Italy's Federica Brignone and New Zealand's Alice Robinson ran away from the field Thursday with Moltzan sneaking into the No. 3 spot.

Paula Moltzan knows the feeling all too well. Already at this year's Alpine skiing world championships, she was on the U.S. squad that finished fourth in the mixed team parallel event. Then she couldn’t hold on to the lead that partner Lauren Macuga had set up in the downhill portion of the new team combined event and ended up fourth with her slalom run.