ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Two-time Olympic champion Michelle Gisin was undergoing surgery on her back Thursday, having been airlifted from the course by helicopter after crashing hard in a practice run for a World Cup downhill.

Gisin is the third current Olympic champion in the Switzerland women’s Alpine ski team to be injured crashing in training in the last month, after Lara Gut-Behrami and Corinne Suter, just weeks before the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

The 32-year-old Swiss hit the safety fences racing at more than 110 k.p.h. (69 m.p.h.) on a cloudy morning at St. Moritz in practice for downhills scheduled Friday and Saturday, then a super-G Sunday.

Gisin “can move her arms and legs normally,” the Swiss ski team said in a statement, but also has injuries to her right wrist and left

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