH) | 10 January 2021 | St. Anton, Austria | Super-G |
| 24 January 2021 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Super-G | |
| 30 January 2021 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Super-G | |
| 1 February 2021 | Super-G | ||
| 26 February 2021 | Val di Fassa, Italy | Downhill | |
| 27 February 2021 | Downhill | ||
| 2022 | 11 December 2021 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Super-G |
| 15 January 2022 | Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria | Downhill | |
| 2023 | 26 November 2022 | Killington, USA | Giant slalom |
| 15 January 2023 | St. Anton, Austria | Super-G | |
| 16 March 2023 |  Soldeu, Andorra | Super-G | |
| 2024 8 victories (3 SG, 1 DH, 4 GS) | 28 October 2023 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom |
| 25 November 2023 | Killington, USA | Giant slalom | |
| 14 January 2024 | Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria | Super-G | |
| 28 January 2024 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Super-G | |
| 30 January 2024 | Kronplatz, Italy | Giant slalom | |
| 10 February 2024 | Soldeu, Andorra | Giant slalom | |
| 16 February 2024 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Downhill | |
| 2 March 2024 |  Kvitfjell, Norway | Super-G | |
| 2025 | 26 January 2025 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Super-G |
| 23 March 2025 | Sun Valley, USA | Super-G | |
| 25 March 2025 | Giant slalom |
| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team Combined | |
| 2009 | 17 | — | DNF1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 9 | DNS SL | |
| 2025 | 33 | — | 5 | 8 | DNF | — | 2 |
| Year | ||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
| 2010 | 18 | injured: did not compete | ||||
| 2014 | 22 | — | 9 | 4 | 3 | DNF SL |
| 2018 | 26 | — | DNF1 | 4 | DNF | — |
| 2022 | 30 | — | 3 | 1 | 16 | — |
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