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Lara Gut-Behrami Ends Elite Skiing Career

She said she will not attempt a comeback from a complex November 2025 knee injury to protect her long-term health.

Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women's Giant Slalom - Soelden, Austria - October 25, 2025 Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami reacts after her second run REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
Swiss skier Lara Gut Behrami with her second overall World Cup Crystal Globe

Overview

  • Gut-Behrami announced on Wednesday that she is retiring from competitive Alpine skiing and will not return from the injury that sidelined her last season.
  • She suffered the damage during a training crash at Copper Mountain, Colorado, on Nov. 20, 2025, when she ruptured ligaments in her left knee and tore the meniscus.
  • Across an 18-year World Cup career she won 48 races, reached 101 World Cup podiums, claimed Olympic super-G gold in 2022, and took overall World Cup titles in 2016 and 2024.
  • Gut-Behrami said she has not developed recurring pain after years of crashes and that she does not want to risk chronic problems by forcing a comeback, a decision that superseded her earlier plan to retire after the 2025–26 Olympic season.
  • Her retirement ends the run of Switzerland’s leading speed specialist and clears the way for a life focused on family and a likely move to England where her husband works, while Swiss Ski now faces the task of replacing a top medal contender.