Lara Gut-Behrami Announces Her Retirement

Raúl Revuelta
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Lara Gut-Behrami. Alpine Ski World Cup — Lara Gut-Behrami. Picture: Ski Paradise

After a long period of uncertainty, Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami announced her retirement today.

"I have been fortunate and honored to experience a very long career, to be able to express my dreams and wishes through skiing, and to experience this journey alongside exceptional people," Gut-Behrami said in a video message.

She is happy to make this decision of her own free will. "Despite almost 20 years of top-level sport, despite falls and injuries, I have no recurring pain and don't want any. That's also why I feel the time is right – the moment when I no longer have to insist at all costs on reaching and exceeding my limits."

She had originally announced the 2025-2026 winter season as his farewell year, but then suffered in November 2025 a complicated injury to her left knee during a training run and left his return open.

Lara Gut-Behrami is a Swiss alpine ski racer celebrated for her remarkable achievements in the sport and her exceptional talent, having forged her own path. She was a true overall skier this season, as her victories came in four disciplines: Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, and Alpine Combined.

She has won a total of eight medals at the World Championships, including two gold, three silver, and three bronze. Additionally, she earned bronze medals at both the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where she also claimed the gold medal in the Super-G event.

In the Alpine Ski World Cup, Gut-Behrami's star rose on February 2, 2008. At 16 years old, she surprisingly finished 3rd in the downhill race in St. Moritz – even though she crashed before the finish line.

She has secured the overall title twice, in the 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 winter seasons. She has also won the Super-G title six times and the Giant Slalom title once. Notably, in 2008, at just 17 years old, she became the youngest winner of a Super-G World Cup race.

With her Sun Valley victory in the Giant Slalom in 2025, she became the first woman to do the Alpine Skiing 'triple-double' – 10+ World Cup wins in three disciplines (10 GS, 13 DH, and 24 SG). Hermann Maier (24 SG, 15 DH, 14 GS) and Pirmin Zurbriggen (11 combined, 10 DH, 10 SG) are the only men to have done it.

In the 2023-2024 winter season, the skier from Ticino won the Overall, Super-G, and Giant Slalom titles. Gut-Behrami was the first Swiss woman to win three different World Cup classifications in a single season since Vreni Schneider won the Slalom, Giant Slalom, and Overall World Cup in 1994-1995.

Since the 2012-2013 winter season, the 35-year-old Swiss skier has secured at least one race win in every season except for 2018-2019. She has claimed 48 World Cup race victories and is in fifth place on the all-time women's list. The only four women with more World Cup wins than her are some of the biggest legends in Alpine skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin (101), Lindsey Vonn (82), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (62), and Vreni Schneider (55).

Gut-Behrami has 101 Alpine Ski World Cup podiums to her name. She became the sixth woman to reach 100 World Cup podiums after Mikaela Shiffrin (157), Lindsey Vonn (138), Annemarie Proell (114), Renate Goetschl (110), and Vreni Schneider (101).