The victory was celebrated by the American Mikeyla Shiffrin, and it was her 95th victory in the World Cup stages.
In the first race, starting with number 50, Germane covered the track in 54.90 seconds, taking 14th place in the competition of 74 participants and losing 1.89 seconds to the leader Slovakian Petra Vlhova. Vlhova completed the course in 53.01 seconds, 0.07 seconds ahead of Shifrin and 0.52 seconds ahead of Sweden’s Anna Sven Lašoni.
In the second race, in which the top 30 athletes took part, Đermane showed the ninth best time, rising to the eighth place in the sum of both tracks and the winner Shifrin, who achieved the second best result in the second race, losing 2.36 seconds.
Shifrin spent one minute and 49.35 seconds on both tracks, celebrating her 95th victory in the World Cup stages and catching up with Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier Uli Einar Björndalen, who is in third place in the ranking of Olympic skiing sports.
Shifrin was 0.27 seconds ahead of Vlhova and 1.11 seconds ahead of Sweden’s Sara Hektor.
Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin, Lashone, Switzerland’s Kamille Rast and Austria’s Katarina Leinsberger also finished before Germaine.
It was in Flahava that Đermane made her debut in the World Cup a year ago, without finishing on the first track. At the end of the year, she won 22nd place in Linca, but on January 7 in Kraņska Gora, in her third World Cup competition, she reached 12th place – until then the highest in the history of independent Latvian alpine skiing.
During the USSR, only the athlete’s mother Ulla Āermane (at that time – Lodziņa) has been higher in the stages of the World Cup, entering the top fifteen several times and winning the fourth place once.
Over the weekend, the 20-year-old Latvian competed in the European Cup, winning her first two victories in matches of this rank.
