World downhill silver medalist Nina Ortlieb of Austria broke earlier than her proper tibia and fibula in a fall earlier than Friday’s World Cup super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

“Can’t describe how it feels to be so close towards your dreams but suddenly so far away!” was posted on Ortlieb’s social media the following day. “I’ll be out for the season but will keep on fighting.”

Ortlieb, 27, was scheduled to make her season debut on Friday within the marketing campaign’s first pace race. She was quickest in downhill coaching Thursday.

Last February, Ortlieb completed 4 hundredths behind Swiss Jasmine Flury on the planet championships downhill to earn her first senior world medal.

Before that, she went almost two years between World Cup races after blowing out her proper knee in a January 2021 crash, lacking the 2022 Olympics earlier than returning in December 2022. Ortlieb has undergone at the very least 19 surgical procedures in her life, based on the International Ski Federation.

Her father, Patrick, received the 1992 Olympic downhill.

Italian Sofia Goggia received Friday’s super-G, the primary pace race of the season, by 95 hundredths over Austrian Cornelia Hütter. American Mikaela Shiffrin was fourth.

St. Moritz is scheduled to carry a downhill on Saturday and one other super-G on Sunday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.