From Park City, USA
(December 17, 2022) – Dajana Eitberger won her first World Cup gold medal of the season, and first since the 2020/2021 season, in Park City.
Eitberger carried a lead over teammate Julia Taubitz and USA’s Emily Sweeney into the second heat, with all three women well within a tenth of a second of each other.
On the second run Sweeney was quick, quick enough to leapfrog Taubitz to hang onto the lead with only Eitberger to go. Eitberger answered Sweeney’s challenge with the quickest start off the top and the fastest split of the day at every timing line all the way to the finish for her first podium and first gold of the 2022/2023 season.
The gold for Eitberger was the eighth of her career and first since the 2020/2021 race in Oberhof.
Sweeney won silver, her third in four races, while Taubitz won bronze, her fourth straight medal.
Germany’s Anna Berreiter finished fourth, ahead of Austria’s Lisa Schulte in fifth. Madeleine Egle finished sixth, her first non-win of the season.
The United States put three women in the top ten. Brittney Arndt scored a career-best finish in seventh, while Ashley Farquharson finished ninth. Summer Britcher never totally got in her groove in Park City’s World Cup race and finished 12th.
Canada was led by Trinity Ellis in 19th. She finished two spots ahead of Carolyn Maxwell in 21st, with Caitlin Nash finishing one spot back in 22nd.
With the Sprint World Cup still to go in Park City, Egle holds a 55 point lead over Taubitz, with Sweeney only four points behind Taubitz. Eitberger’s win catapults her to fourth, with Merle Fräbel and Anna Berreiter tied for fifth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Dajana Eitberger | GER | 23 | 3.140 | 3.126 | 43.269 | 43.202 | 1:26.471 |
| 2 | Emily Sweeney | USA | 25 | 3.146 | 3.130 | 43.345 | 43.266 | 1:26.611 |
| 3 | Julia Taubitz | GER | 31 | 3.125 | 3.131 | 43.333 | 43.286 | 1:26.619 |
| 4 | Anna Berreiter | GER | 27 | 3.136 | 3.133 | 43.508 | 43.415 | 1:26.923 |
| 5 | Lisa Schulte | AUT | 17 | 3.167 | 3.170 | 43.549 | 43.532 | 1:27.081 |
| 6 | Madeleine Egle | AUT | 28 | 3.158 | 3.139 | 43.615 | 43.474 | 1:27.089 |
| 7 | Brittney Arndt | USA | 18 | 3.183 | 3.187 | 43.572 | 43.545 | 1:27.117 |
| 8 | Andrea Vötter | ITA | 30 | 3.160 | 3.149 | 43.642 | 43.496 | 1:27.138 |
| 9 | Ashley Farquharson | USA | 16 | 3.169 | 3.167 | 43.556 | 43.610 | 1:27.166 |
| 10 | Sandra Robatscher | ITA | 14 | 3.174 | 3.189 | 43.629 | 43.559 | 1:27.188 |
| 11 | Merle Fräbel | GER | 26 | 3.149 | 3.144 | 43.653 | 43.579 | 1:27.232 |
| 12 | Summer Britcher | USA | 24 | 3.153 | 3.153 | 43.696 | 43.549 | 1:27.245 |
| 13 | Elina Vitola | LAT | 29 | 3.138 | 3.139 | 43.695 | 43.598 | 1:27.293 |
| 14 | Natalie Maag | SUI | 21 | 3.188 | 3.193 | 43.790 | 43.630 | 1:27.420 |
| 15 | Nina Zöggeler | ITA | 15 | 3.195 | 3.194 | 43.715 | 43.761 | 1:27.476 |
| 16 | Kendija Aparjode | LAT | 12 | 3.166 | 3.163 | 43.778 | 43.782 | 1:27.560 |
| 17 | Marion Oberhofer | ITA | 10 | 3.190 | 3.190 | 43.851 | 43.793 | 1:27.644 |
| 18 | Sigita Berzina | LAT | 13 | 3.142 | 3.135 | 43.822 | 43.836 | 1:27.658 |
| 19 | Trinity Ellis | CAN | 11 | 3.190 | 3.185 | 43.892 | 43.817 | 1:27.709 |
| 20 | Hannah Prock | AUT | 22 | 3.187 | 3.177 | 43.802 | 44.053 | 1:27.855 |
| 21 | Carolyn Maxwell | CAN | 9 | 3.168 | 3.164 | 43.988 | 43.908 | 1:27.896 |
| 22 | Caitlin Nash | CAN | 2 | 3.186 | 3.187 | 43.905 | 44.302 | 1:28.207 |
| 23 | Veronica Ravenna | ARG | 20 | 3.267 | 3.265 | 44.139 | 44.088 | 1:28.227 |
| 24 | Raluca Stramaturaru | ROU | 5 | 3.193 | 3.183 | 44.256 | 44.259 | 1:28.515 |
| 25 | Klaudia Domaradzka | POL | 6 | 3.170 | 3.180 | 44.265 | 44.361 | 1:28.626 |
| 26 | Hyesun Jung | KOR | 7 | 3.215 | 3.182 | 44.247 | 44.418 | 1:28.665 |
| 27 | Natalie Jamroz | POL | 3 | 3.226 | 3.246 | 44.428 | 44.595 | 1:29.023 |
| 28 | Sin-Rong Lin | TPE | 19 | 3.204 | 3.219 | 44.424 | 44.843 | 1:29.267 |
| 29 | Elsa Desmond | IRL | 1 | 3.262 | 3.276 | 45.599 | 45.365 | 1:30.964 |
| DNS | Selina Egle | AUT | 8 | DNS |
