Kiwi skier Alice Robinson has produced her best performance on the World Cup Super G circuit finishing 10th in her final race of the season in the discipline in Val di Fassa in Italy.
The 19-year-old whose previous best was 21st in this her debut season in the speed skitest, only started in bib 41 but completed a sizzling run to clock a time of 1{16.15 which was just 1.54 seconds slower than Italian winner Federica Brignone.
"Top 10 is really great; Super G - I have really been trying hard to get in there this season. To finish it off with a top 10 is great, especially from my bib number 41. It's a great position for me to be in for next season so I am really, really happy," Robinson said.
The young Kiwi has made a name for herself as a Giant Slalom specialist and is already among the top echelon in GS having finished fourth at last month's World Championships in Cortina after winning two of the six completed World Cup races last season. But her Super G development hasn't progressed as quickly as she would have liked.
Robinson has finished the Super G season in 31st place overall but this result will have her believing she can compete with the best next season with the pinnacle event, the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022 the big target.
Robinson's Kiwi co-coach Chris Knight says they are super happy with the result.
"It was a hill we had trained on a few times so there is some familiarity with the course and setting and it was a good technical hill and her skiing skills come to the fore on a course like that," Knight told NZME.
"We were hopeful that she could find the right combination of risk taking and good skiing and that's what happened, and it was just a really good performance and we are super psyched. It bodes well for the last two races of the season."
Those two races are Giant Slalom's in Jasna in Slovakia this weekend and then the World Cup Finals in Lenzerheide in Switzerland later this month.
While Robinson is 16th in the GS World Cup standings with two 9th places her best results on the circuit, the fourth at the World Championships will have her feeling confident of challenging for the podium as her season draws to a close.
